TWO FOOLISH PERSONS.
Once thorc was a little girl who had a lorely doll and a pretty live kitten. One day the pretty kitten lay clown on her doll'b Jap and took a nap. Thio crushed the doll's fine new dress. Then the little girl wa.s very angry at the kitten for doing this and she would nob give the poor kitten any supper. The kitten cried, but he did not know -u hat he had done. He was only a kitten. One day a foolish farmer started to take a bag of corn to the mill. As he had strong arm.- he held the bag so very tightly that he burst a big hole in one corner of the bag, and the corn began to spill out. It spilled out slowly all the way to the mill ; but the man did not see it, and he was much puzzled. "My bag grows very light," he said, "and "why do so many creese follow me? they cackle for me to give them some of my corn, but 1 cannot spare any. Geese are the foolibhcfet things 1 ever did see. Heighho ! It's a long way to the mill."— St.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 267, 26 May 1888, Page 3
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199TWO FOOLISH PERSONS. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 267, 26 May 1888, Page 3
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