Humor Out of the Mouths of Babes

1910

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Margie's mother was sowing some seeds and explaining how they would come up plants.
"Oh, yes!" exclaimed Margie, "they go to bed babes and get up grown people."

Teacher -- "In this sentence, 'The sick boy loves his medicine,' what part of speech is 'loves'?"
Small Boy -- "Please, ma'am, it's the part that ain't so."

Little Fred had been reading about Darwin and one day he said: "Grandpa, I want to ask you something."
"Well, what is it, Fred," queried the old gentleman.
"When you were a monkey," said the small student, "did you have a tail?"

Stern Parent (bringing out the strap) -- "Now, Tommy, I suppose you know why I am going to whip you, don't you?"
Little Tommy -- "Yes, sir. You are going to whip me because I am so small. If I was as big as the man next door you wouldn't dare lay a finger on me."

-The Des Moines News, Des Moines, Iowa, February 13, 1910, page 11.