SMILE AWHILE.
Teacher: "Now can any little boy or girl tell me what important things aro alive to-day that did not exist two hundred years ago?" Littlo Boy: "Please Teacher, us.' ' Harold was not very well, and so the doctor was called in. "Now, then, young man," ho said to the littlo boy, "put. out your tongue. Put it right out! No, further than that!" "But I can't, doctor," said Harold Jimidly, "it's joined on at the other end!" Willie: "Auntie, tell. me. Is au Indian's wife called a 'squaw'?" Auntie: "Yes, dear, why?" Willie: "Oh, I was just wondoring if the Indian ! children aro called 'squawlers,' that's "all." Teacher: "Now, Jimmy, give mo a sontence that contains the word 'seldom." Jimmy (screwing up his forehaad)'My father had two goats, but he sel'd 'em'!" Pa: "Yes, my boy, that gentleman you saw me Bpeaking to has been to every corner of the globe." Freddy: "How can that be. dad? The globe is round!"
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 14
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163SMILE AWHILE. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1927, Page 14
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