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Show Juvenile Wit. "It pays in the end," said the small boy when he stepped on a wasp.- [Steubenville Herald. "Are you lost, my little fellow?" asked a gentleman of a four year-old one day in Rochester. "No," he sobbed in reply;" b-but my mother is." A little boy tamed an alligator, and the ugly reptile began to like the little fellow - not, however, until the little fellow was all gone. -[Andrew's Queen. "What is the worst thing about riches?" asked a Sunday-school teacher. "Their scarcity," replied the boy, and he was immediately awarded a chromo. A boy of twelve years, dining at his uncle's, made such a good dinner that his aunt observed, "Johnny, you appear to eat well." "Yes," replied the urchin, "I've been practicing eating all my life." Natural Religion - Bishop (reproving delinquent page) "Wretched boy! Who is it that sees and hears all we do, and before whom even I am but a crushed worm!" Page: "The missus, my lord." -[Punch Dear Swift called at a home in Cavan, where the lady overdid his welcome, saying" "Will you have an apple pie, sir? Will you have a gooseberry pie, sir? Will you have a currant pie, sir? Will you have a cherry pie sir? Will you have a pigeon pie, sir?" At last wearied with her words, he said, "Any pie, madam, but a magpie." A belle of the Palais-Royal company was lamenting over the probability of sea-sickness in her transit across the Channel. "And have you no dream of home-sickness?" asked an admirer. "I have no home," was the reply. "Or heart sickness?" "I have very little of that either. |