What Pa Doesn't Know.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XVII, 24 October 1903, Page 61

What Pa Doesn't Know.

Most every day when I’m at school The teacher tells us things About the birds and animals And Presidents and Kings, And then, at night, when I ast pa If what she says Is so. His reads his paper right along And says: “Oh, I dunno!” One day she told us that the world Is round, just like a ball, And that there's nothing down below It’s standin’ on at all. I ast pa If she told the truth. He read his paper though. And put his feet up on a chair. And said: “Oh, 1 dunno!” And onee the teacher said the sky Ain’t heaven’s floor, and tried To make us think no angels walk Along the other side, And so that night I ast my pa. And all he said was: “Oh, Dont' bother me about such things; I’m busy—l dunno!” I used to kind of think somehow That my pa knew a lot— But that was wrong, or if he did I guess that he’s forgot. Since I’ve started into school, Most every day or so I hear about a hundred things I’a doesn't seem to know.