THE BIRTHDAY CAKE.
We helped to make a cake for him "* nc Daddy's birthday came. ... -Let's have' candles for his age, saia. . "and write bis name." „ "Do you think Daddy's twenty-one. went and said to Cook. . t "Because it's difficult to tell the ago tnai Daddips look." „ „:j "I think he's twice as old as mc. *»" Jane I who's just been four). . But I said. "Twice as old as mc .tl""V" was just two years more). Ho we put twelve upon the c;ikc, and set each one alight, hfs And Daddy came to nursery tea upon u» birthday night. And when at last he counted them, *ye I*"*"" heard Daddy say, , _-« "Whoever could have told you I "■" twelve years uld to-day I" . -'jqk
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 26
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123THE BIRTHDAY CAKE. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 26
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