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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3234, 3 April 1917, Page 7

SIDELIGHTS OX HISTORY A girl was required to write a brief sketch of Queen FJiznltetb. Her paper contained this sentence:— "Elizabeth was so dishonest that she stole her soldiers' food." The teacher was puzzled, and called the tn'rl. "Where did you get that notion?" "Why, that'* what it savs in the history." Tho hook was sent for. and tlie pav *aff„ was found. It read:— "Blizobeth na> s„ parsimonious that site even pinched her soldiers* rations." A\ a hrue dinner-pa rtv at Hatfield a »»nmi>tion. yonue nian. ve-v much np. tf>-d:ite wes teasing his neitdifotr an r»'d-fn*hinnr>d squire, whom T „rd &-,},<, burr hfehlj appreciated. The voting r«"„n constant I v referred to him n « ••Phi'i«*i..e." At list the old gentleman twtilv replied : "f don't know what vou mo-n hv a Phji'ctine." "IWtrnn?" f-ord Sal!*',, rv . " \ PKni«H*»n is a ccntWpn who ,'s rnnoyed by the pw-bene of rn a*;."