ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS.
“Mother,” asked a little girl, while listening to the reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “why don’t the book never mention Topsy’s last name? I have tried to hear it whenever it speaks of her, but it has not once said it.”
“Why, she had no other name, my child.”
“Yes she had, mother, and I know it.”
“Well, what was it?”
“Why Turvy—Topsy Turvy.”
“You had better go to bed, my dear,” said the mother. “You are as bad as your old grandmother, for she can’t say pork without beans, for the life of her.”