About Little Folks.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

About Little Folks.

TnErLatest'Ouii.-iThe"bdy "*ho }is "kept after school."

Practical Demonstration..;- — A 'teacher having asked his class to write an essay, on "The Kesultsof Laziness," a"certain bright youth handed in as his composition"a' blank sheet of paper.

" What is' the matter "with the baby?'! asked a lady of a' little' girl whose 'J&aby brother"sheJiad understood to be'ailing. "Oh,: nothin'-much," was the "answer. " He's only hatching teefch."

'•"My boy," said a father, toJh' is son, "treat everybody with , poll t^rTess, even those who are rude to you. Tor "remember that • you - show courtesy^ to 'ofcHem pop because they "are gentlemen, "But - because you are one.

'' You r papa and mamma know what" is best for you, Tommy," . sa^d ~ Tommy's mother. The little fellow' rolled' about a good deal ■on the rug,;,and. then;said, " Mamma, doypu know sohietimes I feel I should awfully like to be an orphan."

A little boy had ; spent , : his first ;*fay sohopl. ''■ What did you learn ?" was Ms auntie's question. ".Didn't) learn -anything." " Well, what c did .you -do?" "Didn't do ; anything. There: was a woman wanting- to know how to spell cat, and I told her." •

'Uncle: "So,, my dear.iboyj you haven't forgotten youi-. uncle's birthday, harve^you I You have boaghtthis nice present to me. Thanks, little nephew. Here's a shiliing for you." I/ittle nephew : " 800-ooh-ooh. It cost one and sixpence.''

"How many zones are .there?" Boy: "Six." "No, there are only five." "Yes, there are six," "Name them." "The torrid zone, the northern and southern temperate, the northern and .southern frigid " "That's . five. What ia tke other zone ?" 4tO»zone." .1

One day a little girl about live years old heard «, preacher praying, most lustily, till the roof rang with the strength of his supplications. Tflrning to her mother, and beckoning the maternal rear down to a 3peaking place, she "whispered, "Mother, don't you think that if he lived nearer to God, he wouldn't have to talfcao loud ?"

A Noun.—^Whon Walter Scotfc at school, aboy in the same'olass'was^aefcedby the dominie what: part -.of speech loith was? "A noun, sir," . said : the boy. "You blockhead," said the pedagogue, 1' what example can ; you -give, of such a thln^?" "I can tell you, sir," : interrupted; Scott; '' there's a verse in the Bible->vhrch says they bound Sampson with withs."

An old gentlemapj. on up-his paper, found that he had mielaid his spectacles. '' What ax nuisance !" he exclaimed. "I have4ost.'my,glaese3,some- :- where, an&Z can't read .the paper.!1 Whereupon ,his little ,three-andra-half-year old grandchild, desiring to apsist. 'him, suggested, " (j'an'pa, you go .outsideand, look froo ze window, and I'llliold ze paper up so you can read ib."

The mother of two sons, twinsj metdneof the 'brot/hers in • a ififeld One 'morning. "'Which of you tv?o; tooy8 atn I'speakiiig to?" asked them Other ; "is it you or -your brother?" "Why do'youfcsk?" inqfuired the lad, prudently. ' "Because if it is your brother I will box his ears." '' It is"not 'my ■brother ; it is I." '^ThSn jybur brother* w wearirigyour coat, lor'yduirs'-bad a hole in it." "No, mother, lam^wearitig-myown coat." " Good heavens !"'■shrieked the motherj looking athim intently, '*you -'are your brother after "all."