BUSTER'S SOUP:

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 16, 10 September 1898, Page 2

BUSTER'S SOUP:

It would have been fine if the meat hadn't escaped., Buster had been making soup. As has been •xplamed in pievious fragmentary biographical sketches anent Buster, he is just a tiiile over 3 years. The other day Buster's mother was busy sewing, and Mary, the cook, was out. Buster had two little girls to stay with him. Like the little gentleman he is, Buster decided he would do the honours properly as host, and so he proposed to make some soup for his guests. He climbed up to the kitchen sink, filled a saucepan with hot water, climbed down again and, with the aid of a chair, put it on the range. Then he hunted around and found lome potatoes, an onion, and some flour. He put these in the pot. Then he put in «a handful of salt, all the pepper in the box — about an ounce — and some bird seed. Then he put in the contents of the sugar bowl. The little girls looked on with undisguised admiration, but presently one said : " Buster, dey ian't any meat in the »oup. I never heard of soup wifout meat in it." Buster looked distressed. He knew the little girl was right, and yet — Suddenly an idea came to him. He jumped from the chair, grabbed the cat and dropped her into the pot. " Dere !" he said. " Meow ! Pht-pht ! Mee-ow-ow-ow ! Pbt-pht!" said the cat. The pot was overturned, and the little girla screamed. Then mamma appeared. " "What in the land of goodness have you been doing ?" she demanded, with some excitement. But Buster was too mortified at the escape of the meat from his soup to do anything but howl and say, " The old soup wouldn't stay souped." — New York World.