Little Emily asked a great many questions, the answers to whieh were sometimes very unsatisfactory. One day, after pondering a long time on what had been told her, she exclaimed : «Oh, Ido wish I had a ceitaiaer inside of me!' Bertie had beon to school for the first time. ~ , , ~, Daddy. 'Well, B3rtio, what did you learn at school to-day ?' ■ Bertie (proudly): 'That I can lick 6very hoy in the class, dad/ Bat that wasn't quite the stylo of learnin? of which Daddy approved. £ Little Isaac, whose mother paid him a peHny a doaen for pins picked up (II tbo floor (to prevent the baby from getting them), said: 'Nurse, do you know what I am going to do with my next penny ? • No,'answered nurse. ' , ■ Well, I'm going to buy a packet of pins and scatter them all over the floor and then pick them up again,' said the young financier
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 380, 20 August 1903, Page 2
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150Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 380, 20 August 1903, Page 2
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