GEORGIE'S LESSON
Once upon a time' there lired; lii Switzerland--a spoilt boy of six caltei Georgie. One dayvhe awoke to fini that it had been snowing hard durinj the night. Greatly excited, he loojce< out of the window to see the boys aiii girl* skating on a -pond, nearby. :■;. After breakfast Ec thought he wouli go skating too. "Mummy," he called "I'm a big boy now, so I'm going fo askate."' ."Indeed you are not." "I an so!" But Mummy had gone upstairs Now was his chance.. Taking up hi skates he climi\ed out of the window Sunning to. the1 pond, he tried to skatfl ■b~*. he was carried further'into thi centre, where. it was not aaf c. All h a sudden there wa* a crash, and. h fell headlong into the pond, whe* everything went.blank. When he gain ed consciousness he was ia bed witl the doctor bending over him.: It taughj him a lesson, for he did not walk fo six long months after, and he waF'i changed and different child. ' '.. |'. "TIGRESS" (10); I City. ■■'•it
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 7
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178GEORGIE'S LESSON Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 7
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