THE LITTL FOLKS.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 April 1887, Page 7

THE LITTL FOLKS.

When is an artist like a cook ?— When he* drawing a little duck.

The following contains an admirable hint for both ministers and teachers : — Rev. Smith Baker, of Lowell, Mass., knows a short cut to the hearts of the host of children in his charge. First loarning^he birthday of each, he enters all in a record. Then, as the happy anniversary for each little parishioner arrives, he sends a leaflet or card with a pastor's blessing and a word of counsel.

An old bed-rid peasant in Fife one daycalled to his grandson, a little boy, " Jock, bring me a drink o' cauld water." Jock, who remembered that there was no water in the house except a small quantity at the bottom of a pitcher which had become muddy, asked the venerable relation if ho would prefer it with what he called "a ditcher o' meal on the tap o't." "No," answered the old man, " bring it by itself." "Then," said Jock, in a tone of evident? chagrin, "I'll hae to gang to the well forV

A little boy was once walking along a dusty road ; the sun was very warm and oppressive, but, as was his usual way, he stepped along quickly, thinking the faster he walked the sooner he would reach the end of his journey. He soon heard a carriage coming, and when it had come up with him the driver reined in his horse and kindly asked the lad to ride, which he gladly accepted. When he was seated in the waggon the gentleman, a good old Quaker, said, "I noticed thee walking along briskly, and so asked thee to ride ; but if I had s«en thee walking lazily I would not have done so by any meane." Boys, think of this, and you will always be paid for your trouble in some way.