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(Sent in-by Ethel Wright, Woodcocks Road, . Warkworth; age 13.) Q.: What ie the difference between a schoolboy studying his lessons and a farmer minding his cows? A.: One is stocking his mind and the other is minding his stock. Q.: In what month do children talk the least? A.: February, because it is the shortest. (Sent in by Edna Harvey, Mueller Street, Waihi.) Q. When is an unibrclla like a person who has just got over an illness? A. When it is recovered. Q. AVhy are tears like potatoes? A. Because, they spring from the eyes. Q. Why should you not sleep in a trr ; -'- A. Because trains run over sleepers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 204, 29 August 1934, Page 16
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