Willie, aged five, had been warned not to eat pastry for supper, but insisted on having a piece nevertheless. The next morning he related a wonderful dream, in which bears had chased him, snakes bad crawled down his back, and a big elephant rolled on him, “ There,” exclaimed his mother. “I told you if you ate pastry for supper you would have bad dreams.”
“ Well, I don’t care,” cried the youngster ; “ it was better than a circus, and I didn’t have to pay to get it.”
• • X AYE like honesty, especially in JL politics an’ tea. Ye can aye get he last when ye buy Hondai Lanka, but its a sair job tae get he ither."
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 291, 4 December 1902, Page 4
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116Page 4 Advertisements Column 7 Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 291, 4 December 1902, Page 4
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