Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-11

fur EN-, and has to have tucks in it. ;"
In Nevada city school the scholars
were requested to write composition
on the stink ant. One boy, after making
a herculean effort, got off the following:
"Sum things is small but awful stout.
A Skunk can outfite the biggest Nufoun-
lin Dorg. A ant can lift a big chunk
and bite like a mule. A stink ant can
lift his tale up in the are, and paw dirt
like ftin kock if you drum round him
much. Sum foxes like stink ants, but I
donte. This is all I kno bout ants
On the subject of religion, Sunday
school, and church-going, the observa-
| tions of the modern small boy are some
times very original and always startling.
Take prayer for instance. One fond
mother urges her son to ask God to
make him good boy. He raises his
eyes to his mothers face for few mo-
ments, as ii in deep thought, and then
startles her with the following reply:
Its no use, ma; He won't do it. L
have asked him heap of times" An
other boy, when urged to keep on pray
ing for the same reason, replied "But
don't want to keep teazing him all the
time" One morning little western
boy, while in bed, asked his mother if
God could stand in the air. The
mother replied that he could, and while
rejecting upon the maturity of the boy
and that the thoughts of God and
heaven were absorbing his mind, her
feelings can be better imagined than de-
scribed when he remarked that God could
do more than circus man.
During the Sunday-school lesson we
hear the small boy give some very pc
culiar views as to theology and the bible.
''Tommy Howell, can you tell me what
is meant by the word miracle SO often
used in the bible, which you now hold in
your hand?'' "Yes, Miss Harvey, I
think [ can. Ma says If you and Capt.
| Smith, who was with you at the Presby-
terrain picnic, don't marry pretty soon it
will be miracle" A 4-year-old Sun
| day-school girl did the best she could
with question that was asked the in
FAINT class. Said the teacher, reading
from Isaiah xxxvii., L: "'And it came
| to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it,
does that mean children rent his
clothes?'" Up went a little hand.
"Well, if you know, tell us" "Please
ma'am," said the child, timidly, CT
s'pose he hired 'em out. A little boy,
in giving an account to his brother of
the garden of Eden, said: "The Lord
made a gardener, and put him into the
garden to take care of it, and to see that
nobody hurt anything, or pasted bills on
the trees" An enterprising superin-
tendent of one of our city Sunday
schools was engaged in catechising the
scholars, varying the usual method by
beginning at the end..of the catechism.
After asking what were the requisites
for the holy communion and confrma-
ton, and receiving very satisfactory re-
plies, he asked: "And now, boys, what
must precede baptism ?" Whereupon o
lively urchin shouted out, GA baby,
sir ?'
When the fond mother or earnest
Sunday-school teacher attempts to en-
graft the lessons of morality on the
young hopeful, they are somewhat as
founded at some of the matter fact
replies made to simple questions. At
the conclusion of berry festival not
very long ago, an excellent teacher, de-
sirous of administering trifing moral
lesson, inquired of the boys if they had
enjoyed their repast. With the in
genuous modesty Of youth they all re-
sponded: eyes, sir-ee?" "Then, :"
asked the excellent teacher, " if you had
slipped into my garden and picked those
berries without my leave, would they
have tasted as good as now?" Every
boy in that stained and sticky company
shrieked, "No, street." "Why not %
"Cause," said little Thomas, with the
cheerfulness of conscious virtue, "then
we shouldn't have had sugar and cream
with 'em." A precocious boy was asked
which was the greater evil of the two,
hurting another's feelings or his finger ?
He said. the former. Fright. my dear
child" said the gratifed questioner,
Sc and why is it worse to hurt the feel
ings ?" because you can't tie rag
around them" explained the dear child
A minister stopping at a house sought. to
improve the time by giving an 8-year-old
boy an instructive lesson in morality.
My boy" said the minister, CT have
lived 45 years, and have never used to-
bacco IN any form, nor told lie, nor
dlsobeyed my parents, nor uttered an
oath, nor played truant, nor-'f Giminy
crickets p interrupted the lad, eyer
amt had any fun at all, have yer ?''
4" You are good little boy, said a Sun
day school teacher to sturdy lad; "you
never use naughty words ''No, I
don't, was the honest reply, "but when
my big brother takes all the gravy, and
leaves me the crusts, 1 think : good
deal, I tell you" A mother has her
child upon her knee-not face downward:
she is talking to him kindly, would
my little Ezra like to be a missionary,
andgo preach to the, suffering heathen?"
Tears--bright, pearly drops of feeling
glistened In little Ezra's eyes as he muir
INJURED: sNo, I wouldn't, but I'd like
to be on the perlice long enough to put
a tin roof on the big lummux that stuck
shoemaker's wax on my seat to-day at
school,"
When the clergyman makes his usual
call he inspires profound awe in most
boys. A Brooklyn dominic on going
away called to him little Tommy, the 4
year-old son of his host, and asked him
what he should give him for present,
Tommy, who had a great respect for the