Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1873 — Smart Sayings by Little Folks. [ARTICLE]

Smart Sayings by Little Folks.

The enfant terrible plays an important role in literature as in society during these modern days, and although a little of him goes a good way, yet it must be owned that his sayifigs are sometimes spicy. -. ’ . A grandfather was holding Master Tom, a youth of five, on his knees, when the youngster suddenly asked him why his hair was white. “Oh," says gandpapa,” that’s because I’m so old. Why didn’t you know that I was in the ark ?” “In the ark?” cries Tommy: “why you aren’t Noah, are you, grandpapa?” “Oh no, I’m not Noah.” “Ah, then you’re Sltem.” “No, not Shem, either.” “Oh, then I suppose you’re Japliet.” “No, von haven’t guessed right: I’m not Japhet.” “Well, then, grandpapa,” said the child, driven to the extremity of his biblical knowledge, “ you must be one of the beasts.,” Not less critical was the comment of a lad who was taken, to church one Sunday fok the first time. “You see, Augustus,” said his fond mamma, anxiouß to impress his tender mind at such a moment with lasting remembrances, “how many people come here to pray to God ?” “Yes, but nqt so many as go to the Circus,” says the practical lad. Suite natural, also, was the reply of a e lady who was found crying by her mother because one of her companions hadgiven her a slap. “Well,. I hope you paid her back?” cried the angry mother, her indignation getting the better of her judgment. “Oh yes, I paid her back btfore hand,'” lippinoott't Xogofinc,