A teacher had been telling her class of boys recently that worms had become so numerous that they destroyed the crops, and it was necessary to import the sparrow to exterminate them. The sparrows multiplied very fast and were gradually driving away our native birds.
Johnny was apparently very inattentive, and the teacher, thinking to catch him napping, said—
Johnny, which is worse, to have worms or sparrows?
Johnny hesitated a moment and then replied: Please, I never had the sparrows.
George, George, mind; your hat will be blown off if you lean so far out of the window! exclaimed a fond father to his little son, who was traveling with him in a railway carriage. Quickly snatching the hat from the head of the refractory youngster, papa hid it behind his back.
There, now, the hat has gone! he cried, pretending to be angry. And George immediately set up a howl. After a time the father remarked—
Come, be quiet; if I whistle your hat will come back again.
Then he whistled and replaced the hat on the boy’s head. There, it’s back again, you see. Afterward, while papa was talking to mamma, a small, shrill voice was heard saying—