SOME CHILD STORIES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 269, 6 August 1908, Page 5

SOME CHILD STORIES.

Children aro never' flippant and frivolous' • (says a;.-in-iter- in '''MvA.P ")• ' They take, everything seriously. The other day I met;a: littlo; maid carrying- a .beautifully; hideous golliwog.'. There was a severe abrasion on the . tip of his'cloth nose. : ''Poor fellow," said I, "what lias happened to his nose?" The young woman looked' gravely at mo and re-, plied: His nose is peeling with the sun like, . mine." '. Another little girl Iknow is "almost . .. aitchless. ■■-'When I tossed her .in the' air, sho, f, protested, saying, '.' You 'urt' me." I rebuked '«r "My dear;'' said' I, '" you mustn't •:« drof. your aitches."-■ She was quite calm and •unciMiabrned. • "It doesn't matter,?', she re-- » tortw l " my: Nanny : jickb them up." •. - The. •' : minx was' a. spoiled sybarite; on whom hot:, 'trso waited hand and foot. ,-She did not knov what aitches were, but she was quite > ;• rtat it was part of .the duty of her, nurse ■ to'ijipk thom'up. I heard:the'same' small "J girl singing, "Now the day is over,"- and If . s was -.nleased; to - discover', that she.yhad in-. •;s''a, delightful"new.-,word U;"'. , : ;.tho"darkness gathers, ; Stars begin to. peep,': ■ Birds and beasts and llowerworks . Soon will be asleep.. . V ' , ' I like childish neologisms.A boy once told .-„ no.that he had been nearly "fishwrecked!'. she day, like Robinson Crusoe. I think " fishwrecked " : is .much more- picturesque jhan "shipwrecked."