WHAT IS A SOB!
A Canterbury teacher once gave a biy a number of wo: da to define. Thes e were some of them : Salt, fan, sob, and "bearing false wit'atss." Tne following were the boy's definitions ; Salt ; What make 3 potatoes taste nasty when there isn't any in. Fan : Something to brush the warm off with. Sob : Vfhbb a fellow doesn't mean to cry, and it bursts out all by itself. Bearing false witness: When nobody ain't done nothing, and somebody goes and tells.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 106, 24 September 1901, Page 3
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85WHAT IS A SOB! Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 106, 24 September 1901, Page 3
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