The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-02-29
OUR LITTLE FOLKS

See here, mister" said Il lad
driven up tree by dog; "if you
don't take that dog away, I'll eat up
all your apples"
An industrious and virtuous edu-
ucation Of children is better inher-
itance for them than a large estate
A lazy boy makes a lazy man,
Just as a crooked sapling makes a
crooked tree.
"Boy," said an ill-tempered old
fellow to noisy lad, "what are you
hollerin' for when 1 am going by?"
"Humph," returned the boy, "what
are you going by for when I am hol-
lerin'?'
A small boy being called up as a
witness in New York court, and
asked by Mr.. G. S. Spencer what
they do to persons who swear to a
lie, replied, "They make policemen
of them"
Alittle girl having noticed that
after her mothers toilet there was
invariablya sprinkling Of powder on
the carpet, observed on seeing the
snow the other morning, "See,
mamma! the angels have been using
the poudre de riz."
A little Danbury girl, when asked
by her mother about suspicious lit
tie bites in the sides of a dozen
choice apples, answered, perhaps,
mamma, they may have been frost
bitten, it was so cold last night.
The mother retreated.
A candy boy, passing through a
car met cross old gentleman, and
says: "Pop corn, pop corn!"
"Hain't got any teeth" angrily
replied the man.
Gum drops! gum drops!' calls
the smart lad.
The enterprising individual who
is organizing a blass band OF twenty
women says if they learn half as
many "airs" as they put on the ex-
pertinent cannot fail of beinga sue
cess.
Another was amused the other
dav to hear this bit of argument
from her little boy: "Mamma, |
don't see how Satan could have turn
ed out to be such bad fellow
there wasn't any devil to put him up
toit.
A schoolmistress was trying to
teach class of four Or five year
olds the names of the days of the
week. After practicing them a
while, she asked q five-year-old girl
"What day iSthis?" washing day, "
was the quick reply.
Sammy thinks he would learn
much more at school if he did not
have to attend to his own book all
the time. Because, he says, "if l
study my own book all the time L
ehall only learn what there is in it,
but if | hadn't any book to study,
| Ishould know all that the whole
school are reciting.
What would you do if mamma
should die?" asked n lady with whom
we have the honor of an intimate
acquaintance, of q little three-year
old girl, that we would not take a
hundred dollars for, "Well, mamma,
I I'spose I should have to spank
myself"
A lad arrested for theft, when
taken before the magistrate and
asked what his occupation was,
frankly answered, Stealing.
Your candor astoni,hes me- said
the Judge. 81 thought it would,
replied the lad, "Seeiug how many
big 'uns there are in the business and
is ashamed to own it!'
Little Annie was very ANXIOUS 10
possess a string of gold beads which
belonged to her grandmother, who
did not consider it expedient to give
them to her. One day the child
went and stood at the cid ladys
knee, and after looking alternately
at her and the beads, said, with
great solemnity, Grandma, l
think if you were to die, Ishould be
perfectly satisfied.
"Gerty, my DEAR" said teacher
to one of her pupils, "you have been
a good little girl to-day" Yesm
I.couldn't help being good. l had
astilf neck" said Gerty, with per-
ct seriousness.
"Salt" is the subject OF the school
boys latest composition: "Salt IS
spice which spoils the potatoes
You forget to put it on
hNew York contemporary says
that at the annual examination re-
Gently of q certain school not more
than fifteen miles from Boston, the
master asked one of the scholars
what the Pilgrims came over to
America in?" and had his equsnimi'
ty somcwha. disturbed by the reply
"two steamers!" Turning to an.
other scholar he endeavored to SET
matter, right by asking, "When the
Pilgrims landed?" and was again
doore by the answer, $780,"