SHE BOUGHT THE GLOVES.
" Leb me see some of jour black kid. gloves/ eaid Mrs Snaggs. " These are net the latest stjles, are theyP" when the gloveß were produced. "Tea, madam," replied the shopman, "we have had them in stock only two daye." " I didn't think they were, because the fashionable paper saya that black kids have tan stiotohes, and vice verai. I iet the tan Btitcheß, but not the vice verti," The shopman explained that vice vtrsl was Latin for seven buttons, and Mrs Snaggs bought the gloves. WHAT THE WATER WAS FOR. The superintendent of a Sunday School was one afternoon explaining to his scholar* the story of Elijah and the prophets of ! Baal : how Elijah built an altar, pnt wood upon it, and cut a bullock in pieces and laid it on the altar. " And then," said the superintendent, "he commanded the people to fill four barrels with water, and to pour it over the altar; and they did this four times. Now, ■ I wonder if any boy or girl can tell me why this water was poured over the bullock upon the altar P" There was silence for a few moments, when one little girl epoke up : " Please, eir, to make the gravy."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5115, 24 November 1894, Page 3
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