UNCLE TOBY'S STORY BAG

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1745, 16 August 1905, Page 12

UNCLE TOBY'S STORY BAG

First Little Girl: “My papa is very tali.” Sboand little Girl': “My papa is as tail as the* garden waiL” First Little Girl: “My papa can look over it.” Second Little Girl: “So can mine, when lie’s got his hat on.” Asked to say what he knew about “corporal punishment in the army,” a schoolboy explains that it means “the punishment of corporals ; sergeants and higher officers are rarely flogged.” 'Little Ethel: “Mr Young, my sister Laura said! at the table this morning that- she thought you had: the prettiest moustache she ever saw.” Mr Young: “You oughtn’t ta tell things jou hear at table, Ethel.” Ethel: “But she’s going to give me a penny for telling you.”

Tommy: “Will no undesirable foreigners of any kind be allowed to live in •England once the Aliens Bill has passed?” Father: “No, 1 don’t think so.” Tommy : “Hooray! Then my French governess will have to go!”