AND YOU WOULD, TOO, WOULDN’T YOU? The class had been studying about the house fly and how dangerous lie is to health. The lesson sank, deep into the mind of little George, who, when asked to write a composition on the subject, turned in the following: The fly is a insect he has six legs, he is more dangerous than a lion but I had rather a flj’ would bite me than a lion. A YOUTHFUL DIPLOMAT. “Willie,” said the doting aunt, holding her nephew close to her, “tell ine whom you like best —your mother, your father, or me.” Willie squirmed to get away. “I don’Q want to tell,” he said. “It’s too near Christmas.” DOESN’T HAVE TO TALK. “Does the baby talk yet?” inquired the friend of the family of the little brother. “Naw.” said that disgusted youth. “He don’t have to talk. 1 have to wait for Christmas to get anything, but all |he has to do is yell and he gets everything in the house *
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1921, Page 2 (Supplement)
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169Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1921, Page 2 (Supplement)
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