JIMMIE’S OPINIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 40, 4 October 1890, Page 18

JIMMIE’S OPINIONS.

Interested fathers and mothers are often anxious to see their children's school reports, but possibly they might gain a deeper knowledge of the childish mind if they also perused Tommy’s or Dickey’s examination papers. One child brought two of his papeis home for inspection, because, as he indignantly declared, he ‘saw the teacher laugh when she was correcting them.’ ‘ I put them in the history book, papa, to keep them safe,’ he said.

‘ Are you sure that the teachei was laughing at yours,. Jimmie'!’ asked his father, as he opened the book and prepared to seem grave. ‘ I knew they were mine,’ he protested, ‘ because both times she looked at me, and said “ < • Jimmie, Jimmie, what shall we do with you'!’’ Now, you look at them, papa, ami tell me what’s the matter.’ Papa looked, ami made two choice exti acts, over which he himself could not forbear smiling. ‘ Mountains have a great effect on the rainfall. They are very useful at such times, because, when it rains, people can take to the mountains for shelter.’ ‘The reason you can’t boil eggs at a high altitude is because there is not enough pressure of the atmosphere to harden the yolk.’ ‘ Did you understand exactly what you meant Try these answers ?’ asked his father, sternly. ‘ P’raps not,’ said Jimmie, with an air of indifference, ‘ but that's what the book said, anyway !’