AN INDESTRUCTIBLE PRESENT.
Joe is a boy who, through the beneficence of his grandparents, is singularly blessed with uncles and aunts, and Christmas and birthdays he realizes it most. They give him so many toys that his father and mother, on such occasions, usually make their presents consist in carrying out some cherished plan of Joe's.
"Actually," his father remarked, on his most recent birthday, "Joe has more presents now than he can break in a year."
"Oh no, papa!" said Joe, with an injured air, "there's one present I won't break."
"Well, Joe," replied his father, "I'm glad there's one. Which is it—the cast-iron train of cars Uncle Bill gave you?"
"Oh no!" cried Joe; "I can break that easily enough. I mean I won't break your promise to send me to dancing-school."
"THE FUNNIEST THING HE EVER SAW."