The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-10

The coolest child think that ever met wa
at a juvenile party. 1t vas very grand affair
and the little ones we're drinking champaign
and eating oyster patties and other messes wit
the greatest gusto.
Silent, stately walters were moving about
and seeing this little ones plate empty, ON
asked her what che would take.
"a little twife if you please" she said.
The waiter procured it, and asked il she woult
take anything with it, meaning tart, or some
thing Of that sort
A lobster salad resJed on the table in front o.
the child. and her eyes we're attracted by fhs
pretty pieces Of pink lobster mingling with the
green lettu . and geld and white egg.
"I'll take some of that" she said, indicating
the salad by wave of her little hand
The stately waiter looked surprised, and al
most laughed. -,
"Lobster salad with trife Miss" he said; ~
| never heard Of such thing
The child saw she had made mistake, and
bright blush flushed her face; but never would
she Owl it; but looked haughtily up into the
smiling waters face and said, as coolly as pcs
sible:
II always take them together"
And she ate the abOminable mixture, too,
without erimace. envied that child.
Another child 1 once met never would be
outdone. She would say the most ridiculous
things to prove that everything in her home
was larger or better than in the homes of Others
One day she was taking luncheon with her
aunt The lettuce had been brought to table
inst cut in four pieces and without dressing.
The child looked at it and smiled in superior
manner.
"My mamma always has the salad cut up
and dressed" she said.
Her aunt laughed, and seeing little stranger
in the person of a tiny slug coiIed comfortably
up amoug the crinkled leaves, called the child's
attention to it.
.'Perhaps you don't have nice little things
like that in your salad" she said.
That's nothing, we have immense slugs in
ours"
came across little hoy of profoundly re-
ligous turn of mind. Nothing pleased him as
much as being talked to about heaven and hell
and the angels of light and darkness.
Mother" he said one day, "when people die
do their souls 60 upi"
= Eyes, my DEAR" she answered.
"Andwh color are they"
His mother scarcely knew what to answer
IT difficult to explain to a child, SO she an
sw red injudiciously:
"The good have white souls, and the bad
black"
Quite black, mother-never spottedi"
mo, DEAR"
"Not if they are only pretty good ard pretty
bad-would they not be black and white then p
II think not, dear"
The boy was not satisfied, and q neighbor
mrs Baker, happening to fall dangerously ill
Just then, he was most anxious in his inquiries
as to how she was and to whether we should
call her good woman. One day friend came |
in, and Glanced to say that Mrs Baker was |
expected to breathe her last every moment"
The words were no sooner out or her. mouth |
than Freddy rushed into the garden and began |
Mr. Bakers house. In about quar-
ter Of an hour be returned and electrified US
with these words
Eve seen Mrs BAKERS soul go up, and It's
pebald."
Almost the sharpest person ever met was
tiny girl OF about five years old. She would
treasure up phrases and quotations she had
heard other people make use of, and bring them
)ut in the oldest way.
One evening, her mother failed to do some-
hing watch she had been asked to do, her
ather made use OF the quotation: '"ris folly
o remember, and It's wisdom to forget"
Quite an hour after the chid's nurse came to |
axe her to bed. She walked around The room,
aid Goodnight" to every one, then entered
nto an aniInated conversation with an elderly
nan.
The nurse still stood at the door waiting for
be child, SO her mamma called her:
"Baby, dear"
No notice.
Baby, dear"
"'Es, mamma"
Have you forgotten that nurse is waiting -
''Such wicked little face was turned round. |
uch knowing smile played round her lips,
nd lurked within her eyes,
"'Tis folly to wemember, and It's wisdom TO
ordet," she said, and then ran out of the room
angling at her own wit.
These four are the most droll little ones that
ever met; not now and then only were they
1nny, but almost continually, and think they .
ave certainly the right to be called ecu.e
ids."-tFrom Tinsey's Magazine.