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Show THE SAYINGS OF CHILDREN. Queer and Amusing Ideas Formed by the Youngsters. The queer conceptions of things that come to children cause them to advance such strikingly original ideas that their elders are more than astonished. aston-ished. A little boy who lives down in the country not far from Chicago was driving out through the farm lands with his parents. On the way they passed a place where a house was being erected. The builders had completed the floor of the porch, but had not as yet put up the pillars. Tne little fellow looke.d at the house for a minute and then exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, there's a porch without with-out any handles." Another little chap, three years old, stepped out into the yard with hi mother on a cold evening not long ago. Suddenly he grew silent and then burst out with: "Why, mamma, I'se a-foggin'." He had been watching his breath freeze in the cold air. Still, another youngster, this time a little girl, is exceedingly fond of pumpkin pie. All year she has watched watch-ed diligently for the pumpkins and finally when they arrived tnis fall her delight knew no bounds. Rushing up to her mother, she begged: "Mamma, please kill a purakin and make a ie." |