"The Young Visiters'" as reported in the "'N.-C. Daily News" has been dramatized.
If a little Chinese girl were so presumptuous as to write a book, we can imagine how the literati and students of Confucius would admire it! It would be discussed by politicians, praised by military generals, and be the tit-bit of con versation in harems. The produc. tion would be dramatized by competent authorities and the little child would be applauded in all quarters. Or perhaps the general comment would be: "Why should all these clever men cackle over the foolish mistakes of a hsiao hai But literary men in Great Britain have more than once been attracted by the mischievous prattle of an infant. The little Scotch girl of six who wrote: "Isa has given me advice which is that when I feel Satan beginning to tempt me that I flea him and he would flea me" was just as successful in her attempts in the field of letters as this twentieth century maiden. While Marjorie Fleming died at the age of eight, Daisy Ashford has grown to womanhood and can now no more write than fly. The former had as patron an even greater personality than Sir James Barrie to whom Miss Ashford owes all her luck.' it Walter Scott considered Mar-jone "the most extraordinary thing he had ever met with."
No wonder! The following emanated from her diminutive peni—"T am going to-morrow to a delightful place where there is two dogs, two cats and swine. I think'it is shocking that the dog and cat should bear them, and they are drowned after all.
I would rather have a man-dog than a woman-dog because they do not bear like women-dogs: it is a hard case, it is shocking."
The little child Marjorie evidently knew a lot about love which she described as a "papithetic thing" (pathetic). She writes "Yesterday a marrade man offered to kiss me and marry me although the man was espoused and his wife was present."
She talks about herself as a "Joveress." Despite her immature ity she could fling about expletives when she felt inclined to let off a little steam. Her multiplication table she hates.
"Tt is the most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7."
In one verse of poetry she chants "But she was more than usual calm, "She did not give a single dam."
A clever child, forsooth! No won der intelligent men admire her. Schoolmasters, however, are in. clined to scoff. They consider that "funnier" mistakes are daily occurtences in class and that if a little child writes "nolege" for know-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.