A CLEVER EXCUSE.
1 A little toy one afternoon stayed away frorro school, and in the morning, when the teacher 1 asked him why he had been absent, he, replied : "Please, sir, I tob coming to school, when, 'a, policeman was standing near a. steam roller,' and 1 stayed, watching it, and the policeman says, 'Mind thaft sifceaon. roller.' And, please, teacher, I stayed minding it all the .afternoon."
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Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10245, 10 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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69A CLEVER EXCUSE. Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10245, 10 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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