She waited uneasily for a little while, then she knocked. No response. She knocked again. Still no attention. Her curiosity could be controlled no longer. "Dodo!" she called in staccato tones as she knocked once again. "'Tain't me! It's Mamma!"
MOLLYCODDLES
"Tommy, why don't you play with Frank any more?" asked Tommy's mother, who noticed that he was cultivating the acquaintance of a new boy on the block. "I thought you were such good chums."
"We was," replied Tommy superciliously, "but he's a mollycoddle. He paid t' git into the ball-grounds."
MONEY
In some of the college settlements there are penny savings banks for children.
One Saturday a small boy arrived with an important air and withdrew 2 cents from his account. Monday morning he promptly returned the money.
"So you didn't spend your 2 cents?" observed the worker in charge.