The District Railways Bill 1 Lord 1 Lord 1 what a heap of iniquity that precious docu ment is fated to cover up. Je-hosophat! when one thinks of the past, and the two or three neat .little jobs perpetrated, the Duntroon and Hakaterimia transaction for one. And now the country is going to absolve everybody, and pay big premiums for barefaced roguery, for it amounts to nothing less. Aud a lot of people, who deserve hanging instead, are to specially benefit by it, and are now grinning audaciously and sticking their tongues in their cheeks. And so the world goes round; virtue ever at a discount, and rascality at a premium.
The precocity of colonial children shows it self m a variety of ways, but mostly in a certain old-fashioned demeanor, the reflection from the adults with whom they mingle much. They are also not infrequently priggish, as witness the reply of a small boy to a fond mother who was chiding her nurselings for cry ing instead of going to sleep. “ There, there, my dears, don’t cry ; dry your eyes,” said she. “Gobi ooh!” replied young hopeful, “Notdry your eyes, mother, but dry your tears !” He had been to a dame’s school.
