AT DANCING LESSON,
To most little girls and many _ys the dancing-lesson is a delight, but not to all. The mother of one small boy, who usually accompanies him to the class, partly to encourage him, and partly to- enjoy the pretty spectacle, noticed one afternoon lately that although he had bowed correctly before several little girls in turn, he had failed to secure a partner. She beckoned him to her side..
"Why wouldn't any of those little grids dance with you, Bobby?" she inquired. "Did you ask them nicely »»
"Well, mamma," admitted Bobby, reluctantly, "I'm not sure whether it was nice, exactly, but it was truthful; and you say I'm always to fell th« truth. I said: 'May I have the pain of this dance with you ' and they wouldn't any of them dance wtih me. But you know perfectly well, mamma, it wouldn't hay* been true if I'd said 'pleasure.' "
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 3
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152AT DANCING LESSON, Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 3
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