8 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 14

SAYINGS OF CHILDREN.

[To TIM EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.")

Sin,—A quondam teacher in a school tells me of an odd answer which she herself saw in an examination paper. Q. What do you know of the Atlas Mountains?" A. "The Atlas Mows-

talus run all round Africa, closely followed by the Pyrenees." The following answer my informant heard only at second hand, but on good authority. Q. "What do you know of the cedar tree P" A. "It has dark leaves, and the pencils hang on the branches."—I am, Sir, &c.,

Hotel Angleterre, Biarritz. LIONEL A. TOLLEMACHE.