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Show What Ho Wanted to Say. A teacher who had taken great trouble trou-ble to impress every detail of the his- tory lesson upon his class was sadly disappointed, on asking the name of the king who reigned previous to Queen Victoria, to find only one hand upheld. up-held. "Boys," said the teacher sternly pointing as he spoke to the boy whose anxious desire to impart the necessary information compelled him to use strenuous efforts to increase his diminutive dimin-utive stature, "one of your intelligent little schoolfellows will tell you what none of you have the brains to know. Although the youngest in the class, his is an example that it would be a credit for many of you to emulate. Now, then, Johnny, tell them." "Please, teacher, Jim Mills bin and runned a pin into me!" Then the intelligent little boy sat down. London Weekly Telegraph. |