RATHER BAFFLED HIM.
Tommy had j".flt completed his first term at a boarding-school. On the evening of his return home, wishing to impress his little sister with the vastness of his knowledge, he led her to her nursery window, pointed to a star, aud said: "You see that light up there? Well, it's bigger than all this world." "No, Hain't!" replied hlfl sister. "But I tell you it is," returned ihe youthful scholar. "Then why is it that it can't keep off the rain?" came the baffling retort.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 264, 3 April 1917, Page 4
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88RATHER BAFFLED HIM. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 264, 3 April 1917, Page 4
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