LITTLE PEOPLE SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 44, 1 November 1890, Page 19

LITTLE PEOPLE SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

A LITTLE child was looking at a picture of Daniel in the den of lions. After regarding it earnestly for some moments, she startled her mother by the question, ‘ Oh, mamma, do you think that little lion in the corner will get a bite ?’ ‘ Come, Nellie, don’t be a baby. Crying won’t mend your doll.’ ‘ Well, mamma, will laughing?’ Mother (to young son who had been dining with the neighbours): ‘Had a good dinner, Jimmy ? Jim: ‘Tiptop.’ Mother: ‘I hope you didn’t ask twice for soup?’ Jim : ‘ No, ma’am ; I asked three times.’ A little girl had just been reading the story of Jonah and the whale from the Bible, and on its completion she remarked, ‘Oh, do read that to George (her brother). He likes that kind of story so much, and I daresay he’ll believe ‘ Oh, mamma !’ shuddered a little girl, as she was being bathed one morning, and shrank from the water on her chest. ‘Don’t put water there. It hurts my front back so !’