OUR JHNNY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 79

OUR JHNNY.

(Nixon Waterman.) When Johnny is playing outdoors with tiii boys. He is bright as a brand-new penny ; In running and jumping and making a noise He is seldom outdone by any. But in learning his lesons in school, alas I He isn't considered so clever, For he frequently stands at tlie foot of hia class, T At the head of it " hardly ever !" He can catch an idea as well as the rest, For he's fully as bright as his brother; But to master the language, in which, it's ex< pressed. He never will try like the others. One day, when his teacher asked John td define A circle, he thought of the riddle A moment, and said, "It a round, straight line, Witsh a great big hole in the middle." "And what is an island?" his teacher onctf asked ; And Johnny, who bravely aspired To answer the question, was heavily tasLed To find the response she required. But he put his whole mind right to work with a will, And this is the answer it brought, her — " It's a place in the sea where the bottom/* said he, . " Sticks up more or less through the water. *

The Pahiatua Herald's Pangaroa correspondent telegiaphs that the police mada a raid on the premises known as the Club Hotel, and ransacked the same, also a dwelling house and blacksmith's shop belonging to the proprietor of the Club Hotel. A summons will be issued for »ly gro<r-selling. Fifteen gallons of beer arrived the previous afternoon, but the raid was scented, and tha beer destroyed. Oasas of spirits \v«ro planted.