A Common Occurrence.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVIII, Issue I, 4 January 1902, Page 40

A Common Occurrence.

The superintendent of schools was on a tour of inspection, and found the pupils in a certain room about to engage in the pleasing task of writing compositions. “Now, children, said this dignitary, “don’t write about spring, or war, or history, or anything of that sort. Write about common occurrences — things that happen in our daily lives.” The small boy in the front seat listened attentively to this advice, and after labouring diligently for a halfhour, he produced the following: — “It is verry funy to see men put on their collers. They genally cant find the coller-stud for sum time, an’ when they git that the butten-whole has gone an’ got lost, then the man jumps up an’ down an’ sez friteful things, an’ after a wile he gits it buttend al rite, an’ looks rale plesent. This is a conion ocurents.”