GORE.
Reason: Because he couldn’t paint. (2> Jim has the toothache. Reason: Eating too many lollies. A Maori boy, in describing a frog, wrote: “A frog’s bead is joined to its body by nothing.” It is not only from the children that the teacher derives some of his best amusement. In the notes of wellmeaning (or otherwise) parents one frequently comes across something really "priceless.” The following note was received from a Maori woman after I had been about a month at a certain school: “Please excuse Tommy for been away yesterday as he been awake all night with toothache and could you lend me a 12s until pay day.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 708, 6 July 1929, Page 2
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110GORE. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 708, 6 July 1929, Page 2
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