SAYINGS OF THE CHILDREN.

Otago Witness, Volume 02, Issue 2420, 2 August 1900, Page 60

SAYINGS OF THE CHILDREN.

Lewis Carroll, author of " Alice in Wonderland," told with keen relish of a rebuff given him by ?j little girl who knew him only as a learned mathematician. "Have you ever read 'Through the LookingG]ass ' ?" he asked her, expecting an outburst of delight. " Oh, dear, yes !" she replied. "It is even more stupid than 'Alice in Wonderland.' Don't you think so?"

The mother of a bright little three-year-old had been away from home overnight", and on her return asked: "And how did my. little girl get to sleep last night without mamma?" "Oh," she replied, "papa, twied to sing to me like 'ou does, an' I dis went to sleep weal twick, so I touldn't hear, him." The sensation of homesickness has been, variously described, but never more graphically than by a little girl who, miles away from her home and mamma, sat heavy-eyed and silent in a railway-carriage. "Aren't you hungry, dear?" asked her avuifc, "with whom she was travelling. "No, axmtie.' 5 "Does sslvx. jeoor hssui achel" -"Kite

auntie." "Tell me -what is the matter?" The lip quivered pitifully, and she said, in a tone to grieve the heart, " I'm so seasick for my home and my mamma." A little girl was permitted one bright Sunday to go with her mamma to hear papa preach. Now, it chanced that on this special occasion papa's sermon was of the "warning" order. After a moment of breathless surprise and horror, the little listener's soul was wrought upon with a great pity for the poor mortals upon, whom so much wrath was descending. She rose excitedly to her feet, and, her wide reproachful eyes just peeping over the back of the seat, called out, in sweet, chiding tones : " What for you scolding all the people so, papa?"