A DISAPPOINTED SCHOLAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 11 April 1907, Page 37

A DISAPPOINTED SCHOLAR

Little Sammy Slipperton Went to school in glee. • There's lots of things 1 want to know,And now I shall !' said he/ But back he came that very night" With drooping heart and head. •« The teacher doesn't know much more - Than other folks,' he said. • I didn't learn a single thing, 'Cept d-o-o-r, door, And one and one and one make three— And those I knew before ! " When 1 asked teacher „ why txie stars Weren't right straight in a- row, Instead of being all mixed up, ' . She said she didn't Know. • She couldn't tell me when, they'll build A railroad to the sun, ~ Nor how the smell grows in a flower,' Said Sammy Slipperton. .' I thought that teacher'd know right .off What makes red roses red, But r oh, she doesn't know much .more Than other folks !' he said.

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