Irate Passenger (scrambling into in omnibus that did not stop):- "Suppose I slipped and lost a leg, what then?" Conductor : "You wouldn't have to do any more jumping then, sir. •' We al ways stop for folks with crutches." ,

" He answered them, 'It is certainly a very good caus© which leads me to un • dertafie this journey,and/ifeiWhenieach ing the place I ant ■gOlng^'to, I find everything agreeable and nice, then- I shall, perhaps, be pleased with it, but - if I find it a bad, disagreeable place, I shall be disgusted with it."?-" They re plied to hiih, "What you say is exceea , ingly true, depart then upon your jour - ney, with your great knowledge and. skilV in^&sfeic^r ' Jnen'^thwr brotlij* vmt'inio 1 tfce-\w>odf and oaine back ■!»*- * them again, looking just as .if he wer* a real pigeon. His brothers 'were fUite delighted, and they had no power jleil to do anything but admire him.. _' ' ' Then off he.lew,; ,u^tith«ieame !o th cave which Had run down. into, and hV /-lifted up the tuft ot rushes; then down he went and dis appeared in the' cave, and shut up ltd mouth again so as to hide tho entrance. Away he flew, very fast indeed, and twice he dipped hia wing, because tho cave waa so narrow ; he dipped first one wing and then the other, but th« cay» now widened and he dashed straight on. ' " ■ - , At last he saw a pUrty of people com ing along under a grove of trees; they were manapau trees,* and, flying on, he pewhed upon the top of one of these trees, under which the people had seat ed themselves; and when he saw his mother lying down on the grass ".y Ino side of her husband he guessed at once who they were, and he thought, ' Ah ! there-»srt"TOy^4»ther-»nd'>niother 'right ■ 'ainder. me*; .-and he aotfn.vheard their names, as they we're called ; to by their friends who were "sitting with tnem. Then the pigeon '"hopped 'down, and perched- on- another spray a.' little low»r, and it i pecked o« t one of thp berries ol the tree and dropped it gently aown, and hit the father' with it on the forc. 