INFANTILE WIT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3067, 12 March 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

INFANTILE WIT.

Some quaint sayings of children are recorded in Truth. Tliey are specimens selected from competitions for prizes offere Ito thu-e who send in the best. A bibyof 3 watching the cook plucking a goose, suited, " Arc you undressing him to give him his bathV' This was pure -impliuity ; but there must liavu been •some worthy experience in the mind of the child who endevoured to extenuate

ilie conduct of the Levite in tlu parable of the Good Symariti un by HUifge-ting -bat p-rhaps lit! had to ketch tlm last, train tjr Jerusalem. The influence of the universal patent automatic sweetmeat machine is ; e ceptiblo in ttie question of a little boy, who on putting a penny in the offertorv box on Sunday asked his mother

which she thought would come out chocolate or caramels. In another contribution the story is told of a little girl who on beiui; reminded she had forgotten to say her grace, putting her hands up softly and shutting her eyes, said " Excuse me , Amen." There might be added to the collection an incident that hap-

pened not long ago on a suburban railway. A child of 4 sat with her mother in a railway carriage, and both watched the shuutiug of some carriages aud saw the porter place himself between them undthe train to which they were to be added. He was pioteotud by the buffer.-', but at the angle at which the spectators sat these were invisible. After the porter had coupled the links together ho energed into full view, when the child calmly asked : " Mother, why wasn't that man flattened