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Patea Mail, 29 May 1882, Page 4

Ouida’s pseudonym is her own corrup- . tion, when a baby, of her name, Louisa. “ Papa,” said a sweet little girl to her father, a grim old lawyer, “ could you make a pun or joke on pudding ?” “ Sueit,” replied the man of law When the indulgent mother calleth her son, she gently, and in high soprano notes screameth—“ Charlie-e ! Charlie-e ! but Charlie cometh not, nor doth he give the sound a thought, but goeth about the business of his play. But when his sire, ' enraged at the-dilatory movements of his offspring, calleth qnicbly and sharply, “ Charles Fredrick ! ” Charles Fredrick hustleth homewards with alacrity, merely stopping by the way to insert the cover of his best spelling-book where it will do the most good.

Beware of backing off embankments. We have tried it, and there is no fun in rolling down hill in the arms of a horse and buggy. “ That fellow is just like a telescope,” said a dashing New York girl. “ Yon can draw him but, see through him,.and shut him up again.”

A lady who had been travelling in ltaly was_ asked by a friend how she liked Venice. “Oh ! very much indeed,” was the reply. “I was unfortunate enough, however, to arrive just at the time of a flood, and we had to go about the streets n boats.”