Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-14


 there I had a hapenny, but there was nothing to pay, because there was nobody to come round
 "The essay which we next quote is re- markable at once for it's shrewdness and style. It was written by third standard lad upon sCleanliuess:' Then do not SO and say that you are feared of making yourself clean, just becose it is cold and it hurts to get the dirt of, or becose the studs get in your eye. For when you are clean people do not edge away from you, never mind about your clothes, but they say unto you, like our teacher, that it is next to godlyness. Be thankful unto him be- cose your mothers can afford soap, and be- cose they make you use it. Also when your mother puts her finger down your coat-neck afore breakfast, and peeps to see if there's any black there, and then sends you back to the sink again to wash your self better, say unto her, yes mother, also smiling. On Saturday nights say also unto her, mother don't forget to get my bathtub reddy for me and new peace of soap, for I love to wash myself on count of cleanliness, for it is next to godlyness. Do not be same as them there Blacks and Amerikens and 1ngoos, which just splash es their faces with water and no soap, and never gets inside of a tub, only paddlin about bits of rivers.
 "'When you say to a dirty boy, ''Dirty Dick wants the stick" only say it about once, so as he cant say as you are wickid. Say unto him, look at the thoteful cat, which spits on its pores just to get bit | of farther for fair start, and then wipes it's nose, and into its eyes, also behind its | ears, not counting over. Then say unto him as it will actshslly lick itself where it can't get it's pores, rather than be hitching | anywhere round. Tell him to look at the | necks of masters and superintendents and | preachers and he will never find ring, | which is always sine as you have not | gone far down.
 ''The following paragraph is extracted from an essay on Governments It is in l teresting as showing how future electors 1 regard the assembly to which they will l some day be entitled to return representa- | tives: Our country has queen who cant 1 do anything but what she ought to. She has been at the government for nearly if l ty years, and still she looks nice. Also Georges l., H., IT. and IV., but there was 1 VIII. Henrys. There is also houses called l the Houses of Parliment. One of these is full of Lords, called the House of Lords, but the other is only built for them gen tlemen as perhaps you have seen some of them, and it is called the House of Com | mons. No gentleman can get in there un- l less they know as he can make laws. But
 the queen has to look them over and see
 AS they are made right. These Commons
 are called Conservatives and Liberals, and
 they try and hinder one another as much
 as they can. They sometimes have sides,
 and then you see it on the plackards, and
 you can hear men and your fathers talk
 ing and quarriling about it. Our country
 is governed lot better than France, and | Germany comes about next. Then there's l lot of others, and then comes Persia.
 Our country always comes first, whoever
 you like to ask
 l ''The subjoined reference to Mir. Parnell
 was written before the recent revelations | in the divorce court. It is from boys | essay upon the Irish, and is not on the | whole complimentary to the nation
 There is one Irishman. as nearly every
 body nose on, which is NIT. Parnell. have seen his picture in a many difrent papers, and it is always the same He
 has a nice minister's face, and his eyes look straight out at you. I do like to see
 his face. Mir. Parnell does not dress same as the other Irish, and his eyes seem to | draw you to him. He doesn't look as fat
 as he would like Them Irish as is poor | and lives about here has a queer way of
 speaking, like as if they had a side tooth
 out, and the wind was blowing through it.
 They seem to have lot of wind inside of
 them. These pore mems faces have a
 many rinkles on them, and they look fun
 ny at you like what gipsies do. The
 Irish women have even got warmer hearts
 than the men, for they will actuilly some
 times pull their husbands cheeks in the
 street; and when there's no men about
 they begin dragging one anothers hair of
 But it is chiefly on scriptural subjects
 that Mir. Barker's boys excel. Take the
 following account of the excuses sent in | fn ha xvbn ba
 "And these men would not come, but they
 made all kines excuses, which wasn't worth
 discerning to.
 "'One of them said he couldn't come
 because he wanted to go that night and
 look at a peace of ground which he had
 bought. Then the kind Jew was roth
 when he heard it, for he knew very well
 that the man could easy have waited till
 morning, instidd of prowliu round his bit
 of new garden during the night time.
 "'Another of them said that he just
 prayed to be excused, because he had
 bought some oxen and he was going to
 prove them Then the kind Jew was roth
 again, for he was sure as the man only
 meant COWS, and that they would be quiet
 ly asleep in their stables, and no proving
 going on.
 "'Another of them said he couldn't
 come because he had married wife. This | CT than any of the others, for he felt cer. tain that the man had never told his wife : nuthin at all about it; and he knew that , the women allis asked their husbands tc
 have bit of treat, never mind about il
 being dark
 "The following is an extract from an es 3 say on Parents and it is worthy of tho ] attention of all whom it may concern 8 Parents seem to know things better thar | IL. as well. And they wont tell you what
 they mean, and they only larf when you 0 keep on asking them about things. I don't l believe they always know what they meaI I therselves. For when you see a sparrow : in the middle of the road with its back tc t | you, and you run to catch it, and it fife: g away, my father says, "You should put 8 some salt on its tail; then you'd catch il
 easy" Then feel more vext, and I say " to him same as I have said before. "Hov ! do you do it!" But he only stands ant a larfs at me- and tells me as I shall have tt l be fed on pigeons milk before can learI ! | that trick Then that makes me To q wilder, and feel as if was going to cry - It is very hard to honor parents, and tha f is why so many of us die at about harf O . ninety or one hundred, sometimes a dea Q less. Mother is very near as bad as father E because although she never talks to m D about salt and pigeon milk, she'll neye = tell me what it means when I ask her .- But she only starts larfng and turns away and says that father will tell me some day I will get to know. I have asked my un
 cle, but I don't think as he knows it an,
 more than me. All he does is to larf ant
 wink; and he tells me he must remind m
 father to buy me a milking pigeon.
 doesn't say as you have to honor your un
 cles.'"
 d HUNTING FOR LOST MAMMA.
 Little Tots Who Cannot Understau,