Fables.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 256, 18 April 1888, Page 5

Fables.

One day a fly sat on a tree near a poml intently gazing at the playful anticb of the seals. All at once ho said to himself, ' I'd like to know if that tunny bubine&s on their aides is tin-* or feet.' So saying he flew to see, and perched on the wet breast of a seal and stuck there, and before ho could extricate himself the seal again leaped into the w? Lei, and the fly was drowned. Moral— Don't be too fly about getting- stuck on people until you are pretty well acquainted with their private habits. The Chichestev Board of Guardians have just been bettling a knotty point. The children of the workhouse had been to a Christmas ticat at the Bishop's Palace. Among- the toys brought back by them ucrc home dominoes. The local (.Government Board prohibited games of chance ; did playing dominoes constitute such a game 'I That wa- the question propounded by the master to the guardian*?, and they, looking upon the game us> one of skill rather than chance, decided to permit the children to go on playing it. It will be for the Local Government Board to interfere if ib like-> now. Little Josef Hofman, the infants phenome non, is not satisfied merely with his fame as a pianist. In New York the other night the prodigy faced the orchestra as a leader and a composer. His composition, which ho calls ' Polonaise Americaine/ proved a graceful, rythmical piece of work, without any striking merit. When the admirable child, led by his father, stepped to the conductor's seat, the regular leader of the Opera Hou&o presented him with a baton of gold set with jewels. There was a burst ot laughter when the boy waved his stick in the air, but it quickly subsided into something like awed silence, as the vast audience noted his perfect mastery of the highest, t'oim of the musician's* art.