The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1855-01-27
far the Enps anu Girls.
THE RCOSTE NOT II E r .
Il true Story for tie LWie Ones.
ny GRACE GREENWOOD.

Il true So,yJ1r tie LUtIe Ones.
ny GRACE GREENWOOD.
farmyar'l, plump, pretty, gay-fea.hered hen,
Who among all the fowls was the livcl;est
scratchcr and the merrest cackler, except
when she was sitting on nest full Of eggs.
when she was so cross that there was no COM
ing near her-always squallins and bristlins
up ON the slightest provocaton. She had a
particular spite agains: the young pullets who
bu. could 60 gadd;ng and cackling about just
As .hey.pleased.
She always appeared to be in atcrrible hur-
~ to have her brood Matched and starte,, in
the world and those poor weakly or lazy
chicks who were the last to get out Of their
shells, she was apt to treat very unkindly.
One time. she sat on ten good eggs, and in
one day Matched nine fine chickens. But the
she'll Of the tenth egg remained unbroken for
some time longer. At last, after good dca'
Of picking.and rolling and kicking about, il
popped open and puny little cockerel crawl
ed out-"pcep," peepins" in scared, r't'lu'
way, that ought to have touched: any nc,::
mothers heart. But this proud bildy seeing
that he was go small and ugly, and being very
angry because he had kept her waiting so
long-cooly turned her back on him, and de-
voted herself to her stronger and prettier
children. That night she refused to brood
him, and actually drove him from the nest
II it had been cold weather, think he would
have died, but though such wee young
thing, he had sense enough to see that if hi,
mother would do nothing for him, he must
look out for himself, and as he could not nes-
liz under her wing. he determined TO make
the best OF her tail-!eathers. So under their
shelter, he managed to keep tolerably COM
Portable till morning. After that the hen
treated him little bctter--but she often
molded him and clawed him, and he led sad
life. Many times when the children flung
crumbs to her and her Lrood, she would drive
this poor little hai-.tarved chick away-and
he would run and hide in TIE curraIt bushes,
and hang his head, aud drop his small tail,
and y-bc wish that Il. had never been !
hatched.
Now it happened that there WAS also in
that farm yard Il goo! Old rooster, who. OBJ
serving how crue... ihc little c"ckerei was .
treated. resolved to adopt him. So one day
he took him under his protection; he hunted
grain and worm. for him. fought for him at
meal times, and even brooied him at night,
till he was old enough to roo,t
Under his care, the young Cockcrel grew
strone and handsome. and my readers will
be glad to hear that he treated lis rooster
.,other with Kindness and respect. AS for
his own mother, you will be Glad also to hear
that he once had the opportunity OF defend !
ing her from a fierce rat. lie went at it, with
bsak and spur, and soon drove it bleeding
and squcaling into its hole.
A RARE SCmOLAR.-The Boston Trans
cript has the following: One day last sum-
n,er, the teacher of a certain district school
in New ENGLAND, after putting the usual qucs-
tions-"Who is President ?. What state 60
you live in 2" &c., to juvenile class, asked
= little boy what his fathers name was. "E
y-c l, z-i-c-h, .aac, Isaac The old scholars
laughed outright at this new way Of spelling
q common name even the teacher smiled
but commandin. silence. she set the lad righ:
and proceeded with her questions. What
IL your mothers name :" Rachel" "Spell
Rachel" "W-r-e-t-c-h Rach, hell, Rachel"
The smart boy was Immediately given Re
ward of Merit, and Dismissed.
BiRps.-A bird is model ship construct
ell BY the hand of God, in which the condi-
tons OF swifincss, manasrability, and light
ness are absolutely and necessarily the same
as in vessels built by the hand Of man.--
There are not in The world two things which
resemble each other more strongly. mechan-
ically and physically speaking, than the car
cass and framework of bird and ship
The breast-bonc so exactly resembles keel
that the English language has retained the
name. The wings are the oars, the tail thu
ruddcr. That original observer, Huber thu
Genevese. who has carefully noted the figh,
Of birds Of prey. has even made use Of thu
metaphor thus suggested to establish char
acter,stic distinction between rOwerS and sail
crs. The rOwcrs are the falcons, who have
the first or second wing feather the longest
"..A L. IL :; 80 It, i.w"rf,
oar to dart ri.h, into the winds eve. Til.
mere sailers are the eagles, the yultures, and
the buzzards, whose rounded wings resemble
sails.-IlOuschoid Words.
eB"I cannot bear children" said Mis-.
rrim. disdainfuly. Mrs Darlington looking
over her spcctacIcs mildly before she re.
plicd-"Perhaps if YOU could, YOU would like
them better"
STREET TALE Two sons of Erin were
moraIizrg over the result OF the late election