LITTLE FOLKS' COLUMN.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 241, 13 October 1886, Page 4

LITTLE FOLKS' COLUMN.

" Rooi1 to all ovor,' was a 4-year-old', do finition of tho »ky. Why is the letter O. like the sun? — Becouso it is tho contro of light.

A littlo follow ono day nonplussed his mother by making tho following inquiry :— " Mother, if a man Is o'oiister, aint a woman a mistery ?"

Small Boy: "Mo, pass tho bread." Mother (stornly) : "If whet, my eon?" Small boy (smartly) : " If you can reach It."

Young Americ%.—Wendoll Phillips says " Put an American baby six months old on his feot and be will immediately say ' Mr Chairman,' and call tho n»xt cradle to order."

Little Chorlie—Papa, will you buy me a drum ? Fond father- Ah, but my boy, you will disturb me very much if I do. Charlie —Oh, no papa, I won't drum excopt whon you're nslcep. A littlo girl nine years old, having attended a soirde, being asked by her mother on returning how tbo enjoyed herself "answered, "I am fall of happiness. I couldn't be any happier unless I could grow."

A little friend of ours a few days sgo, while coming down stairs, was cautioned by his mother not to lose his balance. The qurstion which followed was a puzzler: — " Mother, if I should lose my balance, where weuld it go to ?"

The little one, being a guest of her grandma, had been liberally feasted, when a second dish of pudding came on. Looking at the steaming dish, she exclaimed with a sigh, ] "Say, gran'n-a I wish I was twinß."

Jamie is a little Boston boy. Last summer he went with Uncle Tom to a little town away down in Maine for a week's fishing. The next morning after their arrival Uncle Tom asked a man about tho best placo to go to. " Well," tho man answered, " there's trout in most any brook, and there's plenty o' petch in tho river." Jamie heard and ho looked puzzled. He didn't say a word then, but a little while afterwards he asked Undo Tom : •' What do thoy have perches in tho river for, Uncle Tom t For the fishes to roost on ?"