CHILDREN’S SAYINGS.
The Young Idea Shoots Wide.—‘Why, Johnny, your sums are all wrong. Don’t you know that if you subtract something from something, something less than the something something is subtracted from will remain?’ ‘How about subtracting one apple from one plate? It leaves just as much plate.’ A Lesson Learned.— ‘ Well, Jimmiboy, do you want papa to tell you a story ?’ ‘Nope. Papa'll get thpanked like Jimmyboy if he tells thtories.'
His Choice. ‘Come here. Tommy,’ said Tommy's mamma. * Tell me whom you love best, papa, mamma, little brother, or grandma?' • Custaed,’ said Tommy. One ilay Ava went with mamma to see a mite of a babj. She looked at the little, rosy, puckered-upface without saj - ing a word. When they were going home again, mamma asked: ‘Well, dear, what did you think of the baby.’ ‘ I thought,’ said Ava, ‘ it was very rruful looking.'
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 26, 27 June 1891, Page 119
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146CHILDREN’S SAYINGS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 26, 27 June 1891, Page 119
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