Only a little common flower
Looked boldly up and smiled
To see the happy mother come
A-carrying her Child.

The little Child He laughed aloud
To see the smiling flower,
And as He laughed the Marigold
Turned gold in that same hour.
For she was gay and innocent--
He loved to see her so--
And from the splendour of His face
She caught a golden glow.

* * * * *

AN OPTIMIST.

"I have just completed a fortnight's tour on a tandem, and can
recommend this form of a holiday as the best I know of.... One Sunday
in June, without exaggeration, I was nearly killed twice, and my wife
was overcome with fright."--_C.T.C. Gazette._

* * * * *

"In a competition at Claygate, Surrey, three children caught 182 green
wasps."--_Daily Paper._

It is believed that they would not have been caught if they had not been
green.