"Maggie," she inquired serenely, "what did you do with the bacon we poisoned for the rats?"
TEARS
The kind lady stopped to tell the sobbing little girl not to cry, and she offered as a convincing argument:
"You know it makes little girls homely."
The child stared belligerently at the benevolent lady, and then remarked:
"You must have cried an awful lot when you was young."
TENDER MEMORIES
"Please tell me, James," directed the young lady teacher, "where shingles were first used?"
"I could, ma'am," little Jimmie replied in great embarrassment, "but I'd rather not."