Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-06-25
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being the possessor of large number Of
very keenly pointed young arrows-barbed
no doubt but the barbs have never yet
torn flesh winged, too, doubtless they
are, and in all good time they will take,
suppose, their fight but though they are
very expensive, aud THE quiyer-full weighs
heavy on my back. hope that the day of
flight-winging is far blatant / want a gov
erness for them "a quiet staid, encyclo-
poedia of reference, who will undertake to
do what my wife and give up as almost an
nnpossibility-namely, the answering of all
questions, and the giving of satisfactory re-
plies To the various problems propounded
by series of philosophers, male and fe-
male, Of years Of ripeness varying from
two to ten.
Like Mrs. Pipchin, Igrew doubtful, timid,
suspicious and almost afraid OF the holders
of certain little minds Of most opinionative
tendencies such, for instance, as one who
comes running to me in the hall while l
cam divesting myself of hat and overcoat
to oyerwhelm me with piece Of informR-
ton which has been in my possession some
six hours, namely that there is o, new
baby; and when have expressed q proper
amount of surprise am posed with the
question (: Where did it come from?" y
4eBecause, pa, Mary says the doctor
brought it, and nurse says it come from
under the big rose in the garden and one
must be wrong" iI.o lU2 tt,,.t,', u, \
l;;dGod sent il, my dear but little girls
shouldn't ask such questions--What's that ?
What do you say P"HHi ie 's' '..& g''t
II don't believe God did send it because
if He had, he would not have sent it when
mamma was, too i'll to nurse it." ''."
However, it appears that maid Mary's
version is considered to be correct; and the
doctor is watched with curious eyes from
around corners at his next arrival while
from the direction of glances toward his
pockets, feel morally certain that were
that oyercoat taken off and hung upon a
peg in the hall, it would be searched for
babies, as surely as mine often undergoes
the same process for oranges and buns.
Mary's version is canyassed, too, largely;
and another small sage thinks how nice it
would be to 90 and live at the doctors,
since there would be no further need for
dolls, which get chipped, Bleed sawdust,
and loose their eyes /; and there would be
such lots Of babies 70 play with gsU
We have had our little ones duly chris
tened, and we have had them instructed-i in
the matters set forth to be learned in the
vulgar tongue but they will not be content
with learning and repeating their lessons,
religious and secular they will think, pre-
paratory to propounding some of the posers
already alluded to. One young female,
aged FIVE takes a. walk with her mother |
upon hot day IN summer, and after pro-
ceeding some distance, begins to halt |
Mamma perceives that something is wrong, |
so sto6ps, unfastens the strap Of a little |
shoe, empties out some dust and sharp |
grains Of stone, replaces the shoe, buttons
the strap, and onward trips the little fairy /
again, but mot smilingly she is serious,
and deep in thought for few minutes, and
mamma nerves herself for what she fore
sees is coming.
Didn't you say, ma, that l was made of
the dust Of the earth 2" .a.-,
Eyes, my dearP" ea
"Then if was, doubt implied -'if I
was, do you think ever got into anybody's
shoeY #t,. -ir
Little Tom comes in with flaming. cheeks,
red us if reflections from the fire he had
watched still fingered in the pleasant dim
pied spots, to patter along the passage, and
hammer at the door of the workshop where
l spend my reading and writing hours-a
region tabooed to all (; edicts published
dolly that no one is to go near papa's study
under PAIN Of terrible inAictions, but the
edicts are always forgotten in times Of ex-
citement, as in this case and Tom ham, !
mers away with his hoop stick, and his
voice sounds like that Of a young rook, as
he energetically, at twenty second intervals,
shouts out, 'Pa y
AS he will not go away, he is admitted, i
boiling over with the information that he
has seen a man making great large
ever so big horse"
''But men don't make horses, my boy" I
say, as perch the little form upon my I
knee, and the little legs begin to swing /
vigorously about. Don't put your hoop {
stick in the ink
"But they do, pa, toz saw one while l Z
was out, and Mary stopped and let me !
and he'd got a hammer and nails, and one (
leg in his lap, and saw him keep on knock
ing till he'd finished and put it down, and (
the hose walked away and will you buy
me big horse; one ever SO big, pa ?"
Then again, "Totty should always put I
her hands behind her when she says her 1
lessons, says mamma and thelittle sticky, {
wet fingers go behind the small back. {
''Now, Totty," mamma goes on to say
"who was the first man" '
adam, says Totty
Every good girl, says mamma !; "and [
now who was the first woman?" .'' |
Mrs. Adam p says Totty, after min |
ute's reflection; butmamma does not seem
satisfied with the new reading, and Totty is
set right upon the point. II was hisyoung
lady, who, after another years instruction
in Scriptural knowledge, was one day
questioned concerning the history of Joseph,
and replied that it 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 p 7la5 4
''It was evident that Totty did not know,
for one shoulder forced itself ont Of the
constraining straps and then the other,
Totty looked at the floor and ceiling for in
formation, but found it not and the ques-
ton was repeated ?
''Now, Totty, told you Just now. Who
was in the prison with Joseph and the chief
butler r. n..t b.al. Pr ai ,o
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she would not give up, and her little face
cleaned with triumph, as directly after the
question was propunded for the last time.
who was In prison with Joseph and the
chief butler?" she exclaimed 'l'
THE chief footman" |" rt
'1'm sorry to say that Bobby is not hon.
est. He it is who helped himself to as
many peapods as he could clutch when
passing the green-grocer's, and was bear
ing them of, only Mary perceived it in
time, and insisted upon his taking them
back, when the greengrocer was foolish
enough to laugh, and present the boy with
an apple Of red hue, which kept slipping
out Of the fingers not large enough to hold
it Bobby il is who makes the baby cry by
taking away his cakes and biscuits, to de-
vour The wet, sucked, soppy morsels him
self ,s;ma,il fs
haye my forebodings about Bobby, and
though 1t was, no doubt, intensely funny
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