English as She is Taught.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 368, 15 May 1889, Page 3

English as She is Taught.

A jSITt; Bark i: u has-n hi.- second papei on ' Elemental y School Li'ie,' in * ' orjfjinun's. ' The batch of „'Y outh f 11! E?snys' which he lias brought together are quite'as enLertfl'nf^g^j/inytiiiug 1 oT'the port w#-remeinber. Her&ave a »evv extra^tt. trom a boy's impressions of

The Sool/t gical Gardens. ' ' Of all the animals in tins world, the Zoological Oaidens is the most. ' Yon' go in by a gate, and when you ha\e £jbt ti. bit way down, there are all around. Amei'iky can'b be nothin' to ib. They c in'fc run about and hurt you, coz .there's a cage dropped over them all. They look so vexed uoz you can see all they do and can havn a good stare all round at them ; and they keeprJookirig in the cornet .s to see if tb.oy can't find some , bushes and things to hide behjnt. The lion which is the king oEall the animals wot ever lived, h os so little that I shouldn't have known it was him, o_nly I have seen picters, niicl 'my mother taid : ' Look, Tom, now ■you -eSTf say a=* you've seen-^a-lion.' Why, he i.->n't quarfcer'as 'big as a elephant, arid he hasn'tgob no ti unK. I think'tne eliphent could master him if he liked-;- but t.hp big silly wou't, try, coz he's 50 kind,, and doesn't want to be king. The lion' is yeller, but not so yelled as in' the picterbook wot the Board gey me. He looks at yer through the bais like as wot he was .saying: 'You think a«* you can fight, don't yer, little" boy, jupt coz you no I can't out. If I could only skweeze through I'd swallow you and yer mother too.' I said to my mother, ' I should like to hear the lion aro.uing. ' Then &he pai-i : ' Why |. that « as aroat ing just now when the keeper l| looked in at Wim.' Then i nearly cried I ; was so wild; why, ib wasn't like thunder and lightenin' at all. It just opened it-> ■ mouth " wide, like as yev seed 1 men sitting at cheir doots and a gaping ;on Sunday afternoons, and it yoped no .louder than a apule man doez. . . The hippopotimus is like a little mashed eliph ]ent with its trunk off. Its ?kin is so thick that ib can stay in the pond all day without the water soaking through. Kangaroe=! are so niced that you can look a long time at them with feeling tired. Their back legs are about four times longer th^n their front ones, "and they are a lot too big behint. They sit up just like dogs abeg'tring, .'and thqy have a bag right in front for their babies to roll about in.

B »ys Should Always be Polifc to Girls. From an essay on ' politeness,' written by a chivalrous lad thirteen yea)' 3 of age, w e extract the following : — ' Boy^ should always be polite to the girls, however vexing they may be. Whenever anyone is giving anything away, always let the gii Is have their turn first. They like. it. Girjs are nob so strong as boy.«, their hair i-; long and their faces atfe prettier ; so you should be gentle 'with them. If a girl scratches your cheel? or spit s in your face, doit punch her and don't tell her mother. That would be mean. Just hold her tight behind by her arms for a minute or two, till she feels <you could give it her if you had a 'mind to. Then say to her kindly : • Don'bynu do it again, for ibis wrong,' give her a shake or t\vo and le*- her go. This is far be'ter than being unkind to her, and she will thank, you for your politeness if she's anything of- a girl.

An Antediluvian Salvation Army Captain. We are treated to an account of Noah .the pen of a little girl. ' * Noah u&ecl to', a.c,tilly, stand on heaps of stones to preach. to the people, and he told them thai if they woula not be ri^'htyets, God would send such a shower ot rain as would drownd them all and wash away the .smell. "But they only laugbt at him end pushed him off the stones, and hustled the poor man about, just like I've seen people <>o on at Hie Salvation Army when they are talking good things to us under, fche big blue flag. The people 'used to stand at' tHe doors of their tente and boo^ ami hoot at Noah,ftie,&ame as the Army men'" r and women is laught and svhitsled at by gentlemen standing at their door's and winders. My father says he is shamed to be called an Inglishman when he sees how the Salvation' is knocked about and prosecuted. He say& people will hold' a drunken man up, but will knock a Salvation down. Mother pays the polece is as bad as the uthers, cause the pitend not'to see any thing ; -of it, ;' ' il I