“Now, John,” said tho teacher, “if your mother should send you for half-a-dozen eggs, and the price was sevenpence halfpenny, what would a whole dozen be?” “They would be smashed, sir, before I got home.” Teacher: You don’t understand. How much would you pay for them? John: Nothing. Teacher: Can some other boy answer the question? Another Scholar: He would pay nothing, sir. Teacher: You are as big a dunce as John. “No, I ain’t,” retorted the boy, “his mother gets everything on tick!”
Last November was the wettest November ever recorded over a great part of Europe. At least 20,000,000,000 tons of rain fell in England and Wales alone.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7142, 13 February 1930, Page 2
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