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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5267, 9 February 1878, Page 5 (Supplement)

The Bishop of Hereford was examining a school class the other day and, amongst other things asked what an average was? Several boys pleaded ignorance, but one at last replied, “It is what a hen lays on.” This answer puzzled the bishop not a little: but the boy persisted in it, stating that h* had read it in his little book of facts. He was then told to bring the Ullle book, and. on doing so, he pointed triumphantly to a paragraph commencing, “The domestic hen lays »on an average fifty;eggs each year. “Who will say ’after this that reading does not make a full man? “Two and two never ma<e more than four.” Slid a public speaker. “ Yes they do.” cried a boy in the audience. “Perhaps our young friend will kindly tell us when two and two make more than four,” blandly said the speaker ; whereupon the boy cried, “When they’re side by side, you old stupid—then they make twenty-two, don’t they?*