OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
A nice old gentleman was out at a party the other evening, and after the ,-nsual painful efforts of the vocalists and pianists, he tunned to the eight-year-old daughter of the house. -
"Now, Priscilla, dear/.' he said kindly, "won't you recite 'Mary Had a Little '■'-".- . -
The small girl looked at-him in silence for a moment before she replied: ".Really, I would like to please yo,u, but I don 't care for that poem. To be frank, it has little, if any, literary merit, and in addition it is not true, to life nowadays. Owing to the high.and ever-rising prices in the meat trade, I doubt if Mary could afford to buy a whole lamb. At the most, J expect she only had a chop."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 2914, 1 September 1925, Page 5
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