Iron County Record | 1915-04-02 | Page 3 | Necessarily Slow

Necessarily Slow. A California youngster had been permitted to visit a boy friend on the strict condition that ho was to leave thero at five o'clock and his mother wns very angry. Tho youngster young-ster insisted, however, that ho had obeyed his orders and had not lingered lin-gered unnecessarily on tho way. "Do you expect mo to believe," said his mother, "that It took you two hours to wnlk a qunrter of a mllo?" 8ho reached for tho whip. "Now, sir, will you tell mo tho truth?" "Ye-es, mnmma," Bobbed tho boy, "Charlie Wilson gave mo a mud turtlo and I wan afraid to carry it so I led it home."