The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-12-15

Never cries, sleeps % nights,
Never frets and never fights,
Oh, that baby!
Yes, that baby!
Love of a dove of baby!
Cooling soft all the day,
Always good, come what may,
Oh, that baby
The father of all cOrns-pop-cOrn.
What is the difference between
sperm and schoOlbOy's how'll One
is the wax produced by the whale,
and the other is the wall produced
by the whacks.
There was small boy in Pawtucket,
He bought him an orange to suck it.;
He had long nose,
And rs you may suppose,
Into the orange he stuck it.
A school boy had just got his face
fixed to sing ''Let us love one anoth-
err" when a SNOWFALL hit him in the
mouth and SO confused him that he
yelled; "Bill Sykes, just do that agin
and FL chaw your ear Off"
Two SOMEBODIEs.-Ik know some
body who always appears miserable;
and this is the way she cOntrives to
be so-thinking always about her
self; constantly wishing for that
which she has not; idling her time;
fretting and grumbIing.
/ know somebody who is much
happier; and this is the way she con-
trives to be sO-thinking of Others;
| satisfied with what her Heavenly
Father has judged best for her;
working. and thinking how she can
make Others happy.
My little somebody" what kind
of somebody" are you Eek.
A school-boy writes: "The mewl
is a larger bird than the guse or tur-
key. 1t has two legs to walk with:
and = more to kick with; and it
wears its wings on the side of its
head. 1t is stubbornly backward
about going forward.
A yOungster being required to
write composition upon some por-
ton of the human body selected that
which unites the head tn the body.
and expounded as follows: "A throat
is convenient to have, especially to
rOosters and ministers. The former
eats corn and crows with it; the lat
ter breaches through his'n, and then
ties it up. This is pretty much all |
can think of about necks.-
'Learn to talk like gentleman,
my boy! Papa Is sorry to hear you
talk street talk p Do quit it,"
what is street talk apaP"
"What did you just now say to
sister,"
IL told her to be quiet"
"But yOu said, Hush up and said
it very loud and rudely. And what
did you, ten minutes ago, say to
Martha n
81 told her to get out of my way.n
"Bnt yOn did not say it half SO
nicely as that. You said, Sect out of
this And, / think you called her
some name. What was it 7"
Harry looked ashamed, and the
tears came; but he answered 81
called her a dirty snick."
'Just SO. That is what mean by
street talk. All these naughty words,
and especially the rough tone and
manner, you hear on the street.
They belong tie those boys who have
never been taught any better, and to !
those men who, though knowing
better, yet do not care anything I
about the better way. But my little
boy must never use street talk
A spread-eagle orator wanted the
wings of a bird to fly to every village
and hamlet III the broad land, but he
wilted when naughty boy in the
crowd sang out: YOU'D be shot for
a goose before You had flied mile"
KEEP YOUR PRoMIsE.-A boy bor-
rOwed tool from carpenter, prom
Using to return it at night Before
evening he was sent away on an err
rand; and did not return until late.
Before he went, lie was told that his
brother should see the article re-
turned.
After he had come home and gone
to bed, he inquired, and found that
the tool had not been sent to the
owner. He was much distressed to
think his promise had not been kept,
but was persuaded to go to sleep, and
rise early the next morning. Il