Rather Baffled Him.
Tommy had just completed his first term at a boarding-school. On the evening of his return home, wishing to impress his ffttrhrsisrer wltirfhe vastness of his knowledge, he led her to her nursery window, pointed to a star, land said: “You see that light up there ? Well its bigger than all this world. ”
No ’tain’t 1 ” replied his sister But I tell you it is,” returned the youthful scholar. “ Then why is it that it can’t keep off the rain ? ” came the baffling retort.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 18 June 1915, Page 3
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87Rather Baffled Him. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 18 June 1915, Page 3
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