THE MAIN DIFFERENCE.

"Jack the Giant-killer was a very different sort of a person from Jack of the Bean-stalk," said Wilbur. "One raised beans, but the other raised thunder."


CAUGHT IN THE ACT.

"I'm goin' to tell my pa on you," said Johnny Smithers, as the blacksmith pared some of the bone away from the horse's hoof.

"Why? What have I done?" asked the blacksmith.

"You 'ain't got shoes to fit Dobbin, an' you're whittlin' off his feet to suit those you have got."


I love to read of Indian fights—
Fights big and rough and bloody,
When they are told in story-books—
Not in the books I study.