WHAT YOUNG FOLKS SAY. Her Opinion of Boys.

Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 88

WHAT YOUNG FOLKS SAY. Her Opinion of Boys.

A little girl wrote the following essay on hoys: "Boys are men that have "not got as big as their papas and girls are women that will be ladies by-and-bye. When God looked at Adam He said to Himself, 'Well. I think 1 can do better if I try again,' and he made Eve. Boys are a trouble. They wear out everything but soap. If I had my way the world would be girls and the rest dolls. My papa is co nice that I think he must have been a little girl when he was a little boy. Man was made, and on the seventh day he rested. Women was then made, and he has never rested since." — He Knew His Mother Tongue. — Several years ago W. Bourke Cockran found himself in need of a new office boy. The lawyer's secretary was left to make a selection from the horde of applicants. His choice was a bright young lad of 14 or 15, who was sent in to have an interview with Cockran. After a number of questions, which tl.c boy answered successfully, the lawyer inquired : "Are you well acquainted with your mother tongue?" "Yes, sir," the- lad replied, "causa my xnudder jaws me most every night." At a Sunday school examination the teacher asked a boy whether he oould forg ; ve those who wronged him. "Oould you," said the teacher, "forgive a boy, for example, who has insulted or struck you?" "Y-e-e-s, sir," replied the lad very slowly. "I think— l— could, if he was bigger than I am." A head master sends us a copy of a letter just received from a parent : "Dear Sir, I t>eg to tender the necessary month notice for my son John to expire at the end of this term. — Yours faithfully, ." "If you knew the boy," the head master adds, "you would appreciate the wisdom of the parent." This reminds us of the Ir^h mother who wrote to Dr Haig Brown requesting him to inter her boy at Charterhouse, and Dr Brown's answer that ho srould be jpl-eased to undertake her sou.