EXPLAINING IT.
A little girl of; this city recently gave a forcible though unconscious illustration of what foreigners find a perplexing peculiarity of our language. Her younger brother inquired : * Do cows give beef and ham ’’ ‘Of course they don’t,’ was the scornful reply. ‘ You ought to know better than that. Cows lay milk.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VII, 16 February 1895, Page 167
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53EXPLAINING IT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VII, 16 February 1895, Page 167
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