A LESSON IN COMPETITION.
"If I ask you," said tho schoolmaster, "what have I in my hand, you must not say simply 'pencil,' but make a full senteuce of it, aud say, 'You have a peucil iv your baud.' Now I will proceed. What have I on my feet?" The auswer came immediately, "Boots." "Wrong. You haven't been observing my directions," lie rebukingly replied. "Stockings," chimed out auother. "Wroug agaiu—worse thau ever!" wrathfully exclaimed the master. "Well?" he said to a lad lioldiug his hand up. "Please, sir" —then he paused, perhaps he thought it might sound funny, but he felt it must be right, aud so he recklessly gasped it out: "Corus !"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9683, 14 October 1909, Page 3
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113A LESSON IN COMPETITION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9683, 14 October 1909, Page 3
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