SAYINGS OF CHILDREN.
"Can you tell me what pride it?" asked the Sunday school teacher of a small pupil. "Yes’m,” was- the reply. “It’s walking with a cane when you ain’t lame.” Papa— “ Tommy, if you had a little more spunk you would stand better in vour class. Now, do you know what spunk is?” Tommy —“Yes, sir. It’s the past participle of spank.” "Mamma,” said five-year-old Bessie, ‘T’m going to be a duchess when I grow up.” “How are you going to acquire the title, my dear? - ’ asked her mother. “Just like other ladies do,” replied Bessie. 'Tm going to marry a Dutchman.” Small Willie one day asked his mother who made the trees and was told that God made them. A few days later ■in old colored man came to trim the and, tht little fellow seeing him at work, ran to his mother and exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, God’s out in the yard repairing His trees I”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3544, 8 July 1905, Page 4
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159SAYINGS OF CHILDREN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3544, 8 July 1905, Page 4
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