Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-07-16
n camp-meetlng last summer. a veT
able sister began the hymn
ny soul he Of thy guard
Ten thousands Zoe. arise"
BOYS AND GIRLS.

\ Porter street boy came across some
thing the other day which he thought would
give his father shock of surprise, and he
stood before the old man and remarked
'-Giye me a place to rest nv lever, and | will
move the whole world" The father looked
at him half minute, and then replied
I'm move you ify You don't clean of that
back yard this afternoon -
When a Ninth avenue boy pitches into
Lacrosse street boy and gets a bloody nose,
be goes home fully prepared for what he
knows viii follow. Fighting again - in
qurcs the Detroit father. We'll, I'll see you
IN the woodshed after dinner" Father,
REPLIES the boy, tears in his eyes, at was
that johnson boy. lie came along and call
cd me the son Of a cross-eyed sheep-thief,
and, father, | couldn't stand by and hear
YOU spoken OF in that manner - The father
feels in his vest pocket for nickel, and
nothing further Is said about the woodshed
business.
Frisco boot-black "Shin-cr boots, sir? ?"
James Lick. testify Didn't tell you five
minutes ago that | didn't want my boots
backened ," "Yer did, mister, but didn't
know but what yer j make revocation -
Exit boot-black.
johnny saws. | spose babies is different
from folks eos they don't know 10 better,
bat If | was them you wudent cetch me put
tin everything in this world into my mouth,
can tell you, like ours does. Mary, that's
the house maid. she was a only chile
when She was TO home, and she used 10 have
dols, but she never see a meat baby real
cloce til she come to our house, and that girl
was les a stonsh oil the time TO see wot baby
wude do. and it was morn a munth fore she
wude tuch it. One day Mary she come
Dustin in the dinin room wen 1t was dinner,
wife like sheet, and hardly any breth, and
she said q, if you pleas, mum, baby has
went and ct the nursey dore every bit up. oil
but Jest the mob. but wen my mother she
went to see wot was the matter it was only
father had tuke Of the dore to mend 1t, and
baby was a suckn Il round paper waite.
Sech a girl When she Grs come to live
with Us one day Uncle Ned he was plain
with baby after lunchen, and he had the
cork Of a ale bottle stickin on the cork scru,
and he was lettin baby take it in his
mcwth. Mary she come in vile he was
doin it, and she see him pul 1t out quick,
and she ran in the kitchen as ias as ever she
cude and brot Uncle Ned a tumbier on
tray Tween me and you don't bleeve
that girls got any thinker
Two small boys were before Justice King
of Preston yesterday, charged with the helm
Gus offence of calling William Armstrong a
''sunhower" They were found guilty and
fined one cent each-N0ririch Bulletin.
Twenty years ago, says the Brooklyn
.Argiis.a a poor boy, after attentiyely peru
sing the life of Lord Nelson, secretly left his
parents roof with a pocket-knife, a sand
wich and bunch Of twine as his sole capi-
tai resolving to 90 to sea and be an admiral
Five miles away from home this brave am
bilious lad was kicked into duck-pond by
an exaSperated mule, and he is now one of
the wealthiest and most devoted agricul-
turalists in the State of New York.
A Anew~boy seated on the post Office steps
counted his pennies over and remarked :;
Seventeen cents in all. That's five for the
circus, three for peanuts, four for sinking
fund, four owe TO Jack, and there's one
left to support widowed mother on until
Saturday night