Oliver Wendell Holmes was once present at a gathering where he chanced to be seated near the refreshment-table and noticed a little girl lookingly longingly at the table. In his kindly way, he said, "Are you hungry, my child?" She replied bashfully in the affirmative. "Then why don't you take a sandwich?" he asked. 'i he little maid responded: Because I haven't any Sork." The autocrat quoted, smilingly': ■"Finger!! were-made before forks," and to ;3iis intense amusement she answered : " Not jmy u fingers I"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11686, 22 June 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)
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