The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-02-26
Children's Prattle.


the table until you are quite sure
that they won't undertake to do all
the talking. This you should make
a law when you have company.
Tell the company there isn't room
for them. You are never safe with
the children at the table. If there
is anything you don't want known
it will be told then. The boy who
never noticed that the spoons were
plated, will shout, as though giving
you valuable Information:
"Oh, see the gold coming through
the Spoons!
And that same boy will say he
wishes it was Sunday, and when
your guests ask him why, he will
reply:
because We always have pie
Sunday"
You will find out he knows a
great deal that you never suspected
he knew, and you will be at a loss
to ascertain how he ever equipped
himself with the facts. A boy at
the table is = well spring of dis
pleasure. If his sister is kissed by
any one he 10 always the person to
witness the performance, and tells
of it at the table before a crowd.
He is always the one to give to the
world the fact that his sister uses
powder, wears false teeth and is 80
years old. If there is a mortage on
the place, the boy hears you speak
of it and then goes around talking
about it as though it were some
thing to be pointed to with pride
and pleasure. Everything you say
in the bosom of your family that
should not be repeated the boy re-
peats, and he always has the tacul-
ty of repeating it at the wrong time
and to the wrong person.
IT you say the clergyman's ser
mons are too long or too dry, the
boy will take it all in, and say moth
ting until the clergyman comes
around to make his regular visit,
and then he will let it out just after
you have entered the room. If you
say the doctor is not fit to cure
hams, he will jump on the DOCTORS
knee, when he calls, and cunningly
says:
80, doctor, mamma says you amt
fit to cure hamsp'
The old adage that boys will be
boys, ought to be changed to boys
will be fends. One boy is more
bother than half dozen girls. The
boy is always in mischief. When
he is at school he is studying up
some kind of deviltry to perpetrate
when sch DOL il out, or else he is
playing tricks on the teacher.
When he is at home he is twisting
the eats tail, or disturbing her
hearthstone dreams with a bean
shooter. If there is no cat to tor
msnt, he will torment his little sis
ter by making faces at her or dress
ing the dog up in her dolls clothes.
Quite recently the Canadian pa
perE reported an anecdote of canine
fidelity which, had it been told of 8
soldier or a nurse, would have been
bruited throughout the civilized
world as an instance of humanity's
supremest devotion to duty. The
story as told to us is that when
nearing Montreal the engine-driYer
of train saw a great dog standing
on the track and barking furiously.
The driver blew his whistle, yet the
hound did not bulge, but crouching
low was struck by the locomotive
and killed. Some pieces of white
muslin on the engine attracted the
drivers notice; he stopped the
train and went back. Beside the
dead dog was q dead child, which, it
is supposed, had wandered on to
the track and had gone to sleep.
The poor, Watchful guardian had |
given Its signal for the train to
stop; but, UNDECIDED, had died at
his post victim to duty.-Cham-
ber's Journal.