JUVENILE ANATOMY
Two youngsters of seven and eight liad overheard an adult conversation on skeletons. The seven-year-old had listened intently, and when they weie left alone the elder boy, with an rir of superior knowledge, said, abruptly : "You don't know what a skeleton is. and I do," "So do I," replied the younger. '-'I do know." "Well, what is it ?" "It's bones with the people off." Sandy M'Pherson, in a moment of abstraction, put half a crown in the collectioifr-plate last Sunday in mistake for a penny, and lias since expended a! deal of thonght as to the best way of making up for it. "Noo, I might stay awn' frae the kirk till the sum was made up ; but on the bother han' I wad be pay in pew reait a' the time an' gettin nae guid o* it. Losh V but t'm thin >in this is what the meenister ca s a 'r.e&pgsoigs.. deeficaity J'." _____
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 569, 21 May 1913, Page 2
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157Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 569, 21 May 1913, Page 2
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