RECOGNISED IT.
A primary teacher, not a thousand miles from Boston, is describing the banana, and the children are to name it. Finally she steps to the board and draws the outlino of tho fruit. Up comes Johnnies hand. " Well, Johnnie, Irhat have I described ?"
"Cucumber!"
"Oh, no; the cucumber grows here, and I told you this fruit grows in the South ; bosides, is not the cuoumber a vegetable r"
Johnnie yields the point and relapses into a brown Btudy. Soon an idea strikes him and up comes the hand again. " Are you sure you are right this time, Johnnie ?" "Yea'm" — with self-assurance.
« Well, what is it ?" " bausage !" is the triumphant rejoinder.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4415, 19 June 1882, Page 4
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112RECOGNISED IT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4415, 19 June 1882, Page 4
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