MIDGET'S LOVE PUZZLE. Showing How " Heaven Lies About Us In Our Infancy."

Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 3

MIDGET'S LOVE PUZZLE. Showing How " Heaven Lies About Us In Our Infancy."

How a tot -\v ifch pleasing ingenuity told her love is l elated in the " Christian Weekly. The littlo story is enough to warm the cold cockles of a cynic's heart : Mrs Rlanchard was entertaining some friends in the parlour one evening, when she hoard a small voice she knew so well saying : "Please 'scupe me, mamma." Then she saw a little figure standing in the doorway in a white nightgown, with tangled curls and blight eyes, too bright for 10 o'clock at night, thought Mrs Blanchard. Midget ran across the room to the refuge that had never failed her— mother's arms " Mamma, dear, 5 ' pleaded the little nightowl, " I have just learned to-day how to tell you I love you in such a beautiful new way. Please, may I show you ? I'm so 'fraid I'll forget by morning." Midget held up her dimpled lingers. " Now,everybodydo jusfc as I do," she said, gleefully. "Hold your thumbs together so, now the next fingers the same way, but the next to that you must double in tight." She held her chubby fingers in this position, the palms together, the thumbs lightly touching, also the forefingers, but the second fingers folded so fchab her rosy nails and the dimples that stood for knuckles touched, then the third and fourth fingers met at the tips as the thumbs and forefingers did. " Now," cried Midget) id great delight, how far can you go from nurse ?" and she parted the thumbs as far as they would go. "Now how far from cook ?" and the forefingers went apart. Then in suppressed glee she carefully explained, " You must skip the folded fingers and go to the next. Now, how far can you go from your dear, sweet mamma?" she cried in great triumph. And odd ifc was that those queer little fingers would nofc separate, and the more you tried the closer they were, not Midget's tiny fingers, but papa's strong ones and Judge Mills's wrinkled ones. And as long as the second fingers arc held in bondage the third ones will not separate. Try it.