SHE SUPPOSED RIGHTLY.
She was a little girl, and she would
ask questions.
"Mamma," she began, "what does Transatlantic mean?"
"Across the ocean," replied her long-suffering mother very shortly.
A long silence, broken only by the irritating sound of a book's leaves being turned rapidly backwards and forwards. Then:
"Mamma, does 'trans' always mean across?" . .
"Yes, it doesj. always," answered the little girl Js" mother, and added sternly, "But If you ask me another question I shall send you straight to bed! So remember! . . 1
The second silence was complete, and lasted quite three seconds. It was broken at last by a plaintive, small voice which commented ruminatively:
"Then I suppose transparent means a cross parent?" •
The early bird gets the worm, but, on the other hand, the early worm merely gets: eaten.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 May 1913, Page 7
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