My aunt showed me how to do it the
other day, when sister Nelly had a birthday party. We took little
brother Tommy out into the library and stood him upon a high wooden
stool, and dressed him up very finely in mamma's clothes. The stool made
him so full that the dress was of just the right length. Then Uncle Ned,
telling him to stand straight and firm, carried him, stool and all, into
the parlor. I wish you could have heard the girls and boys laugh! He had
such a comical look--with his tall body and little round face--just like
some of those French Parian figures. One little girl handed him a fan,
and then it was too funny to see the tall lady fan herself affectedly
with her very small, dimpled hands. All the boys and girls just
shouted.--_Young People._
BRIGHT SAYINGS.
A writer in the School-Boy Magazine has gathered together the following
dictionary words as defined by certain small people:
Bed time--Shut-eye time.
Dust--Mud with the juice squeezed out.
Fan--A thing to brush warm off with.
Fins--A fish's wings.
Ice--Water that staid out in the cold and went to sleep.
Nest-Egg--The egg that the old hen measures to make new ones.
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