A little boy and his sister were allowed, this summer, to collect the eggs from the hen-coops, but they were told they must never take away the nest-egg. The little girl, however, did so one morning by mistake, and her brother told her she must take it right back, "because that was what the old hen measured by."
When Freddy got back from the mountains last week he was much pleased at the sight of clean stiff curtains hanging in all the rooms.
"Oh, mamma," he remarked, "the windows have all got clean shirts on!"
"That's the pretty white cow that gives us the nice white milk," said the country boy to his little city friend.
"And is that the brown cow that gives us the coffee?" asked the latter.
A newsboy saw a dime lying on the ground in the City Hall Park. A tramp sitting on a bench near by saw the boy pick up the piece, and claimed it at once as his own.