BABY-WORSHIP. (THE POINT OF VIEW.)
"Your Nieces seem very fond of Babies, Mr. Sinnick. I suppose you are too?"
"Oh yes; like 'em awfully; especially when they begin to Cry."
"Ah, you think the dear little things are in pain?"
"Yes; and somebody rings the Bell, you know, and the Nurse comes, and the dear little things are taken away to the Nursery!"
THE HANDY BOY.
["In the office he held, which in reality was much too heavy for any single man to bear, it was necessary to live almost a monastic life, and the eight hours which some persons regarded as a maximum of toil seemed to those who occupied that position a dim and distant and golden vision."—Lord Rosebery, at the opening of the Battersea Town Hall.]
The Missis soliloquiseth:—
Ah! he's really the usefullest boy, that