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Show PRATTLE OF THE CHILDREN. A little girl was taking a ride with a friend. She had never before seen a horse without blinders on the harness, and asked her friend if the horse had lost his spectacles." I- axnif 8 eves were not strong, and the oculist that examined them advised the use of a prism. One day a lady asked i annie how her eyes were. 'Oh." sam tannic "tney are a great deal Det-ter; Det-ter; but I have to look through a prison every day." Old Uncle Norman had lived with the family for many years, helping about the house and yard at whatever there was to be done, He was a very talkative old man, fond of using high-sounding high-sounding words, and felt his importance impor-tance very much. He informed one of the young ladies of the house one day that he would have to take a rest, that he could not stand such "laborious labor" la-bor" because he had the "rheumatic rheumatism." Youth's Companion. |