The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-01
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A dreary place would be this earth
The song of life would lose its mirth,
Were there no children to begin 1t.
Nolittle forms like buds to grow, - "a a
And make the admiring heart surrender;
No little hands on breast and brow
To keep the thrilling love-chords tender.
The sterner soul would grow more stern,
Unfeeling nature more inhuman,
And man 10 stole GOODNESS turn,
And woman would be less than woman.
Life's song, indeed, would lose its charm,
Were there no babies to begin IL;
A doleful place this world would be,
Were there no little people in 1t
JOHN q. WHITTIER.
A little boy defines snoring as ''let-
ting off sleep"
A good little Ohio boy husked
enough corn last fall to buy his
mother a piano.
do they miss me at home-dO they
miss me ?' as the boy said when he
ran off and went to the show.
"Why," asked a governess of heriit-
tie charge, "do we pray to God to give
us our daily bread? Why don't we
ask for four days, or five days, scr q
week? Because We want it fresh,i
said the hopeful. 7--...-.. -sg
al say, boy, is there anything to
shoot around here ~ inquired sports
man of a boy he met. Well" re-
piled the boy, nothing just about
here; but our schOol-maSter is just
over the hills cutting birch rods; you
might walk up and pop him over"
Walter said big boy, going into
shop, "yOur master is out; now give
me a handful of raisins.n
MY Master is always in" said
Walter. The all-seeing God was
Walters Master. Always try to re-
member that you are in his sight it
will help to keep you from sin.
"She died." said Mary, Sand was
buried in the ground where the trees
grow" 1.-The cold ground ~ said
Kate, shuddering. "No, the warm
ground" returned Mary, "where the
ugly little seeds are turned into
beautiful flowers, and where good
people are turned into angels and fly
away to heaven"
Lady: why, boy, how can you
whip that cat 2"
Boy: "Why, with whip of course /"
boy, may L inquire where Robin.
sons drug store is ?" Certainly sir"
replied the boy, very respectfully.
"Well sir" said the gentleman, after
waiting while, "where is it ?" al
have not the slightest idea, yer
honor" said the urchin.
Sammy thinks that 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
study my own book all the time ]
shall only learn what there is in it,
but if hadn't any book to study,
should know all that the whole school
are reciting."
A teacher in Sioux City primary
school made a practice of writing 8
word on the blackboard as a subject
for each child to construct sentence
upon. One day she gave out "chim.
ney," and this is the way little boy
worked it in"
II do not wear chimney, for l am
not girl, for if / was a girl l would
have to wear chimney ---..--
Domestic lin terrified accelts)-"O
Mum, here's Master Plantag'n't, IN
has been and broke his Gran'pa's inE
bottle in the lib'ary, and cut his fin
ger dreadful, IN W !,
Grandmamma's darling (gleefully
abiding to his nasal organ)-"Ant
got marble up my doze, gra'd-bau
Punch.
THE Snow PRAYER,-A little CIR
went out one day in the fresh new
snow, and when she came In she said
Mamma, Icouldn't help praying
when L was out at play"
What did you pray. my dear 2"
81 prayed the snow prayer, mamma
that l learned once in Sabbath-schoo
Wash me and i shall be white
than snOw."
What a beautiful prayer! and here
is sweet promise to go with it
Though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be white as snow"
And what can wash them white
clean from every stain OF sin? Thu
Bible answers, "They have washed
their robes, and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb" ra 3.
''Will you give me them pennies
now?" said big newsboy to little
one, after giving him a severe thump
ing. mo, L won't" exclaimed the
little one. "Then I'll give you an
other pounding" Pound away m,
and DIR. Franklin agrees; DIR. Frank
lin says: Take care of the pence anC
the pounds will take care of them
selves.n
Little Johny's mother reached fol
him with her slipper the other evening
for hooking the jelly, and after dust
ing that portion of his pantaloons tina
he sits on, she was surprised to SCI
him laugh over it, and demanded tn,
cause of it. 81 was thinking how
fooled you; it was Carry who hooked
the jelly"
/ WILL NoT.-"I will not" said 8
little boy, stoutly, as l passed along
The tone of the voice struck me.
"What wont you do?" I stopped
and asked.
"That boy wants me to make be
lieve' something to my mother, and
won't" he answered in the same stou
tone. "That is one of the right places
TO say al won't" 1 hope he will
stick to it. Will our young readers
copy his example?
-On.