From Children’s Chat, by “Grandma” in the “Times” of Natal:
“I want you, my dears, to write me a short snake story, something that really happened to some one you know; and if you can tell me of a child being really bitten I shall be glad to hear about it.”
Truly it is said that a child’s best friend is his grandma.
Wandering over Salisbury Plain on Whit Monday, a correspondent came across a large stone inscribed: “Turn me over.” After much difficulty he succeeded in turning it over, and found on the under side of the stone the words: “Now turn me back again, so that I can catch some other idiot.”
He—“Dearest, if I had known this tunnel was so long, I’d have given you a jolly hug.”
She—“Didn’t you? Why—why—”