USEFUL NEIGHBOURS. Teacher: We borrowed our numerals from the Arabs, our calendar from the Italians. Can anyone think of other examples? Jones: Our lawn mower from the Snliths, cur step-ladder from the Browns, and our baby carriage from the Robinsons! BEATEN. I A boy was lying on the grass at the cross-roads, when, a traveller asked him the way to the village. The boy jerked his thumb in the direction. “Well!” gasped the man. “If you can show me a lazier trick I’ll give you half a crown! ” "Put it in my’pbcket, please,” said -the boy, yawning.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 222, 13 December 1926, Page 7
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