The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-12-19

By JULIA GILL.

ooh dear = said little Sophy, almost crying, q
ana so tired Of Jetf. Davis ard cessation and On
! ion Treason treason 7 iulerpCsed Richard,
and all the generals and the war; and mother
has gone out with father. aud grandpa has gone
rC0, aud the upstairs nurse is cross to me she s
got BESSIE and the baby to sleep, and she Won't
| let me speak because she's reading about the
war and down here yOu are all reading about
the war but Benny, and he won't let me whis
per 10 him when it's my dolls cradle he is max
ing, because he wants to hear what you are say
ing about the war. Nc, you mustn't say I'm
sleepy, Clara, and don't want to go 10 bed. Ell
Their; mother said l nigh sit up; but you and
Ernest read al the time, and Ernest doesn't
tthe Inc ia his lap once, and wish God hadn't
made amy Jeff. Davis, he makes my head ache
So
Richards and Benny's boy-laugh at this
point completed Sophys des pair ana she began
10 sob
why, YOU little darling, said Clara, caress-
ing her. we must road about the war; we can't
think of anything else. Uncle VIII is in the
army, you know, and cousin Humphrey, and
Person, and JAIME Wilson, and ever SO many
that We know
'Yes. and the An,ericen Eagle is in danger =
said Richard. i believe you are a ebel =
No, she isn't Rich, said Benny, she has
made two soldiers pin-bnlls; haven't you So
ply p
Yes, 1 seven two, all my own self, and now
[ want Ernest to tell me fairy story Or moth
er goosey
Pooh a mother goose in these times ! said
Richard.
Nothing short Of mother eagle will do for
Richard, said Earnest, but come and sit in my
iap little sister, and | will tell you q nice story.
Let me see Well, once there was boy named
Jack
'Yes, said Sophy, delighted, did he kill any
giants? p
lie was related to Jack that climbed up the
bean-poe above the clouds, and attacked the
giant in red house-the giant that smelled the
blood OF an Englishman; or at any rate he had
imbibed some of his notions. Now think Of
it. Clara, believe the giants house must have
been of bright scarlet color, and that Jack
was Martin Luther
His mother whipped him every morning be-
cause he said his bean had grown SO tall in The
night, said Sopby.
More aud more like, replied Ernest; now
know it must have been Mar tin Luther,s nd my
Jack was full as brave and sturdy rs the bean
vine Jack. His step mother treated him badly,
and he ran away to sea. The Captain wouldn't
carry him where he wanted to go, but left him
on great sand bank where nobody lived. How
ever, on looking about, he found there were
plenty of great trees a little way on, and he had
d whole chest Of tools with him and he thought
he could make a living. Beng, like Benny
here, OF d mechanical turn, he went to work and
built great house. and when it was done il
tur8ed out 10 be brewery
What foolish fellow ! said Benny.
Yes, it was great brewery. You see he
could raise bareley all around on the new land
and he was going to make a very medicilnal
kind of beer which would cure everybody that
I'll, ~ r,ll+ ;,,,4r
soon some more fellows away, and come to
him, ana they all worked in the brewery, and
then Jack put up on the pinnacle of the build.
ing large gold eagle, which looked as fierce
as fifty troopers he held in his beak an
enormous flag on which was inscribed those
words
This is the house that Jack built"
| Yes; that's nice, sale SOphy.
| And all the fellows that hadn't any home
| pursuei Ernest, and that had stepmothers VINO
abused them, come 10 hive under the wings Of
the great spread eagle. But among those who
came to Jacks house was q half-broIher OF his
named George Carlos, crazy, 4agh-tempered
fellow, who liked to wear diamond rings and
keep his hands soft and delicate; and he brought
with HIM large black nharirat that he had
tam ed, and this rat soon began 10 make trouble
/ by gnawIug at the bags OF malt that lay in the
house that Jack built.
/ ny don't y GU say II was his sister Virginia
/ that brought over the rat 2 suggested Clara
I % no said Richard.
/ We'll, I suppose she did, replied Ernest
/ bat she gave il 10 George Carlos, and how be
| petted it,. The creature grew enormously, and
in process OF time he made such havoc among
the malt that was TO make The ue6icated beer
that some OF the brothers objected seriously
bat aCk said 1t wouldn't DO 10 have trouble
with George Carlos, he was such a hot headed
fellow, anu they must put up with his ways fol
the sake OF peace; so the rat grew, and grew
and gHawed and gnawed, aud not only wasted
the matt that should have made The healing bee
which was to go out in all the word,-but be
began at last to guaw the timbers of the house
@ld he gu5 10 WORK on be very foundations 0
the bui.ilg, 50 Jaac all but George Carlos be
gan 10 open their eyes, ana hey said mildly
Isn't there any way 10 stop the ravages of thi
rat? y Then George Carlos lew in q passion
and he said. III you touch that rat l will clea
out and leave the whole concern. l should thel
like TO see what you would do for a gentleman
among You =
Yes, / understand said Benny
Then Jack said, 1t won't do to split, we mus
make q compromise with him.
What's that, Ernest:' asked Sophy.
oh, he said, 'YoU-must keep the rat in you
rooms aud NirgiDia's :, and there sha'n't nvbod
NEEDLE with ii. Well, Jack built new room
10 his establishment and more and more runa
ways came TO live with him, and some of tn
inmates of the new rooms declared they woul