Tommy. "No; I only want to learn how to keep it from getting broken."


DREAMS.

Mabel. "Don't dreams always go by contraries?"

Mamma. "I have heard so."

Mabel. "Well, last night I dreamed that I asked you for a piece of cake, and you wouldn't give it to me."


THE VENDER'S HORSE.

When little Rupert saw a vender's horse whose ribs were plainly visible the other day, he said to his nurse:

"Oh, Ellen, just look at the horse with corduroy skin!"