LITTLE LESSSONS FOR LITTLE POLI-TICIANS.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 183, 6 September 1845, Page 108

LITTLE LESSSONS FOR LITTLE POLITICIANS.

[From Punch.'] In Words of One Syllable. There was once a very bad boy, and his name was Peel. He would go and slide on the scale, though be had been told it was a bad thing to do, but he would not mind what was said to him! Some big boys tried to trip him up, and I am sure that he will fall some day, if he will be a bad boy and still slide on the scale. He has been told that if he does not mind he will be sure to fall in, but he says he does not care, for he knows some Whig boys who will be glad to help to get him out. Peel is a rude boy. You ought not to do the same as he does. In Words of One Syllable. Mike Gibbs was a strange boy. He could not do a sum, or, at least, he would not, when he was bid. Mike said he was fond of his books, and he would not give up his books or let, them be seen. What an odd freak on the part of Mike Gibbs !

In Words of One and Two Syllables. Mas-ter Har-ry Brough-am was ve-ry fond j of throw-ing stones and let-ting off squibs, and j would not mind his Punch. He would of- ten < be ve-ry cru-el to o-ther boys, and he did run af-ter Mas-ter Camp-bell for the pur-pose of beat-ing him. He would ask Mas-ter Lyndhurst to help him to wor-ry poor Mas-ter Camp-bell. But Har-ry Brough-am was a clever boy, though he was al-ways in dis-grace for his tricks. He would try ve-ry hard to take the place of o-ther boys ; but he was so gid-dy he could not keep what he got. He had a quar-rel with Mas-ter Mel-bourne, in which he came off the worst, and he was made to stand up like a dunce on a form, though he said, ve-ry rude-ly, if it had been a bench he would have been quite con-tent, for to get put up on the bench was all he wanted. Was not Har,-ry Brough-am a ve-ry naugh-ty boy ? Lesson IV. Lit-tle James Gra-ham was a sly fel-low. He would pre-tend to mind his let-ters, but he would be all the while look-ing o-ver the let-ters that did not be-long to him. One day he was caught out, and was well whip-ped. This serv1 ed him right, and if he does the same thing a-gain, we will help to whip him as he deserves.