TWINS WHO THINK ALIKE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9749, 14 December 1922, Page 5

TWINS WHO THINK ALIKE

SAME MARKS AT SCHOOL. Absolute similarity of braim far more remarkable • than the comparatively common similarity of. features, is the distinguishing mark* of Willie and Frankie Allen, the eight-and~a-hall-year-old Iftrindsor "twins' who have . completely :baffled theiir form master at the county school'. , At the end of their first fortnight < they had . received exactly the same number of • marks—l66—and were bracketed thirteenth-in a form of 25. Their marks were secured for eight different subjects, in none of which was there a difference of more than three points, while in history, arts, physics, arithmetic, and geography they secured the same total. * I am assured by their father, who owns “ The CrisperV’ Inn, Grove Road, Windsor, that they never work | together, says a writer in a London paper.. They wei;e both wearing the red and green school tie when I called, and each was clad in grey stockings, shorts, and a little dark grey jacket. At first they were equally tongue-tied. They both found speech at the same moment, i however. How do you spell “acknowledged” ? I asked them. They both chanted the correct reply in chorus. / • , „ „ And ho'w do you spell accommodation ” ? they responded simultaneously from the opposite ends of the room. Each ought to be able to know what the other is thinking, but both denied awkwardly that they could. At games Willie prefers cricket and j Frankie’s first choice 'is Rugby football. This was the sole distinction I could draw after 20 minutes’ questioning. Both seem to be confirmed woman-haters. “ Tiger Tim” is their mutual first choice in literature. Neither disapproves of any known form of food, ■ though Willie is said to be able to eat more.

“What do you propose to be when you grow up?” I asked Willie. “I don’t know,” came the reply after much thought. Frankie, after a similar period of deliberation, was equally at a loss to know how he would spend manhood’s days.