WHAT THE LITTLE ONES SAY.
An Autumn Experience. — ‘Oh, mamma,' exclaimed little Johnnie, ‘the trees in onr yard are getting Irakiheaded.’
The next door neighbour gave little four year old Helen an apple, whereupon the little one started directly for the house. ‘Where are you going ?’she was asked. 'Goin'to get this apple undone.' James, four and one half years old, was pointing out a cow to a playmate. ‘ See the bell around her neck,' he said; ‘do you know what that is for? That’s what she rings when she wants to tell the calf that dinner is ready. The Difficulty M istered. — Four year-old Charlotte had been having some trouble with her English, but she has entiiely passed her difficulties on one point. ‘ 1 see how it is now, mamma, she said, the other day. ‘ Hens set and lay.’ ‘ Yes.’ • And people sit and lie, don’t they, mamma?’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 6, 6 February 1892, Page 143
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149WHAT THE LITTLE ONES SAY. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 6, 6 February 1892, Page 143
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