An explosive colonel called at an office the other day on business, and was received by the office boy. who kept him waiting.
"Can I see someone with a little authority." bawled the colonel "Well. sir, how will I do?" answer ed the boy. "I have as little as an; body here."
Happy Group Have you heard the story of the three little girls sent out of London who found a new home at a farmhouse? They asked to be allowed to share the same room. Their hostess agreed, and one of the girls wrote home jubilantly:
"We have dogs and calves and horses and pigs and cows and chickens and we all sleep in the same room."
Getting Involved The teacher sought to impress on her young pupils the fact that things could not be subtracted from one another unless they were of the same denomination. "For example." she continued, "we cannot take five apples from six bananas."
Then the young genius spoke up. There is always at, least one in every classroom. He said: "But can't we take five apples from three trees Eetty's Observations Little Betty, returning from school one afternoon. said: "Johnny Wilson's examination papers were so good that teacher keeps them on her desk to show visitors."
Asked about her own. she had to confess that they weren't good.
"But why aren't yours as good as Johnny's?" her mother asked. "You have the same opportuni "I know, mother," said Betty. "but Johnny Wilson comes from a very bright family."
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