HEN Toots first went to the Kindergarten he met there a little boy whose name was Paul Brown. He was a very bright little fellow, but he could not talk as well as Toots; some of his words were cut short and it sounded very cunning, for Paul did his best and the Kindergarten teacher told the boys and girls that no one could do better than his best. One day a little baby sister came to Paul's house and this is the story he told his grandpa when the old gentleman came in to see the stranger:

PAUL'S REMARKS AT FOUR YEARS OF AGE.

"Fink I don't know what dat fing is,

All wrapped up in gwanma's lap?

I does; nurse told me so to-day,

It's my sisser tatin' a nap.

"She's only a piece of a day old now,

But she looks like any fing;

Wight out of her great eyes all boo,

An', ganpa, she can sing:

"There, don't you hear her, naughty dirl?

She skuled dat way—because

I feeled her foots, to see if 'em gowed

Like mine or pussy's claws.

"Sissers ain't nice to sing dat way,

And gwanma holds her snug;

I wouldn't cuy if her holded me,

All up in dat pwetty rug.

"Oh, yes, me knows, she's a sisser, she is,

An' I'm jess a boy, dat's all;

Sissers ain't dood for much, I fink,

Why, her couldn't hold my ball.

"Dess if I was made a piece of a day,

I would know some more dan dat;

No, ganpa, sissers ain't dood for much,

I'll do and find my cat."

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