Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4409, 20 February 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

"How pretty he is—your little boy!" "Oh wut ha? He is charming! and so precocious ! What'do you think ?He ■ is only three years old and already he calls ms grandmother • old warming pan!' " "I'd like you to help me a little," said a tramp, poking, his head into a country genew.'. shop. <hWhy don't yotKlelp yourself?" returned the proprietor anjzrilv. " Than 1- you, I will!" said the tramp, v ' he picked up a bottle of pickles and two loares of bread, and disappeared. A fluteless flautist in spoken of in Havre as performing wonderful things. He makes a flute out of his left hand, which he holds to his mouth, using the right in lieu of stops. The notes be produces are not to be distinguished from those of the real instrument. '.'...• A lawyer proposed to a client to' under* take a case on the following terms—"lf I lose," said he. "I get nothing* If I win, you get nothing." A rather elderly darkey was inquiring: of a policeman if he knew anything of his. son Pete.—> The policeman replied that there was n young darkey in the lock up for breaking up a prayer meeting with an. axe-handle.—" Dafs him," exclaimed the orerjoyed parent. «He told me be wa&. • gwine to 'muse bisself? "