SCRAPLETS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2787, 4 October 1910, Page 7

SCRAPLETS.

"Why, Bridget," exclaimed the housewife, "I can write my name in the dust here !" " 'Deed, ma'am," replied Bridget, with generous admiration, "thot's more nor I can do. Shure, now, there's nothing loike education after all, is there, ma'am ?" Her : *Richard ! Why on earth are you cutting your pie with a knife ?" Him : "Because, darling—now, understand, I'm not finding any fault, for I know that these little oversights will occur—because you forgot to give me a can-opener." "Johnny," said the boy's mother, "I hope you have been a nice quiet boy at school this afternoon." "Yes, that's what I was," answered Johnny. "I went to Bleep after dinner, and the teacher said she'd whip any boy in the room who waked me up." A crusade is being conducted against whist drives. We had heard of the motorist's stare and the tennis elbow,, but this explanation of the whistful look is new to us.