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Rough On The Parson

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Day
27
Month
September
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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McBride told a party of his friend this story : ' ' Yon know, boys, little people have sharp ears, and they are not at all baakward about telling any little scraps of inf ormation they piek up. This peculiarity has led a good many parents to resort to spelling words when their young children are present. Of conrse that sort of thing is of no avail af ter the youugsters learn to spell. Well, Mrs. McBride and I are in the spelling stage now, and little Freddie is often véry much mystified by our remarks to each other. Last uight we had our new minister to dinner, and Freddy watched the good man helping himself very liberally to biscuits. He thought it a good opportunity to put into use the family verbal cipher, feeling perfectly certain that the minister would flnd it unintelligible, so he called out, 'Mamma!' " 'What is it, Freddy?' " 'Mamma, isn't the m-i-n-i-s-t-e-r a p-i-g?' spelled out Freddy

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