The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-06-18
A STORY FOR THE CHILDREN.
TAKING CARE OF THE HooK.

ny IRs. Ii. n. srowe.
Charley's mother would often sit with
h'm by the FIRE, before the lamp was
lighted in the evening, and repeat to
BIN little pieces of poetry. This is one
that Charley used to like particularly. 1t
was written by Miss Jane Taylor:
"Dear mother" said li.,le Ash,
PRAY is not that fiy,
I'm hungry, and wish
You'd let me 60 and try"
"Sweet innocent the mother cried.
And started from her nook,
THAT hoirid fly is meant to hide
The sharpness of the hoo. 2"
Now, as I've heard. this little trout,
Was Young and silly too,
And so he though, he'd venture out,
To see rha; he coa,d do.
And round ahcu, the hook he played.
With many a longing look
And often to himselfhe said,
I'm sure that's not hook"
i can give one little pluck
To try, and so ! WILL"
So on he went and 10, it stuck
Gaite through his little gill.
And as he faint and fainter grew,
With hollow voice he cried
Dear mother ifld minded you
should not thus have died.
After this was finished. Charley looked
gravely into the fire, and began his re-
marks upon it:
what silly fellow that little trout
was. lie might have known better"
Take care. Charley" said his man
ma; "therc are great many little BOYS
just as silly as this trout For instance,
| knew little boy awhile ago, whose
mamma told him not to touch green ap.
pies or currants, because they would
make him sick. He did not mean to
touch them, for he knew that it is very
dsagreeable to be sick and take medicine,
but yet he did the very same thing that
this little trout did.
"lns'ead of keeping far away, he would
walk about under the trees, pick up the
green apples to look at, and feel of the
green currants, us: as the little fish
would play around the hook BY and
by he said, ! really don't think they
will hurt me will just take one little
taste And then he ate one, and then
another, till finally he got very sick d.
you remember er?'
40, mamma, that was ne. Yes,
remember"
Now Charley, hear what | tell you
nobody does very wrong things because
they meant to at first. People begin by
little, just tasting apd trying what i.
wrong, like this little fish.
Then there is George Jones. { very
fne Toy. IA bright boy, and one who mean,
to do right, bat then, George does no
always keep away from the hook. iov
will see him some times standing arount
places where men are drinking aud swear
ing GEORGE does not mean ever to drinl
or 10 swear; he only stands there to hea
these men sing their songs, and tell tn Ell
stories, and sometimes he will drink jus
n little sip of sugar and spirits ou, of th'
bottom of a tumbler; but take care
George, the little hsh did not mean to b.
caught either, bat he kept playing roun,
sud round the hook, aud at last he wa
snapped up; and so you will be if yo'
don t take care.
Then William Day means to be Al
honest boy, and you co-ld not make hin
more angry than to tell him he woul,
ever be thief; and yet William play
too mnch around the hook. What doe
he do? Why he will take little thing
out of his fathers desk or shop, or ou
of bis mothers basket or drawers, whcI
he really does not want his father Q
mother to see him or fnd it out. Wi
liam thinks. o, it's only little thing;
ism. much matter | dare say they woul'
Just as leave | would have i: as not. All
, William, do you thitk SO? Why do yo
not 60 to your parents and ask for 1t then
No, the fact is that William Is learnin
TO steal. but he does not beliave that it
stealing, any more than the little hsh bt
| lieved that what looked like fly, was
fact a dreadful hook. by and by,
! William doesn't take care, when he goe
| into shop or store, he will begin to ia K
| little things from his master, just As h
did from his father or mother, and he WI
take more and more, till finally he will
named and aisgraced as a thief, and a
because, like the little fish, lie 'woul
play around the hook. - Our Thartc.