LITTLE CARL.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue IV, 25 January 1896, Page 111

LITTLE CARL.

Everybody likes little Carl Rosenbloom, he is so sharp, and small and fat. He has lived in New Zealand just a little while, and he can only speak two English words. But it sounds so funny to hear him say * Thank you !’ to whatever is said to him that no one cau help smiling ; and I think this is the reason that he gets cookies and slices of gingerbread at every house where he is sent on an errand.

One day Carl was trudging along with a basket of clean clothes, which his mother had just washed and sent home. He was a droll little figure, with his chubby legs in short knickerbockers, and his round, fat arms in sleeves much too small and tight for him. Some boys playing marbles on the pavement were quite amused at this comical sight, and they began to laugh, and shout * Sausage-bags !’ Now Carl did not understand a word, but he saw they were speaking to him, so he turned his dear little innocent face to them with the sweetest of smiles, and said, • Tank you I’

You should have seen how ashamed the naughty boys looked then ! One of them smiled and nodded at little Carl, another gave him a nice red apple, while another took his big basket, and carried it for him all the rest of the way. So the good natured little fellow trotted off, thinking what kind boys they were, and what a pleasant world this is to live in. And perhaps we should think so, too, if our tempers were as sweet as his.

When Ella and Gussie, two small maidens of three and five years, went with papa and mamma to see the big reservoirs, Gussie looked a long time, and then said, * Why. papa, what makes them have two big places for the water?’ But before papa conld answer, little Ella said, • Well, Gussie, I fonght you knew dat! Why, one is hot and one is cold water.’

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