SAYINGS OF CHILDREN.
"Can you tell me what pride i*?” asked the Sunday school teacher of s 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 your class. Now, do you know what spunk is?” Tommy—“ Yes, sir. It’s the past participle of spank.” "Mamma,” said five-year-old Bessie, “I'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. “I’m 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 ju old colored man came to trim the
trees, and, the little fellow seeing him at work, ran to his mother and exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, God’s out in the yard repairing His trees!”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3573, 16 September 1905, Page 4
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159SAYINGS OF CHILDREN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3573, 16 September 1905, Page 4
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