FUNNY LITTLE ONES

New Zealand Tablet, 17 December 1908, Page 38

FUNNY LITTLE ONES

Little Bertram had always longed for a live net, but as he lived in an apartment building, he had to be satisfied with toy animals. Later his parents moved to the country, and Bertram became the happy possessor of a kitten. He hugged .t close and remarked, ' At last I am the parents of a living creature ! ' Marjorie, aged nine, had not been having very satisfactory reports from school. Her father finally said, ' Mar jorie, for the first hundred you get I'll give you a dollar.' Time went on and the reward could not be claimed. One day the child was taken violently ill. Her mother sent for the doctor. When he had gone Marjorie said, ' Mamma, am I very ill?' ' No, dear ; your temperature is a little over a hundred, but the doctor thinks you will be all right in a day or so.' Smiles broke through Marjories tears. ' Now, mamma, I can have my dollar. Papa said he would give it to me if I could get a hundred in anything.'