QUAINT SAYINGS BY CHILDREN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 25 November 1924, Page 5

QUAINT SAYINGS BY CHILDREN

A teacher liad carefully explained the necessity of well cooking rice, sago., etc., in order to> gain the full nutritive value. Reporting the lesson, a sixth standard girl stated: “Before people eat rice, or any other starchy foods, they.must swell and burst”! A schoolboy, asked the meaning of the word “sob,” replied: “When a feller don’t mean to cry and its bursts out itself.” • & Some time ago, in a Scripture examination on “Bethlehem,” a girl wrote: “The wise men of the East ,were guided by' a flock of sheep.” A lady with her little daughter, aged six years, was being ushered into a doctor's consulting room bv a smiling attendant in nurse’s uniform. Child: “Who is that nice lady, motlher?” Mother: “That lady is the doctor’s nurse, darling.” Child (with wonder) looking at the broad-shouldered tall doctor: “But isn’t he big enough to hath himself, mother!” The first time I took my little son to church all went well until the collection. I slipped a penny into his Land, whis?ering to him to put it on the plate, 'his he proudly did, at the same time asking me, none too quietly: “What shall we get for that now, mamma?”