INVESTIGATING HIS HISTORICAL RESEARCH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 92, 19 July 1881, Page 4

INVESTIGATING HIS HISTORICAL RESEARCH.

"And so yon are studying history ?" asked a fond father of his hopeful. . " You bet I am !" responded the lad. " Good enough !" roared the delighted parent. " Now tell me who George was ?" , " He Ava.s imrse to a lot of old colored women, and lived to be two hundred and seven years old," sang out the boy. " No, no, try again. 'What was he first in ?" • '• "First ashore, first to leave, and j first in the carts of the hungry men !" " Look here, you scahvag," said the old nmn, riling up, " you want to j get this thing straight. What was it Washington conld'nt do ?" "He couUVnt lay !" snorted the j youngster. "You've got the right man Lut the "wrong tense," umsed the parent. 18 What fight did he win ?" " Ho licked Huukcr Bill on Boston Common, in throe rounds." " Say, you ; let's know about this, What was it he cut when lie was a boy?" "He cut his father's cheese, and exclaimed, ' Father, spare vie ; I cannot tell a hatchet from a lie !' " There was some further coutroversey in the woodshed, aud the student went to bed wondering if the history of the United States wouldn't have proved, practically, more beneficial if the book had been located at the southern end of the spine, thau its contents had appeared to be as applied to the end.