A FEW EXAMPLES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 69

A FEW EXAMPLES.

"Spell toes," said the father, who was teaching his little son, jeveai years old, to spell. "T-o-z-e," answered the boy. i "No, that's not right. T-o-e-s spells toes." , "But it sounds lika t-o-z-e." | "I know it, my boy, but you cannot go i by the sound." j Then, in order to enforce this proposition, | the father called on his son to spell frozo. 1 "F-r-o-e-s," said the boy. | "No, you're wrong again. This time we , do use the 'z,' and spell the word f-r-o-z-e." "Huh!" grunted the boy. "Now, can you spell rose?" aid the father. ■The boy hesitated. At longth he said: "I don't know whether to say r-o-z-e or r-c-e-s, and really I don't know that either way would be right." r "Spell it r-o-s-e," said the father, "though there is another word pronounced just like it that's spelled /-o-e-s." The poor little lad looked very miserable. "Just one more word," said the father. "Te-U me how you spell blows?"

"Well," aid the boy, who had had quite* enough nonsense, as he viewed it, from his father, and had suddenly made up his mind to pay back in kind, "I spell it threo ways. I spell it b-l-o-6-e for morning, b-1-o-e-s for aftennoon, and b-1-o-z-e for evening." "I spell it b-1-o-w-s all the lime," said the father. The boy said nothing for a minute or two. Then, looking up, he solemnly remarked: "I think, father, that the English language was made for persons \ cry, very well educated."

— Elephants are fond of gin, but not onef of them has even beeu lonowu to touch, champagne. — From Odessa comes a romantic tory of a miser's millions. A man named Eaeli died some months asjo, amid surroundings indicative of tli3 utmost penury. On hi death -bed he said to his f riemds : "I leavi nothing but debts," but on a judicial in ventory cf his possessions being made it ha< been found that he died worth £4,000,000, most of which was imveeted in British eecu rities.