WHO PAYS?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 313, 11 January 1908, Page 3

WHO PAYS?

There is always a great controversy* lietwecn eollicrs and their oflii'ials witlfl respect to payment for the removal oN fall-, which take place on the roads leading tn the stalls. In a well-known colliery a collier and his son were working together in a stall, and it so hap|H'ned that the old man had occasion to go hack on '1... road to prepare some timber. \\ li ". hv was enpaged upon this lahoiir th»re came a fall, which, unfortunately, descended on the collier's head and buried him completely. Almut half an hour later the foreman, coming up through the " face," inquired of the hoy where his father was. " He's tiere, under that fall," replied the lad. "Then why Ihe dickens don't you try to get him out?'' exclaimed the foreman. " So I would have done." answered the Ikiv. "but I want to know first who's going to pay me for shifting all this stuff!"

TXSCf.T TO INJURY. It nppened in a village school in Scot- I land. Forty little girls and boys were crammed into two long benches, and I the lesson in progress told of the return of the Prodigal Son. Miss Brown, a spectacled, plain kind of a woman, was relating the story. but frequent interruptions from the end jof the rear bench interfered somewhat with the course of the narratire. "Was it you that I heard whispering, John Walker'" she cried. "Na. miss— " began the youngster innocently. •'Please, miss, he did so!" interrupted Tommy qn'ckly. "He said.' Mis* Brown has got a swecthairt.'" "Xa. miss: T didna!" wept Johnny, screwing his knuckles into his eyes. "I didna say ony such thing! I just said ve had nanel"