CHILDREN’S DROLLERIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2826, 15 April 1882, Page 2

CHILDREN’S DROLLERIES.

; The interest shown in the droll doings-; arid amusing observations' of little folks, ■ is proved by the'kuccess of recent works' 1 ' on the subject. Most of us have some time or another heard children come but with as comical things as any, invented or otherwise, that, we, see, cjironicled-.r Hot long since,, a correspondent serif; to ‘ a provincial paper an anecdote of the kind referred to, of which his six-year-old boy was the -hero; He says—“ I keep a shop, and sell fancy goods. A gentleman came in to buy sbriieihirig. It was early, and- my little boy and,! were alone in the house at the time. The gentleman gave me a sovereign, and 1 had to go upstairs tb my cash-box.' Before doing so; I went into the little room next to the shop and said to the boy—‘Watch 1 the gentleman; that he don’t steal anything;’ and I put him on the counter. As soon as ,1 returned, ha. sang out—‘ Pa, he didn’t steal anything ’ —I watched him,’ You may imagine what a position I was in.” : '• Apt replies 'of little- people when scolded or questioned find many illustrations, as, for example,''when a little girl, after 'being sharply reproved by her mother for some misconduct, said, after a moment’s pause—“l should fink, inamma, from the way you treat me,you was my stop-mo vver.”—A four-year-old boy lying iri a bed in which his brother was also to sleep, replied, when his mother exclaimed—“ Why, Tommy, you are lying right in the middle of the bed ; what will poor Harry do?” “Well, mother Harry has got both side.” Another youngster of about the same age, seated at the tea-table, said may I have some sardines ? ” “ Wait till I’m ready, child.” “ Why, Ma, it’s me as wants ’em, I ', was the comment in tones of surprise,—A boy 'who. had always refused to eat oatmeal, in spite of his ■ Uier!s urginga thet; jt, y^as. .a stn-; , aiening diet,; .suddenly her one : morning byvegtjrig' a liberal plateful and calling for.mprei Upon his mother asking for an explanation, he replied : “I affi.boriridtQJeritoatmeal till 1 am strong enough to whip Johnny Scott.’.