Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42783, 26 September 1905, Page 4

Odds and Ends.

1 ,• ,' , ; 1(4 ; B^eid ; kndsQbeoae the west of Scotland there still exis 8 ciirit ms dread of telling: the v 0.. infants' baptised. 1 AH uuilly he suspended, and the chia w hailed by having been brought 1 presenting the Child oaptism,' it jJ&U child’s hehd must be on'th® •, right arnxqf the thhle paifut, ana that. when a uuihber of bapttf nri wfM W %' at the same time, a 1 the nwie blit Idren | take the precedence of the temale. "A custom existed in country pluc si ,for a mother when carrying her child to church to : he baptised, to take along , • with her L a considerable supply/of bread and cheese, a portion of, whiph r was given to the public road after ing ner house. 1 A Dog’s Sagacity^— other.,day four men in the country nei.*.GiTgenti, ; Scilly, gained entrance to a house-by,;.. representing themselves is baving^fln;,;! % shouting aU day,and consequently being .ery thirsty 1 . Once iqwjc,.! they |>i»\ / duced their and; confronting the Bole occttpant@,who r - - •>e two young orpthe^, ; they, tied V.nctbi :a chair and took the other, leaving a letteron the tajhlp. ing 40 000 francs for the rqiui'ji of the s r ; v boy. They took him io a caye in,, iiiUs, and, guarding the entranp?*;^’4: :m «da as merry as circumstances r ppr- ;, . uuted, Meauwbilo.the boy. , : iware that his pet dog, had4fleit.;.v.* illowcd to accoppany biiu, was busy • ligging a hole,' he thought,.but spon , Vy : daylight was to be seen, and;-he dja*/ : ierstood that that was a way out. The faithful little’ animal wotkes, on, for*,., some hours, by which time there, was . a hole big enough for his master to push through. The biigapds were, blissfully ignorant, ,»n l oply woke t 0..., the true, position of'atfiirs when .they v. were confronted by the ca. abmeeju ' v and their late victim-*, and cVin yet. iU ”, prison, they are wondering h >W that boy got out. , ;V-> : An Unlucky Gift.-r The Ital.an Queen recently noticed ja a **’, ® '*} ; suburb a pleasant faced, little girl, aud spoke Ito her. There was a little citt, . vernation, and the Queen asked .tlio ; . girl what she could do in tie - way of. <

needlework. I caa knit stockings, ,. t signord,” replied the girl. ‘‘.Do you know who I am ? ” continued.'the the Queen. “ Yeis,, signora; yc u .? a^ e /;f; g the Queen.” Wbll,* then,, niake me g a pair of stockings and, sand them to the palate.” : to ithe stockings arrived, and .Q u f®®! Eelena.in refufh for the gift sent the child a beautiful pair of ros* •o’dtU e d ;,g stockings, the oue filled with the other containing, nioney. l«e?t;gg day the Queen received a letter xronx -g/ the little friend, couohed, in the folloty-* ing words Signora.,your gift has| caused me no end of tiars. My father,., collared the money; my yider brotbey grabbed the sweets; and as to. the JB stockings, why, mother piit them 0n,.,,W| herself.” >