Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-29
Il M0DERN PRIMER.
Little stories for the Amuse-
ment and Improvement Of
the Nursery Brigade.
FIela In bid Dsnrer rrIbune.

Eugene Field In the Denver Tribune,l
What a Delightful Mud Hole! It
is quito deep and Inviting. How Cool
and Pleasant il must be in the Mud
Hole. Good little Boys and Girls can
Play in the Mud Hole and make lots
OF Nice Patty Cakes. Tell the Baby
to como, too, and then You can Put
Mud in his Ears and he will Splash
the pretty Black Water all over Susie's
new Frook.
II.
Here We have a joke and a Man.
Tho joke is very old. 1t is Bald and
Toothlcss. II must DO about one
Thousand years old, The Man wears
a Big Diamond and a Shiny plug Hat.
lie is a Negro Minstrel. Go and give
the Old, Old Joke to him and he will
Take care Of it Tenderly. II Is his
Business. Ho gets Forty dollars a
week for 1t.
Ill.
This is a Diamond Pin. Tho Edi.
tor won it at a Church Fair. There
we're Ten Chances at Ten Cents a
Chance. The Editor M~ortgagod his
Paper and Took one Chance. The
Pin is Worth seven hundred Dollars.
Editors like Diamonds. Sometimes
they Wear them in their Shirts, but
Generally in their Mind.
Nv.
Who Put the Salt in the Sugar
Bowl? Mamma is Anxious to Find
out. Willie is Busy looking Out of
the Window. Can you Guess what he
is Thinking about2 Perhaps he is
Wondering what Mamma will Give
him before he Goes to Bed without
his Supper. If we were Willie we
would Feel safer with a Latin Gram.
mar in the Seat of our Pants.
".
The old Man is Blind and can not
See. He holds his Hat in his Hand,
and there isa Dime in the Hat. Go
up quietly and Take the Dime out of
the Hat. The Mar can not See you.
Next Sunday you can put the Dime in
the Sabbath School box and the
Teacher will Praise you. Your Papa
will put some Money in the Contribu-
ton box, too. He will put More than
You do. But his Opportunities for
Robbing are Better than yours.
VI.
Can you See the Ink Bottle on the
Table? 1t is Full of Nice Black Ink!
lfyou Want to, you can Pour the Ink
out. on the Carpet. 1t makes the Car
pet look Black, too, does it Not? Sit
down on the Carpet and Put both of
your Little Paddles in the Ink. See,
your Fingers are Covered with the
Ink What a Nice picture you can
Mako on the Wall Paper now. Make
a Picture of a Big Man and a Little
Girl. Doyou want to Put Some Ink
on the Lace Curtain? Very well. Put
it on carefully. for you Should never
Waste tho Ink or anything Else
This will be Quite a Surprise to Ma
ma when she Comes in.
VII.
Who is this Forocious looking
Man? He is the Foreman in a Print
ing office. lie gets Paid for Throwing
Men Down Stairs when they Come to
Lick the Editor, and for Putting
wrong Dates at the Head Of the Pa
per. He can Pi more type in fifteen
T Minutes than Seven Printers can SET
up in Two weeks. He loves to ask
the Editor for Copy. If it Were moi
for Him, the paper would Look pretty
well every Morning. Everything
would be fat and none of the Live
Ads would be Lett out.
VIII
The Dramatic Critic is Asleep
The play Does not Interest him. II,
will give it Thunder in the Paper
The Actors will be Sorry when the,
Read the Paper because it will Sa,
they are not Actors. After the Play
the Critic will 60 to the Variety Show
Z Will he Sleep there? No, be will
Not. The Lady in the Short ORES
and Pink Tights will Buy six Copie
of the Paper in the Morning becaus
the Critic will Say she is an Artist
1t is very Comfortable to be an Arts
when there are Critics in the Neigh
+. borbood.