Varieties.
A Puzzler.—Will some of my little readers learn to repeat the following: “Mr. B, did you say, or did you not say, what I said you said? because Mr. C. said you never did say what I said you said. Now, if you did say that you did not say what I said you said, then what did you say?”
Feeding the Poultry.—I know a little girl, who feeds her mother’s poultry; and I believe she takes the entire care of them. She gives them corn to eat, and fresh water to drink, every day. There is one chicken, which she says is very greedy, and always tries to get more than his share; and that, you know, is very disagreeable. So his little mistress shuts this greedy fowl up, sometimes, in a coop, and makes him eat his dinner by himself, as she thinks he sets a bad example to the other chickens. Do you not think so, too?
A sharp Reply.—A countryman sowing his ground, two smart fellows riding that way, one of them called to him, with an insolent air, “Well, honest fellow, ’tis your business to sow, but we reap the fruits of your labor.” “’Tis very likely you may,” replied the man, “for I am sowing hemp.”
An imitative Horse.—A gentleman had a horse, which, after being kept in the stable for some time, and turned out into the field, where there was a pump well supplied with water, regularly obtained a quantity therefrom by his own dexterity. For this purpose, the animal was observed to take the handle in his mouth, and work it with his head, in a way similar to that done by the hand of man, until a sufficiency of what nature called for was produced in the trough.
Queer.—A country editor, having no deaths in his paper, put in this notice: “Several deaths unavoidably deferred.”