Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-02-19
TOODLEE'S TALK:

Trash Sayings of Witty New England
Children.
Grace NJ. is 8 years old. When s years
old she was in the country visiting bel
grandparents. There she had as a play
mate George, the son of q Methodist
clergyman, Of like tender years. While al
play they were frequently annoyed by
little urchin whose society was neither
~congenial nor desirable. On n occasion
Oracle became sorely Disguised with the
little intruder, and, throwing up her
hands, exclaimed:
"Well, there, l do wish Pat Fallon was
in the bad place"
'Oh, no." demonstrated the precoclous
son of the parsoD, "you wish the Lord
would take him"
LIVING IN HOPES.
Carrie H. NJ, 3 years old, said n day;
when grandpa gets his pension, he will
bus me a little sister"
/ asked her what Santa Claus was going
10 send mamma. She said: Il hope ne
will send you q pair Of slippers; them old
ones make me sick"
"REMINISCENCES OF PAST EsCAPADEs.
A little red haired beauty whose home
is Cleveland, o., accustomed to having
her own way largely, and with an o'el-
weening desire at all times to get ahead"
of somebody, cried one day because her
mother would not take her along in a trip
down town in the rain. To quiet her
mamma said:
Suppose, Bessie, l took you ont 10 this
rain and you caught cold aud died, you
would feel nice looking down from heaven
and seeing some other little girl sitting in
Charles lap, kissing Diddie and sleeping
with mamma"
'I'd drop down." she promptly replied.
"But God would not let You, wered
her mother.
She stopped, studied a bit, and with
twinkle in her eye made answer:
I'D wait till bod went into the bath
room and then I'd sneak Off"
MORE sACRILEGIoUs THAN INGERsoLL
Little Willie is six years old. The Other
evening the children, six in number, were
making a lot Of unnecessary noise, and J,
being very tired, begged them to stop OF
they would drive Te crazy. called them
to get ready Cor bed. Willie put lis arms
around my neck, saying:
"Mamuia, do you think that you will
die before l get to be o man" l told him
/ shouldn't wonder. Then he said: Ell
you should die tonight, do you think that
God would take you up to Heaven and
have a pair CT wings made for you with
that old dress oD?"
THREE AND FOUR YEARS OLD.
Alittle girl of three years had seen heI
grandfather kneeliug before a chair and
asking Gods help. One day her mother
Jaw h,r looking at the chair very intently,
turning it upside down. Her mother said:
'What are you looking at, Mamie!'
/ am trying to find God, mamma, was
the reply.
Her little brother, when about four years
ole, had been told that he was made from
dust. His mother SAW him watching very
soberly the first snow. what are you
looking at, Arthur" she said.
lie answered. "Why does not God make
us out of the c',an whitc SMoWF"
TELL Us MORE ABOUT II FRANKS.
My little bog, a: four years o! sge, saw a
snake Try to swallow q toad. He said
That's what you'd call shaking 'em Off,
wouldn't you, papa?"
At another time he asked me what kind
of cake / was making. When l told him
pound cake he asked: "Are You going to
pound it with the hammer"
A friend tod me recently of q little girl
who was watching al approaching thun,
der shower. When there came q binding
flash she exclaimed, with great awe, "Shine
again, H.avenly Father"
l think il wOnld be full as amusing to
read Of sOme Of the queer pranks children
play on US as to hesr Of their sayings. ]
have come down stairs in the morning and
found a garment cut up in inch.pieces that
| SGT up late the night before to finish.
That didu't amusc me much, though.
A LITTLE ENGLISH GIRLS PHRASE.
When we were about leaving Eogiand
to Join my husband in America, my little
girl, thGn 5 years old. one day found cry
in. bitterly. VITA" 1 said, whatever
are you crying like that fM?'
Il don't want to go to America" she
sobbed, 81 don't want to 90 to my papa; ]
want to stay here with ray grandset."
Your gran1aet? Whatever do you
mean" / asked.
She looked at me SO Indignantly as she
answered:
"Why, nv grandma, and my grandpa,
and Aunt Florry, and Uncle Ernest
aren't they my grandset?"
Ut OFT FoR A LAWYER.
"Stevie," a bright four-year-old, hat
been told that he must not ask for any
thing to eat When visiting the neighbois
Soon after, at the house Of a distant rela
tive, where he invariably found some
thing to eat, he hung around, with {
wishful sort of look, until finally he broke
ou.:
Aunt Jane. I'm artWl thirsty"
"Are yon?"
"Ycs, Ian so thirsty l could cat a dough
rrt."