Other Children’s Sayings.
Mamma, said Harry-, “what’s the difference between goose and geese?” “Why, don’t you know?” said four-year-old Annie. “One geese is goose, and a whole lot of gooses is geese!”
Harry: “I have managed to put my Ixots on myself this morning, aunty.” Aunty': Oh, you silly’ boy! You have put them on the wrong feet. Put them on the other feet directly!” Hany: “I haven’t any- other feet to put them on, aunty.” ’- 1 ■
Jack’s Mamma: “There were three slices of cake in the cupboard. Jack, and now there are only two. How does’that happen ?”
Jaek: “It was so dark in there, mamma, that I didn’t see the others.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XVII, 25 April 1903, Page 1184
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112Other Children’s Sayings. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XVII, 25 April 1903, Page 1184
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