WHAT WAS NEEDED. "Mamma, can I play ogre?" "Yes, my dear, if you wish." "All right. Give me a piece of cake." "Cake?" "Yes; you have to have a piece of cake to play ogre. You see, I'm to be the ogre, and the cake is the boy that gets ate up." * * * * * PROOF TO THE CONTRARY. "I don't believe the world is going round all the time," said Jack. "Fact, I know it isn't. If it was, when I jumped up in the air it would have slid right away from under me." * * * * * A WONDERFUL ANIMAL. "Willie Robbins has got an invisible monkey," said Tommy. "How do you know?" asked his mamma. "I went home with him to see it, and when he brought it out you couldn't see it at all," said Tommy. * * * * * ALL HE NEEDED. "Are you head of your class, Hal?" asked the visitor. "No, sir," replied Hal. "I would be if we had a big earthquake that'd turn everything upside down, though." * * * * * FREDDY. "What is Mr. Slippens running so fast for?" JAMES. "Why, don't you know? He's trying to catch his breath." End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, December 3, 1895, by Various