An Observing Boy

- " Pnp:i, diJn'i VOO hip mi: once for biting Tommy ! " '■ Yus iy cliild; vou liurL Inm b;id." ': Well, tlicn papa, you ought to vthip Bia'a nmsio teacher too, for lio bit niü j-cstLTflay right on Ihn mouth, and I kntiw he liurt her bocause s'ie put her arnis around his nock and tried to ohoke him." t5 ' Wliat a ceiinsiirious Har !' exolaimed old Mis. Partington, as she read in :s comiu paper an account of a new countcri'oit wlJicli was said fo con'ain three woiuen and a bust of Washington on each end. ' Wbat!' said she, 'üuueral Washington on a bust ! "tis not so !' and ttiè old lady lifted hor spees and declarcd phc liad knowii tho old gcutleman for tl;e lasl tli i 1 1 y veáis, and slio nover hcard of liis being ou a bust - mueh kss with three womtn, JrS " Wc are bnrn in haste," snys au American writer; We finish our edu catión on tho ïun; we marry on the wing ; we malee a fortune at a strokc, and lose it in the same marnier, to m;ike and lose it again in th twinkling of an eye. Out' body is a locomotive; goiug at tho rato of twüiily-tive milos an hour; our soul is ;i high pressure engiiie; our lifu is like a shooting star, and death overtalies us at last like a flash of liglitaing."