QUAINT SAYINGS BY CHILDREN.

Shannon News, 5 August 1927, Page 3

QUAINT SAYINGS BY CHILDREN.

' 'SWELL AND BURST .'' A teacher had carefully explained the necessity of well cooking rice, sago, and so forth, in order, to gain the full, nutritive value. Reporting the lesson, a sixth standard-girl stated: "Before people eat rice or any other starchy foods, thev must swell and burst"! A schoolboy, asked the meaning of the word I "sob" replied: "When a feller don't mean to cry and it bursts out itself. " Some time ago, in a Scripture examination on "Bethlehem," a givl wrote: "The wise men of the East wjrc guided bv a flock of sheep." Teacher: "Now we come to lawsmoral and judicial. What docs 'judicial' mean?" Tommy: "Everything belonging to the Jews, sir! " "DOCTOR'S NURSE."

Teacher: "Can any boy give me a transitive verb?" Boy: "Plea.c, sir, come." Teacher: "Oh, no, you can I 'come anything.'" Boy: "Please, sir, vol' can come (comb) your 'air." * Teacher: "Give a definition ol 'gravitation.' " Scholar: "Gravitation is that which if it were not we should all fly away!" A lady with her little daughter age:: six years, was being ushered into a doetor's consulting room by a smiling attendant in nurse's uniform. Child.' "Who is that nice lady, mother?" Mother: "That lady is the doctor's nurse, darling." Child (with wonder) looking at the broad shouldered doctor: "But Isn't he big enough to bath himself, mother!" WHAT DO WE GET?

The first time I took my little son f.o church all went well until the collection. I slipped a penny into his hand, whispering to him to put it on the plate. This he proudly did, at the same time asking me, none too quietly: "What shall we get for that now, mamma?"

' Ten-year-old Bobby had been worrying his'father with questions, receiving very vague replies. At last one real puzzler fairly roused dad. "Look here, my boy," he said, "I never used to ask questions when I" was a boy like you do. Knock off." "Well,"' calmly retorted Bobby "that accounts for it, dad. That must bo the reason you can't answer mine. "