KIBBLINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8799, 7 June 1890, Page 4

KIBBLINGS.

A little nonsonw now »nd then. Ia relisbed by tb* iri»e*t men. Willie : "That's a very pretty doll of yonrsGracie. I wonder what's thereaßon tbey always make .dolls to look like little girls." Gracie : " 'Cauße girls are prettier than boys." '' I know it ; bat it geerna to me mighty strange they don't make a boy doll eometinieß. Now this one of yours can roll its eyea np and down, and sort of talk, yon know, Gracie, md " " And call oat 'Papa' when you eqneeze it." " Yes, that's seema bo Btrange; Girls don't do that, yoa know." Hearing a noise under their bed in the middle of the night — " There is something under tbe bed,'' said the man to his wife. " Most likely it is the do?," wbb the reply. " But it might be a robber," thought the husband. " Just put your hand under the bed," was bis wife's advice ; "if it is Carlo be will lick your hand." The man did as he was told, and the burglar, who had overheard the conversation, began at once to lick the proffered hand most assiduously. The couple went off to sleep, but next morninec they found little left that was worth carrying away. Mrs. Snively : "My husband neither smokes, drinks, nor swears. He is quitb a prize." Mrs. Lively : " Yes, indeed — a 6ir prize." The honeymoon is that part o£ a married life when tbe bride spends her time in trying to fiud out what her husband likes to ent, and he epende his time in trying to eat it ufter she has cooked it.