Angler: Hang it! Is there a dry spot in this boatVvhero 1. can strike a match? Boatman (who has been disappointed as regards refreshment): Try my throat, sir! i’ompous Judge (to little girl in the .'itness box): Was your father under •he influence of alcohol' when your • her struck him with the poker? He Girl: No, sir; he was under ..he kitchen table. The children were having an object lesson on the “Heron.” The master called attention to its small tail, saving: “The bird has no tail to speak of.” The next day he asked the children to write an essay on the bird, and one little girl concluded her essay by saying: “The heron has a tail, but ‘it must not be talked of.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2191, 21 September 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)
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