CHILDREN S SAYINGS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 40, 4 October 1890, Page 19

CHILDREN S SAYINGS.

< >NE day a lady went to spend ‘.lie afternoon with a friend. She had not been specially invited. After she had taken her hat off, the friend’s little daughter said : ‘ Ate you going to stay for tea?’ ‘ I think so, my dear,’ said the visitor. ‘ Don'tyou wish me to stay?' ‘Oh! yes,’ answered the child, ‘7 do, very much ; but I don’t know about mamma, ’cause when she saw you coming she hoped you wouldn't stay. I think she hasn't any cake.' < hir little boy, six years old, was sent to school last week for the first time, ami on his return home, asked his papa, * Who taught the first man his letters?' Two little boys were at the circus looking at the elephant. After the elder boy had given the animal several oranges and nuts, the little fellow cried out, ‘ Oh, pa, can't 1 give the other tail something, too?' A lady had two merry, nicely-behaved little boys. < hie afternoon she had some visitors to tea, and took great pains to have everything on the table very good. When they were all seated at the table one of the little boys said : ‘ I say, mamma, we don’t often have a tea like this, do we ?’ Everyone stopped talking for a moment, but the mother said pleasantly : ‘ Well, Johnny, we don't often have such nice people to tea, do we?' and everyone was pleased. After tea they went into the drawing-room where the lamps were lighted, and heie the little boy, without mean ing to vex his mother, said: ‘< >h 1 mamma, you've burrowed Aunt Sally's lamps, haven't you ?’ Again the mother laughed and said, ‘ It's no use trying to appear grand with my boys.' In a TRAMCAR.- Papa (to Gerty, aged three): ‘ Here comes a bow-wow : he'll have your dolly.' Gerty : ‘No he won't ; he hasn't dot any hands.’ A little boy of five went with his mother to make a call. The lady of the hou e, who was very fond of children, told him she intended to ask his mother to let her have him. ‘ Don't you think that your mother would let me buy you ?’ she said. ‘ No,'he said, ‘you haven't got money enough.' ‘How much would it take?’ she asked. ‘Three hundred pounds,' he answered promptly, ‘and you haven't got that much.’ ‘ I think I could manage it,' she said ; ‘if I can, will you come to me?’ ‘No,’ he said, with decision, ‘ mamma wouldn't sell me anyhow. There are five of us, and mamma wouldn't like to break the set.' ‘ We ought to have named that boy “ Flannel. - '' ‘ Why should we have named him “Flannel?’’ ‘Because he shrinks from washing.’

‘Boy, can I go through this gate?’ inquired a rather stout lady of an urchin who was swinging on a gate leading to a pretentious villa the other day. ‘1 think sac, mem,’ responded the urchin ; ‘ at least, a cairt o' coal gaed through this mornin'.’ Ekleily < Jentleman (toiling up a hill) mutters : ‘Yes, I'm getting an old man.' Young Hopeful (with mingled feelings of surprise and pride) : ‘ What, only get tin' an ole man now? Why, I've had mine ever since I can remember.’ A hoy was asked which was the greater evil, hurling another's feelings or Ins finger. ‘ The feelings,’ he said. ‘ Kight, my dear child,’ said the gratified questioner. ‘ But wny is it worse to hurt the feelings ?’ ‘ Because yon can't lie a ra* r around them,' answered the child. 'Feacher reading : Let down your sable shade. (> night. .And hide this sad earth from my sight ‘That's poetry. How would you express tin* same idea in prose? Well, Johnny I Johnny: ‘Pull down Ihe blind.’