A ball came through the window, and the housewife dashed to the door, but the street was deserted. Half an hour later there was a timid knock at the door and the scared voice of a small boy: “Please,, ma’am, here comes my father to mend your window.” Looking up the street she saw a man with a pane of glass approaching, so without any ado she returned the ball and thanked the boy for his honesty. It did not take the glazier long to repair the window. “My charge is four and ninepence,” he said to the housewife. “What!” she exclaimed. “Wasn’t that ,your boy?” “Oh, no, ma’am,” said the glazier, “Afn’t you his mother?”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 3
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