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New Zealand Tablet, 14 July 1910, Page 1118

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What kind of a noise annoys an oyster ? say it quicic, n ° ISe ann ° yS an oyster * It’s awful when you •4? n i le j e *, s y 9 u , r sailor son now ?’ stet S* s vuest din„ P e?’f USt We ° ry ,IO ' V - or we ha™ aSS

size.’ If y ° U mUSt fight ’ Bobbie > take someone of your mornim? 11, ? a P- a i. j* , am °unted to the same thing, this as I was.’ 1 IlCk6d two b ° yS ’ each of them half as big parents^ 6 Slgrid W&S born in America > of Norwegian ‘What is your nationality, Sigrid?’ asked the teacher Sigrid tossed her flaxen braids ‘ I’m an American of Norwegian design, she said proudly. American ot get l6oenfa. te a’ bed?’’ ° an yßr tell * feller whare ki " . • P^ d gentleman (dealer in second-hand furniture! • ‘Gor S' l6 my eSs° d it?™ 8 the M * "“ aal « S e s craft AI t Strt°t Wit / n l d pinster asked the captain of a the passage. 8 how he mana £ ed to get dinner on ‘rnnl , ’o r K Plied i th A e skipp f r ’ > e cook aboard.’ look a board, do you?’ rejoined the wag- ‘then I at ah ol lvents.’ beeU W ® U provided "''til Provision! this trip, iurreW nl Fraser River of British Columbia there is a big increase of sock-eye salmon ’ every fourth year, though the sock°eve for this periodicity of increase are not known 8 The sock-eye salmon has an interest all its own. This species of salmon, like all salmon on the Western Pacific soast die after spawning, even before the eggs hatch, so that no Rs aC parents 011 SaW &ny ° f its children V either of A correspondent of the London Times says in a letter m^li attent TV? *5? old prophec y that when Good Friday falls on Lady s Day a great mishap will occur may perhaps alarm some readers, for we shall have the’ same coincidence in 1921 and 1932. But the calamity of this w i9«; on y - th exce Ption that proves the rule, for in the last 125 years the same thing has happened six times and tins is the first time the saying has come true. The fact, is it happens three times at intervals of eleven years, then years does not occur > and then the cycle * The eagles of the Swiss mountains wage fierce war upon the chamois. So great is the chamois’ terror of them that a herd of twenty or more will huddle helplessly together when eagles are hovering about in the neighborhood In the early spring the latter often kill and carry oft the young kids to their eyries, and the female chamois, has been seen doing desperate battle with these fierce birds in defence of her young When hard pressed for food they will even attack the full-grown animals. They wait until they see a chamois in a difficult and dangerous place, andi then swoop down and dash it over the cliff, and devour it. at leisure.

i 4 ne m° gardener, a jolly fellow, was employed at a* school. The boys used to have great fun* with him. Sometimes however, he would prove too much for them with his; repartee. One day, in the spring, Sambo had been burning the school green in order to get , rid of the old withered grass. A young fellow came along, and, thinking to have some fun, shouted : Say, there, Sambo, you ought not tobuin that stuff! Why? inquired Sambo. ‘Because," replied the other 4 it’ll make the grass as black as you are!’’ Well, massa, retorted Sambo, ‘ dat’s all right. Yes, dat’s all right. Never fear, dat ’ere grass will come up again and be as green as you are!’ ■ ■ ■ '