EXPLAINED.

"Why, Howard, child, how did you cut your lip that way?" cried Mrs. B.

"Playing," said Howard. "I was playing I was a goat, an' I tried to eat a tomatter can."


BOBBIE'S COMPLIMENT.

My sister screws her face up
At all times when she cries;
But she can't make it ugly
However hard she tries.


Bobby. "If you fell overboard while on an ocean steamer, what would you do?"

Jack (four years old). "I'd go to sleep on one of the ocean's pillows."