—“Pa,” said little Jimmie, “I was very near going to the head of my class to-day.”
“How is that, my son?”
“Why, a big word came all the way down to me, and if I could only have spelled it, I should have gone clear up.”
—Mamma (coaxingly): “Come, Bobby, take your medicine now, and then jump into bed!”
Bobby: “I do not want to take my medicine, mamma.”
Father (who knows how to govern children) “Robert, if you don’t take your medicine at once, you will be put to bed without taking it at all.”
—A little girl in Charles Street, Boston, has an old-fashioned doll which has the following words worked in red silk letters on its sawdust-stuffed body:
“Steal not this doll for fear of shame,
For here you see the owner’s name.
“Priscilla Alden.”
—A little grammar found in an old garret in Portsmouth, N.H., has an illustration representing the difference between the active, passive and neuter verbs. It is a picture of a father whipping his boy. The father is active, the boy is passive, and the mother, sitting by herself on a stool, looking on, but doing nothing, is neuter.