EUROA GAZETTE — FEBRUARY 16, 1915
A TALL TALE
Mr. Shorter was painfully aware of the fact that he was gradually becoming bald. But he cheered himself with the reflection that he had managed, with the aid of sundry locks brushed over from either side, to so far cover his bare pate as to hoodwink his friends. But last Sunday the climax was reached, when Johnnie, the four-year-old atom of Shorter, after gazing at his father for some time, suddenly surprised the company by shouting, in childish glee :
“Oh, papa, ain’t you growing tall ?”
“Tall, my, dear,” answered the amazed Shorter. “What ever makes you think so ?”
Then, pointing to the shiny pate just visible through the struggling locks, the cherub replied : “Why, papa, you’ve growed right through your hair.”
From— Euroa Gazette (Vic. : 1915 - 1918), 15 Feb 1916. Trove. National Library of Australia.
