SCRAPS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 34, 26 August 1893, Page 143

SCRAPS.

A LECTURER wished to explain to a little girl how a lobster casts its shell when he has outgrown it, so, by way of illustration, he said, ‘ What do you do when you have outgrown vour clothes? You throw them aside, don't you ?’ ‘ Oh, no,’ said the little one, ‘we let out the tucks.'

A school teacher who had just been telling the story of David winds up with, ‘Ami all this happened over three thousand years ago.’ A little cherub, its blue eyes dilated with wonder, after a few montents’ thought, exclaims, • < >h, dear, inarm, what a memory you must have.’

‘ Bobby ; • Mamma, didn’t Methuselah have nmre'n one name?’ Mamma (reading): ‘Only one, of course. Now don’t bother me any more.’ Bobby (after a long pause) : ‘ Mamma, can’t 1 ask you one more question ?’ Mamma: ‘ Yes, yes.’ Bobby : • Was Methuselah his first or last name ?’