SLOWEST BOY ON EARTH.
He was the slowest boy on earth, and had been sacked at three places in two weeks, so his parents had apprenticed him to a naturalist. But even he found him- slow. It took him two hours to give the canaries their seed, three to stick a pin through a dead butterfly, and four to pick a convolvulus. The only point about him was that he was willing. " And what," he asked, having spent a whole afternoon changing the goldfishes' water, " shall I do now, sir?" The naturalist ran his fingers through his locks.
( "Well, Robert," he replied at langth, " I think you might now take the tortoise out for a run."*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17348, 20 December 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)
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116SLOWEST BOY ON EARTH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17348, 20 December 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)
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