JUVENILE WIT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8279, 21 October 1905, Page 3

JUVENILE WIT.

"But," askod the boy's mothor, "isn't there anything in school in which you excelled ?" " Sure," replied the bad boy, " I made more blunders than any of the others."

Three city youths went out one day in the country fishing. Becoming very hungry, and having nothing with them to eat, they went into a wayside house and asked for something to eat and drink. The woman of the house got them three mugs of tea and some cakes. One of the three youths, a bit of a wag, noticing the mugs, said: " Eh, missus, where are the saucers?' "Ah," said the woman, with a sly little twinkle in her humorous eye, " we don't give saucers to mugs." The wag said no more. " Now, in order to subtract," explained a teacher to the class in mathematics, " things have to always be of the same denomination. For instance, we couldn't take three apples from four pears, nor six horses from nine dogs." A hand went up in the back part of the room. " Teacher," shouted a small boy, " can't you take four quarts of milk from three cows ?"

The following note reached a schoolmaster from a boy's father, informing him of the cause of his son's absence from school the previous day. It naturally caused some merriment, and' judging from the way he signs the epistle it in no way flatters him. The note ran as follows:—" Please ekscuse Tommy not being at school .yesterday as he was kept at home to wash—his h tlnr."