Show boy cornhill magazine crows crow a arc are thought wise gee geese be are not A well known passage in the ana basit tells us tha chaton on a certain bocc occasion aion all tle the soldiers Bol diere escaped unhurt but one man on the left wing was said to be shot the translator by transposing the worda words said one was aid said to be shot on the left wing on which a sharp boy aptly remar remarked koh 11 II lie must have been a goose thie this recalls to the writers re mind ind another ready remark in bee class the muster master asked the gender of a welsh boy said it was neuter on which the master observed 1 I dont know what hares may be called in wales but the tile call them masculine 11 please sir air quickly remarked a ne neighboring I 1 bo rin bo boy 71 hee lies thinking of a wj welsh sh rabbit rabbit these jesters were about 10 years old it is is fearful to think what they may become if we descend from goose to duck which one boy thought to be a young svan swan wee we shall hall find another eccentricity of genius A clas class was practicing for examination each boy had bad before him a printed paper among the w words in the first question was anas which is usually supposed to mean a duck but one boy on being asked the tile meaning of it found the association of bound sound too much for his senses and promptly said high priest priest suggests clergy A boy enumerating in a written ritten emay gods good gifts to man closed his list with insects reptiles clergymen was he a blunderer or a cynic |