Iron County Record | 1915-03-26 | Page 9 | Necessarily Slow

Necessarily Slow. A California youngster hnd been permitted to visit a boy friend on the strict condition that ho was to leave there at five o'clock and his mother wns vory 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 beliovo," said his mother, "that it took you two hours to walk a quarter of a mile?" She reached for the whip. "Now, air, will you tell mo the truth?" "Ye-es, mnnmu," sobbed tho boy, "Charlie Wilson gavo mo a mud turtlo nnd I was afraid to carry it bo I led It homo."