The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1843-12-02

who was always planning something that
would IN his own opinion increape the rev.
enae Of the farm, and thus make him big.
ger man when his old dads will g. tesla +.
me6,s where made out. lie was forever
saving at the spile and letting out q, The
failing which is rather COM
mon among us bipeds.
= One day as The lowering. heavens por.
tended coming storm, the old man said
70 his specializing SON.
''Jake, take them ERE tarnal oxen down
to water, and then go 20 the field and rake
up the hay, Cor them clouds look tn. eatuing -
Jake, as in duty bound, took the oxen
down to the stream, over The limped bosom
Of which was rude log bridge. The thrs
ty herd soon measured the distance betwee n
their noses and The wa er, and while they
were -luxuriating. Jake espied plump,
large pike, weighing, according to his calcu-
lation, abont nine or ten pounds,
The fish seemed poised in its liquid ell.
ement SO steadily that i,appeared inanimate
.Tha,'s whapper!'' said Jake to him.
self. 81 guess as how that cri,,er would
make breakfast for all hands TO- morrow,
and save farther lots of bacon and eggs
Golly wish Id hook and bait, I'D show
him a Yankee trick. I'll bet the thing'e
asleep--he lays there SO quiet and nice one
might almost pickle him alive"
"Jake!" beloved the old man from the
house, ''stack that ere hay the gust is com
ing"
"Father's mighty ierce," continued the
boy, gazing on The fsh--"he dos't know
what's whal.-Now if I'd that pike, guess
he wouldn't think much Of he hay! reck-
on il must weigh obout twenty pounds. Why
larnation take the varmini, he hasn't stirred
yet"
sake go to work on thai. ere hay !reite-
rated the father.
"Falher's calling, and the rains. begins
ming to fall guess the pixies worth more
than The hay. It's breakfast for member
of Congress. | wish father'd stop making
that ihunderin' noise. THAT fish will feed
twenty men-and hay or no nay I'll have
it,"
The rain now began to pour, and the old
man continued his calI--but Jake sure OF
his prey, poised his pilchfork steadily, all
the while mu,tering, sbreakfast for all hand
bacon and eggs saved--hay kst.'--The
doubled pronged harpoon flew into the
chr, stol element, The bubbles rose, and the
surface for moment was dark and muddy
"Ha! I've got the varmint," exclaimed
the boy, STOPPING down to witness the dying
agonics Of his viclim--s we'll have prime
breakfast.
But the fish was gone! The mist passed
from the ripping waters, and left nothing
but the pitchfork stricking in the pebble bot
tom.
Tarnaiion to you, said Jake as he say
The Pickerel darting darling down tn
stream.
sl'm not sorry you're gone, for you're nc
north the fat Il ,0ould take to fry you.
i CRUEL DEcEPpIoN.--The Rocheste
Democrat says young man in that city
whose Incorporate habits had reduced b
|, family to want, signed the temperate
pledge about six months kept it faithful.
during which time he has lega;ned. h
, strength and made his family comparaiiy
! " comfortable. Some two months ago
was employed by tavern keeper at who's
house he boarded His zeal for ten
peranee enraged his employer, ar
. induced him 10 form plan to make Il
noble hearted reformed inebriate break h
pledge. TO effect this he mixed whiske
with some ginger beer, which he poured 0
$ Of beer bottle, and it was unconscious
> drank by the unfortunate victim. Beto
j, he detected the fraud, the poor fellow nj
D tasted the alcohol. His poor wife and ch
dren are again beggared; and none b
y those who knows what drunkard's fami
d suffers, can conceive the misery which 1t
family has endured since the success Of u
fiendish plot to destroy their peace.
e Heapy Men.--The largest person ev
i known in lrcland, with perhaps, the exec
" ton Of Philip Machoule, the celebrated ir'
giant, was Roger Byrne, who resided
Ossory and was buried On the 9Th Of Ma
d 1857, in the church-yard Of Roossennal
II in Queens county. The coffin and
con.enis weighed Eve hundred and seven'
rle;ght pounds. l. was borne on very lol