31 DECEMBER 1898, Page 16

[To TER EDITOR Or THZ " srscrAroz."3

Sus,—Two anecdotes illustrative of the inconsiderate pitiless- neas of children may amuse your readers. The late Lady Taylor, wife of Sir Henry, gave a child's party, at which the effigy of a man, possibly a Guy Fawkea, was burnt-. The children went home in great exultation: "Lady Taylor (

has been so kind. She burnt a real man for us ! " The other story was, I understand, related by Sir E. Burne- Jones. A bluebottle fly on a window-pane was thus accosted by a little girl : "Is oo a dood bluebottle P" The fly's silence was held to give assent. "Would oo like to doe [go] to heaven?" Still no answer. "Then doe." And the naughty child inflicted euthanasia on the bluebottle as ruth- lessly as it would have been inflicted by Father Bowles in