His mother, noticing a troubled look on his face as he looked
about, said:
"What's the matter, dear? Don't you like the beautiful country?"
"Yes, mother, but on _my_ map Maine is _red_!"
FATHER--"Now James, get ready. I'm going to hear your geography
lesson. What have the various expeditions to the North Pole
accomplished?"
JIMMY--"Nothin' 'cept to make the geography lessons harder."
The geography lesson was about to begin, and the subject of it was
France.
Accordingly, the teacher started off with the question: "Now in this
present terrible war, who is our principal ally?"
"France," came the answer from a chorus of voices.
"Quite right," said the teacher, beaming. "Now can any of you give me
the name of a town in France?"
A small boy at the back of the class almost fell over in his eagerness
to tell; "Somewhere," he said, breathlessly.
GERMANY
"Germany's claim that she imports nothing, buys only of herself, and
so is growing rich from the war, is a dreadful fallacy."
The speaker was Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the American Food
Board.
"Germany," he went on, "is like the young man who wisely thought he'd
grow his own garden-stuff. This young man had been digging for about
an hour when his spade turned up a quarter.
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