AN INFANT PRODIGY
A professor of a certain college, who has .greatly endeared himself to the students on account of his kindheartedness, has one particular failing—absent-minded-ness. He visited his married nephew a few days ago, and had listened to the young wife’s praise of her firstborn. The gentleman felt that he must say something to give the impression that he was interested. ‘Can the dear little fellow walk?’ he inquired quietly. ‘Walk!’ the mother cried indignantly. ‘Why, he has been walking for five months.’ ‘Dear me!’ the professor exclaimed, lapsing again into abstraction; ‘ what a long way he must have got!’
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New Zealand Tablet, 30 May 1912, Page 62
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101AN INFANT PRODIGY New Zealand Tablet, 30 May 1912, Page 62
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