A Call With Tommy.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 426, 7 December 1889, Page 6

A Call With Tommy.

As a reward for ha\ ing been a good boy for nearly an hour, Mrs Whyte took her little son Tommy with her the. other afternoon when she went to return a call she had long owed Mrs (Greene. Mrs Greene had a little boy of about Tommy's age, but ho was by no means a boy so fertile in expedients when it came to gettinjj into mischief and making other people miserable Little Hal Greene was oufc when the callers first arrived. Mr 3 Whyte said : — - • Oh, Mrs Greene, I'm very glad to see jou. I have intended calling this long time, but really could not sooner. I hope you'll excuse me for bringing my little Tommy with me, he ' 1 Why,' certainly/ cried Mrs Greene. ' I'm delighted to see you both. It seems so much less formal to have you just run in this way with your little boy. How do you do, my littlo man ?' ' Shake hands with the lady, Tommy.' ' Don't want to,' says Tommy, hanging back. 1 Why, Tommy, I'm ashamed of you. Go and speak to the lady.' ' I don't want to." 1 You're not afraid of me, are you, my dear ?' say Mrs Greene. • How do you do this winter, ' Mrs Greene?'said Mrs Whyte. * I hear that — Tommy, let that book alone.' ' He won't hurt the book, I'm quite well — and be careful, little boy, that email table upsets very easily.' 4 Tommy ! Go away from that tab'e ; yes, I heard that you had been quite ill, and Tommy, Tommy, put that vase down.' ' I was sick -but I' wouldn't rock so far back in that chair, little boy, it tips over easily.' 'Tommy, get out of that chair. Yes, I knew that you — Tommy, stop drumming on that piano.' ' Yos, I was afraid at first that — I wouldn't try to close that screen, dear, it will fall on yon.' • Why,: Tommy, what are- you doing ? Don't touch that screen again. M atom a is bo ashamed of you. .Did you really have a touch of typhoid fever? 1 heard. — Tommy Whyte, what are, -you doing pulling that, table drawer out 9 Let it alone. I had" typhoid fever once, and — Tommy Whyte, what do you mean by standing on that plush chair with your dirty boots ? Get right down. There, over goes the chair. I declare I — as I was saying, Mrs Greene, when 1 was pick, 1 don't whirl around so on that piano stool, Tommy.' •Master Hal hero appears, and the fun begins in earnest. Their Modoc-like performances bring the call to a speedy termination, and the ladies part, each agreeing that the other's *boy ig the ' very worst youngster that ever lived and breathed.'