BACON IMPROVED.
A miner, wdio was proud of bis bov’s attainments at school, one evening picked up a home-lesson book and road from it a quotation which ran like •this: —“Some bocks should be tasted, 'nme swallowed, and some chewed and digester! ’—Bacon.” Turning to his boy, he said. “What’s ibis, snnnio? Thon doesn’t eat books nt school, does tha’ I know von are very clover, but yon cannot do those nannywont t-ieks. I’m sure. I’ll warrant that'll be one of those printer’s errors, sannie.” “Oh. no father,” said the boy. '■Metanhcrically speaking. we cat books.” “Now.” said the father. “I didn’t go to school very long, but I know ♦ hat’s one of those printer’s errors. Why. sonnie. "an then not sec, he’s put the words ‘Racon’ in the wrong place? It should be. ‘Some bacon should be tasted, some swallowed, and some whewed and dgreted ’ »
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 126, 13 May 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)
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146BACON IMPROVED. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 126, 13 May 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)
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