HIS MEMORY.

Johnny. "I can't remember the name of that little girl I met at Newport."

Papa. "You must improve your memory. That little girl had a very common name. Now guess—what happens before meat?"

Johnny. "The sharpening of the knife."


OLLIE'S OPINION.

If the two "z's" in buzzard
Are because it buzzes, then
I think that in "mosquito"
There should be eight or ten.


Mamma. "Bobby, which rule in school do you find the hardest?"