Children's Column.
Harper's Young People.
HOW ANSWEE. What would you do if you had a wee tease, Asking you daily such questions as these : " Mamma, does God simply turn down the light, Just when He guesses it's time to be night?" " Are flowers made out of butterfly's wing ?" " Why do the trees put their clothes on in spring, And then when cold winter comes get all undressed ?" " How does the robin get blood on his breast ?" " Will Santa Claus answer that letter of Zeb's ?" " Are bicycles made out of big spider webs ?" " Does the man in the moon smoke while looking about ? And are the blue clouds just the smoke he pufts out ? And the stars, are they just the wee sparks he let drop ?" "Do cat-tails grow up from " But here I will stop And ask you again, Will you tell, if you please, How you would answer such questions as these ?
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 14, 27 August 1898, Page 7
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153Children's Column. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 14, 27 August 1898, Page 7
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