The Little People.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1683, 10 July 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Little People.

I A little boy in the grammar echool returned ' home late on Monday, to explain to his pareut that he had beeD punished. He said: 'No boy hasn't never been whipped harder than me this afternoon.' A teacher in the Port Jervis public school was last week explaining to the children that usually all words ending with 'let' meant somei thing small, as streamlet, rivulet, hamlet, etc. Whereupon a smart boy wanted to know if hamlet meant a small ham. A little girl at school read thus : ' The widow lived on a small limbacy left her by a relative.' ' What did you call that word ?' asked the teacher; ' the word is legacy, not limbacy.' 'But,'said the little girl, 'my sister says I must say limb, not leg.' A bright little boy in Nashville, just three years old, is, like most little chaps of his age, sometimes refractory. In order to curb him and make him a good little boy, his mother often threatened him with a peach-tree ' persuader.' The little fellow has come to understand any allusion to the peach-tree and usually subides when it is spoken of. A few days ago, since the flowering of the fruit trees, a slight reference was made to this same tree, when the little fellow made peace for the rest of the day by looking up and saying : ' Why, mamma, the switches are covered with roses.' Jimmy Brown came running into Mrs. Jones's house the other day saying: ' Oh, dear, Mrs Jones! Such an accident has happened. Your son John got under a four-horse load of pig iron down at the river, and it ran right over his "head. Oh, dear!' Poor Mrs. Jones screamed and nearly fainted, when the little rascal added : ' Dont cry, Mrs. Jones, he wasn't hurt a bit.' ' Why, what ( do you mean ? Run over by a four-horse wagon load jof pig iron and hot hurt ?' ' Well, you see,' I the wagon was passing over' the bridge and he i was sitting under it fishing,' replied the [ little rascal shooting oufr_ft.be open door. : *__._—-+ - .; — { ■