FRED AND JOHNNY.
Fred came home with quite a rueful look on his face. He had been puniahed at school, ami though it had l>een deserved felt very much abused. ‘ The teacher rules with an iron hand, eh?’ asked Fred’s papa, with a smile. ‘His hand isn’t iron,’ Fred demurely replied, * but it seems to me his ruler is.* Three-year old Johnny saw his papa making his garden, and set out to do some work himself. An hour later he was found busily engaged in sticking feathers up in the let-tuce-bed, so he could ‘ raise chickens.*
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 10, 7 March 1891, Page 19
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96FRED AND JOHNNY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 10, 7 March 1891, Page 19
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