When the children went back to school, the teacher wondered how they had spent their holiday. So she told them to write an essay on the subject. One of the first efforts she read was written by a small girl, who stated that she spent the wet evenings playing chess with her big brother. “Do you really play chess. Molly?” the teacher asked in natural surprise. “No. miss.” was the bashful reply, “but I didn’t know how to spell dominoes.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1940, Page 7
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