Net Miles Of Smiles

An old pastor made it a practice to visit the parish

school one day a week. He walked into the 4th grade class,

where the children were studying the states, and asked

them how many states they could name. They could only come

up with about 40 names.

 
He jokingly told them that in his day students knew the

names of all the states.

One lad snickered, “Yes, but in those days there were only

13.”