"little Pitchers Have Great Ears."

"Oh, say, ma!" exclaimed a brifjht little girl at the Hoffman house, while at tonner, "hasn't that mau over tkere got awfol big eare?" "HuBb, child; the gentleman might hear you," cautioned the mother. " Well, ma," returned the precoaious youngster, " if he couldn't hear me with those eare, he ought to haul 'em down."