The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-06-18
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MY BARNS.
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heavy on my back. I hope that the day O
hight-winging is fur blatant / want q gov
erness for them o quiet, staid, encyelo
{ podia of reference, who will undertake 4
do what my wife and I give up as almost al
impossibiity-namely, the answering Of al
questions, and the giving of satisfactory re
plies 10 the various problems ~propounded
by n series of philosophers, male and fe
male, of years Of ripeness varying from
two to ten. '' uU.-aI r
Like Mrs. Pipchin, Igrewdoubtful timid.
suspicious and almost afraid Of the holders
of certain little minds of most ~opinionativt
tendencies such, for instance as one who
running TO me in the hall while
am divesting myself of hat and overcoat,
70 overwhelm me with q piece of informn.
tion which has been in my possession som
six hours, namely, that there is a nov
baby and when l have expressed a proper
amount of surprise, l am posed with the
question Where did it CONF from
Because, pa, Mary says the doctor
brought il, and nurse says it come from
under the big rose in the garden and one
must be wrong"
Good sent Il, my dear but little girls
What do you say2"
81 don't believe God did send it because
If He had, he would not have sent IL when
mamma was too IN to nurse it,"
However, it appears that maid Mary's
version is considered 10 be correct; and the
doctor is watched with curious eyes from
around corners at his mex arrival while
from the direction Of glances toward his
pockets, / feel morally certain that were
that overcoat taken of and hung upon a
peg in the hall, il would be searched for
babies, rs surely as mine often undergoes
the same process for oranges and buns.
Mary's version is canvassed, too, largely /;
and another small sage thinks how nice il
would be TO 20 and live ut the doctors,
since there would be no further need for
dolls, which get Clipped, bleed sawdust,
and loose their eyes and there would be
such lots Of babies to play with.
We have had our little ones duly chris
tened, and We have had them instructed in
the matters set forth TO be learned in the
vulgar tongue butthey willnot be content
with learning and repeating their lessons,
religious and secular they will think, pre-
paratory TO propounding some Of the posers
already alluded 10. One young female,
aged Ave, takes o walk with her mother
upon q hot day in summer, and after pro-
ceeding some distance, begins TO halt.
Mamma perceives that something is wrong,
30 stoops, unfastens the strap of a little
shoe, empties out some dust and sharp
grains Of stone, replaces h shoe, buttons
the strap, and onward trips the little fairy
again, but no. smilingly she IL serious,
and deep IN thought for q few minutes, and
mamma nerves herself for what she fore
sees 10 coming.
Didn't you say, ma, that / was made of
the dust OF the earth p
Eyes, my dearY'
Then i'll was doubt ~implied-"ifI
was, do you think l ever got into anybody's
2"
Little Tom comes in with flaming cheeks,
red as If reflections from the FIRE he had
watched still fingered In the pleasant dim
Piled spots, to petter along the passage, and
at the door of the workshop where
| spend my reading and writing hours a
region tabooed to all edicts published
daily that no n is 10 go near pepa's study
under pain of terrible infections, but the
edicts are always forgotten in times of ex-
element, as in this case and Tom ham
ners away with his hoop stick, and his
voice sounds like that Of q young rock, as
energetically, at twenty second intervals,
out, PA !"
As he will not 90 away, he is admitted,
over with the information that he
has seen a man making a great, large
30 big horse"
But men don't make horses, my boy"
say, as / perch the little form upon my
knee, and the little legS begin 20 swing
Vigorously about. Don't put your hoop
tick in the ink"
'But they do, pa, tor I saw one while l
was out, and Mary stopped and let me
md he'd got a hammer and nails, and one
sg in his lap, and I saw him keep on knock
ng till he'd finished and put II down, and
he hose walked away and will you buy
ne a big horse n ever so big, pa ?"
Then again, 'Totty should always put
Der hands behind her when abe says her
lessons, says mamma and the little sticky,
wet fingers 90 behind the small back.
Nov, Totty," mamma goes on 20 say
who was the first mann
Adam says Totty.
Very good girl" says mamma ''and
now who was the first womanT'
'Mrs. Adam y says Totty, after a min
utes reflection but mamma does not seem
satisfied with the new reading, and Totty is
set right upon the point. It was this young
Lady, who, after another years instruction
in Scriptural knowledge, was one day
questionedconcerning the history of Joseph,
and replied that il was the chief butler of
King Pharoah, who was in prison with
Jacobs younger son .
"And now" said the querist, who was
the other man in prison with Joseph and
the chief butler ?"
1T was evident that lofty did not know,
for one shoulder forced itself u Of the
constraining straps and then the other,
lofty looked at the floor and ceiling for in
formation, but found It not, and the ques-
ton was repeated /:
'tNow, Totty, / told you just now. Who
was in the prison with Joseph aud the CHIEF
butler y
Totty did not know, but she could invent
abe would not give up, and her little face
cleaned with triumph, as directly after the
question was propunded for the last time.
'fWho was in prison with Joseph and the
chief butlerH she exclaimed
The chief tootman r.
I'm sorry to say that Bobby il not hon,
est. he 1t Is who helped himself 10 az
many peapods as he could clutch when
passing the gr~een-grocer's, and was bear
ing them Oh, only Mary perceived 1t in
time, and insisted upon his taking them
back, when the ~greengrocer was foolish
enough 10 laugh, and present the boy with
an apple Of red hue, which kept slipping
out Of the fingers not large enough TO h0ls
it. Bobby it is who makes the baby cry b,
taking away his cakes and biscuits, TO de
vour the wet, sucked, soppy morsels him
self
Ihave my forebodings about Bobby, ant
though It was, NJ doubt, intensely fmn,
70 wet them and stick them ON nosa. chin
cheeks and forehead, yet those postage
stamps al had 70 be gummed again before
! oould use them and I fslt morally Ger