Very Smart Lad

-As we were walk ing übing tlm street, tlie oIIvt duy, we noticed a crowd of urchins standing around a boy wbo was suekiug a iiece of candy, l'I say, Bill," s:iid ona ot' them, "giye me tliat oandy, and I'ii mke i% ooine out of my ears, like litz did last nig'it at the tbeatre." Second youth shells over the Ganriy. P)rt youth very ilulilieratelv e:tn ttio oandy - seoond youih watches ths linie fellow's eta - and aftur drawing hiraelf into every Bonocivable shape, Le suiá: ''Wull, il" I baint forgot the rest, as ure as rags."