Mercy on Us.
" Don't you think uhe's pretty ? " said the fond mother to the father as she stroked the baby's silken hair. The father was in a sulky mood ; something had disagreed with him, and he replied somewhat curtly : " Oh, all babies are about alike. They look like little monkeys." Just then a neighbor entered, and taking the baby on her lap said : " Mercy on us ! how like ita father that child 'si " — Somcrville Journal.
Therb i a girl in Milwaukee whose legs from <. knees to the toes, after twelve o'clock at night, are totally insensible to feeling. Such a girl might at least possess one merit : She wouldn't grumble when her husband endeavored to warm his cold feet on her. — Ohicago Times.
Foresight. — Miss Edith (aged six) : " Mamma, they say the Gibbses have come into a whole lot of money. Ella Stanford says they are real common and vnlgar, bnt I think wo had beiter be very nice to them, as there are two boya in the family about my age, and when I grow up something might come of it, you know."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1866, 21 June 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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184Mercy on Us. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1866, 21 June 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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