ODDS AND ENDS
'Well, Tommy, how are you getting along at school?' ' Fine. I've got so I can write my own excuses now.'
Bruges, having just opened a new harbor called Zutrugge, and connected with the quaint old Flemish city by a canal seven miles long and 26ft deep, has again become a port of the first rank.
Little Elsie was crying as if in pain. 'What is the matter, dear?'. queried her grandmother. 'Did you meet with an accident?' ' N-no, grandma !' sobbed Elsie ; 'it w-wasn't an accident ! M-mamma did it on p-purpose.'
A certain nobleman well ? known to society, while one day strolling round his stables, came across his coachman's little boy on a seat, playing with his toys. After talking to the youngster a short time, he said : ' Well, my little man, do. you know who I am?' 'Oh, yes,' replied the boy; 'you're the man who rides in my father's carriage !'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume 07, Issue 45, 7 November 1907, Page 38
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154ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, Volume 07, Issue 45, 7 November 1907, Page 38
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