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"Howlate jerstay?"
"Pastate."
"Lemmeknow wenyergoagin, woncher? I wantergo'n'show yer howterskate."
"H'm, ficoodn't skate better'n you I'd sell-out'n'quit."
"Well, we'll tryeranc'n'seefyercan."
Here, as they took different streets, their conversation ceased.
A writer in the "School-boy Magazine" has gathered together the following dictionary words as defined by certain small people:
- Bed-time—Shut eye time.
- Dust—Mud with the juice squeezed out.
- Fan—A thing to brush warm off with.
- Fins—A fish's wings.
- Ice—Water that staid out in the cold and went to sleep.
- Monkey—A very small boy with a tail.
- Nest-Egg—The egg that the old hen measures by, to make new ones.
- Pig—A hog's little boy.
- Salt—What makes your potato taste bad when you don't put any on.
- Snoring—Letting off sleep.
- Stars—The moon's eggs.
- Wakefulness—Eyes all the time coming unbuttoned.
The following specimens from scholars' examinations in making sentences to illustrate the definitions of words, found in their small dictionaries, will have a familiar sound to some of our readers: