TWO STORIES.
Grandpapa had just given Percy a picture book full of fine stories. • What do you think of your book ?’ asked grandmamma. ‘ I think that the man who made it must have been in the babv-room,’ answered Percy. ‘ Why do you think so?' asked grandpapa. • Because he doesn’t put his stories in writing a- 1 would. He puts them in printing, the same way the babies print their spelling lessons on their slate.’ Skip was a sailor dog—that is, he took a voyage to sea ; yet Skip was a very poor sailor. He did not behave at all like himself. No matter how much the captain and the mate and all in the cabin petted him, Skip would not seem to notice them. He appeared to be very sick. All were sure that he was. One day, when Skip did not seem to improve, some one said, * We must send him home.’ On hearing these words. Skip brightened up, and was himself again. He was only homesick.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 43, 22 October 1892, Page 1061
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168TWO STORIES. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 43, 22 October 1892, Page 1061
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