AN UNGRATEFUL SON.
■ • *'I kifew I'd bring np here later or sooner," he said to the captain at the central station yesterday as an officer walked him in. He was mud from head to heel, he limped on his left.leg, and the offer of a cent would have sent him crying like a lost child. " What's the matter with you ?" asked the captain. " Nothing," only if you hare got any grim-faced death around here, you can bring it on as soon as you please ! I'm broke up, cleaned out and ready, to become a cherub." There was silence as the blotter was brought out and a pen hunted up, and when they asked his name he wailed out: "Pat him down as Abraham Lyons, deceased, for I don't want to life any longer. I never expected to lire to hare a son liko Daniel go back on me this way." ." What's the matterVith Daniel ?" "Gentleman," he replied, as he laid a hand ornamented with seven warls on the desk, " I'm a widerer, and Daniel is my ta^ML^on. Last night I was to have been cutest, chunkiest, sassiest^
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4862, 9 August 1884, Page 4
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187AN UNGRATEFUL SON. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4862, 9 August 1884, Page 4
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