CHILDREN'S SAYINGS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 30, Issue 9182, 15 September 1899, Page 6

CHILDREN'S SAYINGS.

Little Edith was repeating the Lord's prayer after'her mother one evening, and when she reached the part that relates to onr daily bread, she paused and said : " Mamma, 'oa might mention to Dod zat I like butter on it, too." Little Mamie had heard Bomeone use the word"sockdolager," and asked her 5-year-old brother what it meant. " Why,"-he replied, with the air of one possessing superior knowlege, " it's when you go to church and the preacher gets tired of talking, and he says : ' Let us sing the sockdolager." •'Father," said the little son of a clergy-. man, " I think you told a story this morning when you was preaching.'* *' Why, what do you mean ?" asked the good man in surprise. ', " Well, answered, th.e observing little fellow, " you said * One more word and I' have done,' and then you went right on and talked for nearly ten minutes." Small 6-year-old Tommy, in company with his mamma and a cousin from Boston, aged 6, was walking through Lincoln Park, when he espied a Bign reading " Keep off the grass." " What does that:mean, mamma ?," he asked. Before she could reply the young Bostonian answered, "It is evidently meant to infer that the sanctity of the lawn should be preserved. A minister wan dining with, -a family of whiah little 4-year-old Bessie was a prominent member. When.her father began to carve the turkey he asked the minister which part he preferred and was told that it was immaterial. After a time it was Bessie's torn to be served, and in reply to a similar query frpip papa she said : "*I dess I'll take a piece of ze im-terial, too."