A PERTINENT QUESTION
Mr. Ives lias a mind that delights in facts. One evening he laid down the paper, was silent for a moment, and then said: ‘ That's odd.’ 4 What is it inquired his wife. Why, here is a man who says it would take 12,000,000 years to pump the sea dry at the rate of a thousand gallons a second.' Mrs. Ives sat thinking the matter over. Finally, she said : ‘ Why, Henry, where would they put all the water?’
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New Zealand Tablet, 16 October 1913, Page 62
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81A PERTINENT QUESTION New Zealand Tablet, 16 October 1913, Page 62
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