ODDS AND ENDS
Johnny came home -the other, night" in high glee,^wearing the arithmetic "medal. 'What is that for? ' asked his mother. ' That's the prize for doing examples ! ' said "Johnny. "'I did this one: "If our new baby .weighs « eleven and a half pounds, and gains an ounce each day"-^cause you told Mrs. Smith shp did yesterday — "how much will she weigh when she's. twenty years old? " -And the answer was four hundred and sixty-six-pounds. And the teacher said I earned the prize 1 * Lady Visitor — ' I've just had a letter from my son Reggie, saying he has won a scholarship. L. can't tell you how delighted I am. I n. Rustic Party — I can understand your feelings, mum. I felt just the same when bur pig won- a medal at the agricultural show !
- ' Physical culture, father, is perfectly lovely. To develop the arms- I grasp this rod by one end and move it slowly from right to left.' ' Well, -well,' exclaimed her father, 'what won't science discover? If that" rod had straw at the other end you'd Le sweeping.' • _
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New Zealand Tablet, 10 September 1908, Page 38
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180ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, 10 September 1908, Page 38
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