UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19604, 5 April 1927, Page 6

UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES.

A SMALL BOY'S POCKETS. According to a correspondent of an English newspaper, the following is a list of articles recently taken from a small boy's pocket. There were fortyseven in all. One cigarette-holder (looted from Ms father), two calendars, one programme of a revue, five letters, three diaries, one wallet, six pencils, one parse, two knives, one marble, one bundle of string, one Kodak film, one pieco of carbon paper, one piece of elastic, one crest, on® screw, one cigarette card, and one stud. There were also two ses-shells, one ?adlock, one fountain pen clip, one penolder, three pieces of indiarubber, one copy of a Christmas carol, pna comb in case, one pencil lead refill case, on® chestnut, one hazel nut, on® photographic negative, one photographic print, one adhesive label. Probably most parents could provide similar lists; but can any adult remember why he one© burdened himself with a superfluity of unattractive ohj»d*t