Paying Off Old Scores.
,Jon Brady street yesterday a boy about 18 years of age stood outside the fenue and received a hatful of cherries from a boy of 9 or ten on t&^iiside." There was something so sscieetly . friendly and charitable m tn&action that a pedestrian crossed over and said to the small boy after tnebig ; one had c moved on : ■■' 'Vfedhny, did you sell him the cherries^ ;v«;No,sir." v ' «'o»ve them of your own fred will, efc?! 1 ;; -: -:■•-.■ ■ -■■- « ( f eB, Bir/' " Well, he loots like a poor boy •who can't buy fruit, and it was a noble action of yours." "That's whatl think, too, sir. He's been licking me all summer, and « " And you heaped coals of fire on iishead?" » "No 'sir. I fixed to heap a quart of half-ripe cherries into his stomach and if he doesn't howl and twist and yell and tie up m hard knots before night ? then he's too mean for the for; the colic; to tackle! He's the thirci one I've paid off that way this week;" : :-.;■ . ■,•'■■ :-i -■ i
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Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1112, 15 November 1883, Page 3
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177Paying Off Old Scores. Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1112, 15 November 1883, Page 3
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