Clever Precocity.—A Paris paper tells a charming story of clever precocity. " Mamma,' said a girl of fourteen, "you neTer let me play charades, but I know how to make them too. Listen. My first is a domestic animal. My second is what every woman tries to conMy whole is the beginning of liberty. Can you guess it?" "No." "But mammal it is very simple. It is mari-age." Ifc ; S) lve suppose, hardly worth while to remind anyone that mar lis the French for a, husband. Why are curds like the opposite house ? Because they ara orer the whey.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1842, 9 December 1869, Page 4
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