llllll![ll!![|||j|!lllll!l![||l[||!||!!l||||||lil|!|!||||||||ii!!!|||[!||||!|!|||]||||!]|||lll<||||i|!il THE Best Story 01 Have Heard u. P. Purnell. TEN -YEAR-OLD TOMMY was a cross-word fiend, like his father. His teacher met him in the street one day, and observed that he had been crvinsr. “ What is wrong?” she asked. 44 I ’ad a word wrong in me cross-word to-day,” mumbled Tommy. “ But that is nothing to cry about,” the teacher told him. “ I have made mistakes myself, and I never cry .over them. What was the word, anyhow?” “Well,” said Tommy, “the clue was 4 drunk every afternoon,’ and I put 4 dad.’ He saw it, and after he had spanked me, he told me the right word was 4 tea.’ ” The Rev H. O. Hanby, editor ot the 44 Church News," will tell a story lor 44 Star " readers to-morrow.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17854, 24 May 1926, Page 8
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133Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 Star (Christchurch), Issue 17854, 24 May 1926, Page 8
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