“Girls” and “Boys.”
At a school examination, the inspector set the girls to write an essay on “Boys” and the boys to write one on “Girls.”
The following was handed in by a girl of 12:—
“The boy is not an animal, yet they can be heard to a considerable distance. When a boy hollers he opens his big mouth like frogs, but girls hold their tongues till they are spoken to, and then they answer respectable, and tell just how it was. A boy thinks himself clever because he can wade where it is deep, but God made the dry land for every living thing, and rested on the seventh day. When the boy grows up he is called a husband, and then he stops wading and stays out at nights, but the grew up girl is a widow and keeps house.”
One of the boys sent in:—
“Girls are very stuck up and dignified in their manners and behaveyour. They make fun of boys, and then turn round and love them. Girls are the only people that have their own way every time. Girls is of several thousand kinds, and sometimes one girl can be like several 1000 girls if she wants anything. I don’t beleive they ever killed a cat or anything. They look out every nite and say, “Oh, ain’t the moon lovely!” Thir is one thing I have not told, and that is they always now their lessons bettern boys. This is all I now about girls, and father says the less I now the better for me.”
[73.] The sum of the squares of two consecutive numbers is 1105. What are the numbers?