THE PADRE'S STORY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 41, 18 February 1916, Page 8

THE PADRE'S STORY.

"One night,",.said tlie Padre, "a young soldier came into th e Y.M.C.A. hut. He. had taken enoug-b to make him excited. H. 3 had been in regimental trouble. He came to the counter, and insolently told me to do something. I wanted to tell him that lie had forgotten the word 'please/ but somehow I didn't. He made a more insolent request. I served him without comment. Then -he stared at me, and suddenly he put his hand out. 'Shake!' he said. 'Shake! You Ire all right, you are.' "

"Then I struck in. 'I say, old fel low, rather a pity—what.'

" 'What the hell." he said; and there was a dangerous glint in his eves.

" 'T say.' I wont on, a little anxiously, 'but what about your mother, old bov?'

"It was as though I had bayoneted him. His face was contorted. And then he added, quietly, 'Ave, you're right, man right. What would sue sav. what?' "