Dangerous Pudding

A three-and-a-half-year-old girl gave this warning to her brother: "I say, don't eat so much of that pudding or you will have to have some 'Bubizin'." "'Bubizin'?" asked her mother, "What's that?" "When I was ill," answered the child in self-justification, "I had to have some Medezin."

Serenissimus

Serenissimus was making a tour through his provinces and noticed a man in the crowd who bore a striking resemblance to his own exalted person. He beckoned to him and asked: "Was your mother at one time in service in the Palace?" - "No, your Highness," was the reply, "but my father was."