The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
LITTLE FOLKS SAYINGS.

They were at the wedding breakfast. The
groom to the little girl-''You have a new
brother now you know" "Yeth,n respon.
ded the little one, ma seth it wath Lotties
lasth chance, so she'd better take it." The
rest of the little ones talk was drowned in a
clatter of knives and forks.
"A cute little girl ofHthree is the delight OF
family for her prettinesS as well as for the
bright and odd things she says. The other
day company of militia passed down the
street in front of her home and her minute
black-and-tan barked furiously through the
window pane at them. The little girl rose
in alarm and said: "Shut the door, mammal
Fido will bite the army"
remember the little fellow, and asked him
what he would like to have. He replied:
"a soldier uniform complete, with sword,
belt, knapsack, cartridge box with real cat
ridges, gun and little cannon on wheels"
'All right you shall have everything, Phil"
replied Mr.. Leslie, "but tell me, what are
you going to be when you grow up?" Phil
reflected for an instant and said: "When
grow up am going to be man, and don't
believe l could do anything better"
A Minneapolis little girl has received
Great deal of religious instruction from dot
ing grandparents who are prominent in the
Methodist church. A few evenings ago
Grandfather was assisting in setting the
table in the absence of the usual ''help."
Little Miss Jones watched the operation at
tentively. Grandpa" she suddenly ex-
claimed, docs God make you put on the
cupsT YES" was The reply. "Well, why
doesn't he make you put them on straight"
was the critical retort.
It's rather alarming. There seems to be
no limit to the precocity of the children in
this generation. This Child was not five
years old. She was away with her mother
and she indited an epistle Tin her mothers
handwriting) to her papa. She had doll
which, with budding poetry, was named
Helen Marguerite, and she wrote: Helen
Marguerite's eyes fell down her stomach and
her head fell of, and Pm so sorry. / want
you, papa, to go and get me pair OF twins
from Dr.. / want some babies to play
with,-San Francisco Chronicle.
At little girls party in this city a few
days ago, when the dolls had grown a trihe
tired, two OF the young people decided to
entertain the rest with charades. As none
but the children themselves were present,
the reports of the entertainment are neces-
sarily second hand, but from all accounts it
appears that there was one pre-eminent sue
cess. "Of course, it's easy enough to guess,
but it was real fun. First they talked about
a cat; that was the first syllable. Then, for
the second syllable, they had a sledge, and
the word, OF course, was mewsledge. Hart
ford Current.
l went to school myself once, and one day,
when visitors were present, the teacher
thought that he would show of the spelling
and defining class. Things went on well
until the word singular" was given out
There seemed to be a diversity of opinion as
TO the meaning of the word, one saying it
meant one thing and another another, until
the teacher, by way of throwing light upon
the matter, asked: Now, If should say
man was singular man, what should L
meanT' whereupon a bright little boy
shouted: "a man that didn't have any
wifel"-Boston Record.