LITTLE JOHNNY ON DIARIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XV, 15 April 1899, Page 505

LITTLE JOHNNY ON DIARIES.

A diary is a note-book in which people write down things they’re sorry for a few years afterward. The only persons I ever knew to keep diaries a whole year were the stationers, who had them in stock, and couldn’t sell them. Schoolgirls are great on keeping diaries. I got hold of my sister’s one day when she wasn't looking, and I don't know which was worse—the stuff shew rote, or the scolding shegave me for reading it. There wasn’t much in it, anyhow, except an account of the weather and the number of times she danced with George Ryder. George asked her one night to let him see her diary, but she wouldn't. So absurd! 1 can’t think why girls always will make such mysteries of everything.

I thought I would keep a diary* myself once, and 1 did for nearly a week. Here is the diary: Monday*.—Tried to throw a. stone over our big pear-tree and broke a window next door. The old man from next door came round and saw ma in the afternoon, but ma told him she was sure that her 'poor dear little Freddy* would never do such a thing!’ Green old ma!

Tuesday.—Hail a fight with Jimmy Jones, of our school. 1 gave him a smack in the face for not giving me a bit of his sweets. Then Jimmy ran like a. eoward! But he couldn't catch me.

Wednesday.—Two jam-tarts were found to be missing from the dinnertable. Pa said I must have taken 'em, but ma felt certain it was that thief of a cat. Dear old ma.!

Thursday.—l was trying to throw a stone over our pear-tree again, when the last three pears on the tree fell down—quite by* accident, of course. 1 don’t know what pa will say when he finds it out. 1 hope ma will think the cat did it.

Friday.— 1 left my diary lying about in the dining -room this morning, and pa picked it up and read it, and—and— Wait till pa goes out, and I’ll put that cane of his on the kitchen fire, 1 will! Saturday.—Catch me writing anymore!