WHY IT WOULD NOT RUN
A teacher in a well-known school tells of a laughable experience he •had recently. - He had charge of a lot of boys, •and was trying to make them undersi and that all good came from one source. As bn -illustration, he told ’them of building -a house, putting water-pipes in with taps, and those pipes not being connected with the main in the street, and he said to them :
‘ Suppose I turn on that tap, and ho water comes, what is tie mall, i ?’ He naturally thought some of it e hoys would say that it was off at the main. On the contrary, one ■boy at the back called out: ‘Because you hadn’t paid the 'water-rales!’
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 169, 29 June 1901, Page 3
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122WHY IT WOULD NOT RUN Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 169, 29 June 1901, Page 3
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