SCHOOL-BOY HUMOR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2425, 13 February 1909, Page 9 (Supplement)

SCHOOL-BOY HUMOR.

SOME CURIO US. ANSWERS. The child-mind is absolutely fresh and alert. It is to the adult mind as is the plastic clay to the baked brick. It is not already overlaid with impressions; it is: not restricted, in its elasticity bv the petrifying effects of already-received preconceptions; it is refreshingly new and instantly impressionable. It is because of this that a youngster wrote: “A vacuum is nothing shut -up* in a box.” It is because of this, too, that the litt'ie girl said: “The*zebra is like a horse, only striped, and used to illustrate the letter Z.” ■Owing its origin to the same freshness of view, we get the following. Two children being awakened one morning, and being told that they had a new little brother, were keen, as children are, to know whence and how he had come. “It must have been thhe milkman,” said the g. r • “Why the milkman?’ asked her little brother. “Because it says on his cart ‘Families 1G ~ plied the sister. . , ' Not less quaintly ingenuous and fresh is the reply of a 'httle chap m a’ nature-study lesson. Thank, sakl the teacher, ‘ of. a httle creatine that wriggles about an the earth and sometimes comes to the top. through a tiny hole.” A small boy in. a pinafore put up Ins hand joyously. “■Well 9 ” queried the teacher a worm,” said the .small boy. Yes, Jai l the. teacher, “now think of another'little creature that xvrigg.es about in the earth, and comes to the top through a small 'J lO^ ILKfnmM. the bomelv wisdom and shrexxdness that it not infrequently, displays and the pathos that—iso 'far as the working-class children are concerned tso often discovers, are engross"gly interesting.. Take the case of try the inspector xvho, pntSf a P “mStal arithmetic” question, SK “K I tad Zm . *•. ; 6r ; N &“-iroto* 'vou’don’t understand my qnestion”’ retorted ceoding s rcc cn-ing the several tunes, anx a* “None TtSheeakl: ‘“-At; my hoy arithmetic. therA unsvered ‘instance of the Again there i desperation, little chap driveu inr of the and escaping wor ld?” imagination. ' , testy inspector snapped rather U Y * sl IZ S No ISower. Several- t-J y . r. -fiiA Questions, »o r-* repeated angry each time, louder and more an y nea ding At last a Poor httle teliov, his eyes yigorousy w , it was blubbered more!” me. 'Blit Urvon tl tiki Scotch . XVliich recalls tom,) fc ])d chestnut : the . ,L fYj^ e p „ pa o ße JaiiseHhe pair man side, child? “ , t” W as the Humor,” by Dr Macnamara, M.l •