CHILDREN’S SAYINGS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 28, 12 July 1890, Page 19

CHILDREN’S SAYINGS.

Little three-year-old Ethel at dinner one day commenced to scratch her ear. ‘ hat s the matter, Ethel ?’ Aunt Sarah asked ; * got a fly in your ear ?’ ‘ No,’ Ethel replied, ‘ but he stuck his foot in.’ Two little girls were looking out of tlie window during a thunder-shower, when one of them said : ‘ I would like to go out and get a good ducking.’ ‘Well, I guess you wouldn’t want to be lighted on,’said her little sister. When wee Katie caught her first glimpse of a comet, she ran to her mother in great delight, crying, ‘ O mamma, just •see that star with a cunning little tail to it!’ Mamma heard the children conversing in loud, excited tones, and stepped quietly to the door to see what it was about, ami heard Bertie say to Donnie, who was teasing her : ‘ I will import you to papa, if you don’t behave yourself.’ M hen Louis visited his uncle, who lives on a farm, last summer, he wrote a letter to his mamma, saying, ‘ I am having lots of fun. Yesterday I had a horseback ride on a cow !’ M hat Elsie said : ‘ Mother, do please buy me a new doll ; my old one is quite ashamed when asked its age.’ Johnnie : ‘ You’ve got a cold in your head, have you?’ Cholly (calling on Johnnie’s sister): ‘ Yes, a very bad cold.’ Johnnie: ‘Then sister was wrong.’ ('holly: ‘Wrong in what?’ Johnnie: ‘She said you hadn’t anything in your head at all.’ J Doctor to Gilbert (aged four): ‘Put your tongue out, dear.’ Sick little Gilbert feebly protruded the tip of his tongue. Doctor: ‘No, no; put it right out.’ The little fellow shook his head weakly and the tears gathered to his eyes : ‘ I can’t, doctor, it’s fastened on to me.’ Ida (aged six), on seeing the figure of Death with the hour glass: ‘ What’s that man got an egg-boiler for, mother? Girl of the period, for the first time, on seeing the vicar with the alms-dish : What is he going to do with tile pool ?’ Small child at tea with grandmamma, having eaten a large quantity of thin bread and butter, proceeds to f<dd a piece up and put it in her pocket. Granny: ‘My dear, haven’t you had enough without taking any away with you?’ Child (aged four): ‘Oh, yes, granny; but I am taking this piece as a pattern to show nurse how bread ami butter ought to be cut