Tho Bishop of Hereford was examining a school class the other day, and among other things asked what an average was. Several boys pleaded ignorance, bat one at last replied, •It Is what a hen lays on.’ The answer puzzled the Bishop not a little, bat the boy persisted in it, stating that be read it In his little book, and on doing so he pointed trinmShantly to a paragraph commencing—‘The omeatio ban laye on an average fifty eggs each year.'
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2584, 19 July 1882, Page 4
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