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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 69, 16 March 1912, Page 6

The mythical ashes have materiaL ised (says the Melbourne “Argus”). At the close of the fourth test martfch, on the M.C.C. ground, the Engl : sh wicketkeeper, Smith, pulled up the stumps and took them off the field as a trophy of victory. One of the wickets was afterwards burned, and the embers carefully preserved. A suitable urn, in the shape of a hollow golden sphere, resembling a cricket ball, has been made by a firm of Melbourne jewellers, and the ashes will go to England in the receptacle.

“When I was in England,” said Lord Chelmsford at a Methodist Sun-day-school demonstration in the Syd» ney_ Town Hall last week, “I was chairman of a company which had control of about *27 ' large girls’ schools, and from time to time these schools had to he examined. I remember the chief examiner once saying that he would like me to see some of the answers given to the questions set in tb.e general paper. One of the questions given was a well-known proverb, in which one word was purposely omitted. ,It was the duty of the pupils to fill in the word. The question in particular was “A little is a dangerous thing.” Two of the .answers we received were rather amusing. The first was ‘A little and often is a dangerous thing.’ (Laughter.) I think there is a great deal of truth in it; hut it was not the correct answer. The next girl told ns that ‘a little widow is a dangerous thing.’ (Renewed laughter.) Well, perhaps you will agree with that when you grow; up, especially the boys.” (Loud laughter.)

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