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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 48, 28 March 1884, Page 5

. . * h °y that evidently has in him the promise of a character lives in, feouth Manchester. He is but four years old, but he has views of his own Last summer, dressed in the feminine frock that is used for all children of tender age, ho wandered to his uncle's, and spied in the garden some violets that he suddenly wanted. But he approached the subject iv a tentative, politic way. He asked h,s uncle "if he toiew" the flowers were out there ? " Yes," the uncle said, "I planted them there : would you like to have some of them ?" I don t care if I do, was the infant's slow and unlooked-for answer, 'Dont care if you do I Well, I never give flowers to boys that «don t care 'for them." The enfant terrible was not to be balked or baffled— or driven from his ground. He astonished his uncle with » lawver-hke discrimination in vindicating his attitude, by delibeiatelv making this answer : « I don't care if I d j_buc tdo care if I don't !" He got the violets.— Hartf&rd Times.