WISE CHILD.
Reading edition
"Papa, I know why Napoleon needed to sleep only four hours every night."
"Why, my son?"
"Because he took a Nap everywhere he went."
A district school teacher in New Hampshire has had great difficulty in explaining adverbs to a class of children. After toiling faithfully with them, he said: "Bring in a list of adverbs to-morrow. Remember that a great many adverbs ends in ly."
The next day one boy's list began: Slowly, fastly, lily, emily!
Mamma labelled her jars of sweets, "Put up by Mrs. Kay"; Later it read upon those meats, "Put down by Tommy Jay."