Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-10-11 | Page 7 | Had not Broken Promise

HAD NOT BROKEN PROMISE Surely Small Boy Was Not to Blame Because Others Thought the Poker Was Hot. A farmer, hearing a commotion at the back of his house, hurried out to find his little boy, armed with a red-hot red-hot poker, enjoying himself immensely by chasing some frightened farm laborers la-borers round the yard. After a severe lecture from bis father fa-ther the youngster promised that he would never do it again. A day or two later the same 10111-niotion 10111-niotion was heard and the same youth was found causing havoc with the selfsame poker. "Mow dare you?" said the Irate parent. pa-rent. "But father " Interrupted the young culprit. "I on't 'but father me.' sir !" The youngster, however, convinced of the satisfactory nature of his explanation, ex-planation, would not be silenced. "But. father," he saia. "it's only painted this time." London Til-Bits.