A SMALL JEHU.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1016, 4 January 1911, Page 10

A SMALL JEHU.

It seems incredible, says' an Australian writer, but it is true, that a little laddie of 2 can drive a pair of horses in a buggy! The iriite cannot talk even! A friend of mine has been driven by him, and says that it was really funny to watch the baby "shortening up the reins," "looking where ho was going," arid "dodging round logs," as tho father directed him. It was a bush track, too, on a South Australian station! The guest sat one sido of the buggy, tho father tho other, and tho driver in,tho centre! ' '•

' Don't let young children handle, money (says an American "writer). Parents frequently give the tiny tot the car faro .to hand to tho conductor, and the next minute the same little- fingers gb into tho baby's mouth or eye. Today when I saw. the dirty, consumptivelooking vegetable : peddler extract change froni his nockct and drop it from his filthy fingers" into tho rosy nalm of a little toddler who stood by her mother's skirts, I was moved for the thousandth time to cry out, "Don't letbabies toucli money, any more than you would let them touch their precious tongues to the pavement."