A CHILD'S DESCRIPTION OF HER NURSE
[To the Editor of the SPE.e.r.vron.]
Sm,—As you arc dealing with the compositions of children, the enclosed may interest you. It was spontaneously written by my little daughter at the age of seven. Among the words which may cause difficulty perhaps are " cwere "—queer; " sersif "—as if ; " obalongly "—in an oblong manner.
MY NIRS.
My Nirs has a very fin (thin) face, and she has got blue eyes, becaues she is allwas looking at the sky. And wen she grins she grins to ear to ear and to eye to mouth, and she has a little dent in both cheecs, and her hair is dark brown, and she has a very ewer° kind of larf, she makes a very cwere nois wen she laths, and wen she gigls she looks very mere inded, I call it amarcably ewero, and she is allwas very wito, she looks sersif she is ill she is so wits. She has a forerd as smooth as a hundrerd eges, and wen she grins she grins ohalongly, and her eyes are to big for her face, and her eye lashes are to big for her eyes.
—I am, Sir, &c., P.S.—Perhaps I may add another original production of the same young person when she was hardly more than three years old. This time it was an unprecedented and inexplicable addition to her usual and entirely conventional evening prayer. It ran " Make Betty a' good girl, and a big girl, and a mother, and a lady, and a cook ! "
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