A schoolgirl was required to write a short essay about a. niotor car. She submitted the following: “My_uncle bought a motor car. 5e was riding in the country when it broke down going unhill. I think this is about twenty words. The other two hundred are what my .uncle said when he was walking back to town, but I don’t remember what they were.” “When T was your age,” said the irate father to his six-year-old son, “I was glad to get dry bread to cat.” “You re muoJi better off now you’re living with us, aren’t you, daddy?’’ replied the son.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 9
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