GETTING INFORMATION OUT OF PA

New Zealand Tablet, 1 November 1906, Page 37

GETTING INFORMATION OUT OF PA

My, pa, he "didn't go to town Last evening after tea, But got a book- an' settled down As comfy as could be. I'll teli you I was ofiul glad To have my pa about. .To answer all the things I had Been -tryin' to iind out. - And so I asked him why the world Is round instead of square, And why the piggies' tails are curled And why don't fish breathe air ? And why the moon don't hit' a star, And why' the dark is black, And jest now. many birds there are, And will the wind come back ? And why does water stay in wells, And why don't kittens hum, And -what's the roar I hear in shells, And when will Christmas come ? And why the grass is always green, Instead of sometimes blue ? And why a bean will grow a bean, And not an apple, too ? And why a horse can't learn to moo, And why a cow can't neigh ? And do the fairies live on dew, And what makes hair grow gray ? And then pa got up an', Gee ! The ofiul words he said, I hadn't done a thing, but he Jest sent me off to bed.