His Little Majesty.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 320, 28 November 1888, Page 5

His Little Majesty.

4 *^^^BfcHEN His Little Majesty Is^^Jr reaches the age of two years, Wvin*t lr ' le becomes ver y enthusias- ' (vDvf *' C) anc * s en t'hu&iasm leads .-<> him to do many of tho?e things which he ought nob to do. And the trouble is, that when he is caught at ins mißdeeds ho is not punished. He has the faculty of appearing very cunning ab the proper time, and of evading sundry applications of the well - merited slipper. Pie even has a keen appreciation of the cleverness of his bricks, for he will lead you smilingly to the spot where he has been pounding cinders in your stove-pipe hat, probably thinking the relations existing between the stove-pipe and the stove justify the combination. When the hat full of cinders looms up in your vision, the baby dancea with delight, and laugh? as though his heart would bieak. Yon know just what ought to be done with him, bub you can't make up your mind bo do it. On another occasion, you will catch him humming some baby song while sitting on the dining-room table, emptying a bottle of chow - chow down the lamp chimney. Even his mother laughs, in spite of her efforts to appear angry, when she finds him on the back step standing by the icecream freezer, which has been prepared tor expected company, and observes him pouring the contents out of the coal shovel for the cab and kittens, and only regretful that) the dainty is still warm. He will take out the silverware basket, and walk about, scattering the spoons and forks like seeds, as though planting a silverplated mine. He takes special delight in getting the carving - knife, and walking about on the slippery floors with it, where a fall might prove fatal. And when at the railroad station, he will walk oft a platform twenty- five wide to get on the narrowguage track, where he may enjoy the felicity of being in jeopardy. He has also a habit of hiding things away, or rather leaving them wheie they don'tj belong. That is the reason you find your hair-brush under the andirons, and a jai of marmalade in the chiffonniere, on your dress shirts. He will threw jewellery in the h"re, and kindling - wood undui " tht bed-clothes. He cheerfully allows the Ii isb setter to take from his hand the ginger-snap that he would nob surrender to his father. and he amuses himself by tying his w hiU Tarn O'Shanter on the same animal's head, and making him look like the Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. Sometimes he will lather the good-natured beast with his father's shaving-brush, an< 'he dog will not wince, even when the soao rauses tears to run down his checks, .-in i »is eyeballs to split. He is always up j* something, is this mischievous "ivite ->t humanity, and, somehow or other, tho Brorse he is, the more love and affection .ire oestowed upon him. His capacity for wischief is his real capital. He can hava ill the candy and attention he can stand ai ;he time that he is caught riding downstairs n his carnage, or cleaning the ;lobe with his favourite tortoise • shell (ibten.