LITTLE PEOPLE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 197, 18 September 1878, Page 4

LITTLE PEOPLE.

' What's the matter with your eye, Tommy ?' ' Oh, it's only been going through an operation at the hands of knockDiist; that's all.' As they passed a gentleman whose optics were terribly on the bias, little Dot murmured : 'Ma, he's got one eye that don't go.' A Sunday-school boy was asked by the Superintendent if hie father was a Christian. 'Yes, sir,' he replied, « but he is not working at it much.' The boy at Sunday-school, when asked who made the beautiful surrounding hillp, replied tbat he did not know, as his parents had only moved into town the day before. ' Johnny,' said a fond father, 'you must not keep your bands in your pockets; no gentleman does it.' ' Can't beip it, pa, it's an inherited trick.' 'Oh, yes/ she said, "I'm very fond of little boys,' and as she tripped on a airing stretched across tbe pavement, she added, 'I feel as though I could eat a couple of 'em this minute, raw.' ' Pa, did you ever see the axis of the earth?' 'No, my son.' Why, pa, ain't the axes we chop wood with the axes of the earth ?' ' Smart boy ! Did you hatchet out of you own head ?' We are permitted to relate the following conversation between a ten-year-old girl and her father :—Daughter : 'Papa, is John Dash older than Henry Dash ?' Futher : * No.' Daughter : *Is Henry the oldest ?' Father impatiently _ * Well, now, if John Dash is not older than Henry, of course Hpnry is the oldest.' Daughter : 'Now, don't be too smart; they might be twins.' That was a delicate compliment a seven-year-old boy paid his mother the other evening. The family were discussing at the supper table the qualities which go to make up a good wife. Nobody thought the little fellow had been listening, or could understand the talk, till he leaned over the table and kissed his mother, and said : Mamma, when I get big enough, I'm geing to marry a lady jufet like you.' M !^ !^ LL ._ — r- „_,.