--_Lowell_.
He gives twice who gives quickly.--_Syrus_.
A gallant Tommy, having received from England an anonymous gift of
socks, entered them at once, for he was about to undertake a heavy
march. He was soon prey to the most excruciating agony, and when, a
mere cripple, he drew off his foot-gear at the end of a terrible day,
he discovered inside the toe of the sock what had once been a piece of
stiff writing-paper, now reduced to pulp, and on it appeared in bold,
feminine hand the almost illegible benediction: "God bless the wearer
of this pair of socks!"--_Punch_.
We like the gift when we the giver prize.--_Sheffield_.
_See also_ Christmas gifts.
GIRLS
Son has just begun to go to school, and has much to say about the new
little girls he meets, but every few days it is a different girl
that attracts him. His mother said, "I'm afraid, son, that you are
changeable."
"'Tain't me that changes, mom," he answered; "it's them, when you know
them better."
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to
be.--_Goethe_.
GOD
A little girl traveling in a sleeping-car with her parents greatly
objected to being put in an upper berth.
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