The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1869-01-02
ssItttea .tsrtIluna.
ruE goOD.NATuRED PRNpuLun.

z
THE GOOD.NATURED PENDULUM.
Z From the Atlantic for January.
AN old clock, which stood In the corner
Of PaFs0n Whipple's schoolroOrn, sudden
lE began to tick twice as fast as usual II
did 50 for two or four hours, according M
you counted time by It's beats or 10 An
hourglass. Then il ticked for fac re.
mainder Of its life atapparently t'ae same
rate as usual, This was never discon.
tented pendulum; and on that tiay. SINGLE.
ton and !, who were the onl y bows hi its
counsels, thought it was yery good.
i, natured
aa But dOnotpretend Z was right Have
said it was right fJr the pendulum 10
3 tick so2 have y ~ said it. have only
SAD that II was good.natured in the pen,
auium % tleI twice as fast as usual when
SIN lply knew that wished It to do so.
AIR lough 4 was then responsible for what
the pendulum did, I assert that am not
noW responsible for it. was then four
leen, and am now hard on ifty-six, SO
must have changed atomically six times
since then. 1 reject responsibility for all
my acts at Parson Whipple's. | DO not
Justify the pendulum, / do not Justify
myself far less do / justify Singleton.
only say. 1T was good.natured pendu-
lum.
i happened thus:
We were all 10 20 after Chestnuts, and
we had made immense preparation, the
old dominic not unwilling We had
sewed up into many bags some old bed
tick, dear kind Miss TTyphosa had given
us; w had eeaxed Clappis cousin Per ms
y. --so4 Of Matthew Perkins third, 0f The
old black Perkins blood had ooaxed
# him into getIing the black mare for us
sfom his father Clapp was to harness
him. and we were to have the school
wagon to bring our spoils home. We had
laid in with the Yarnnnn boys TO meetus
at the crossroads in the hollow and, In
short we were to give the treea such q
belaboriDg as chestnut-trees had not
known in many years. For all this we
had the grant Of halfholiday We had
By great luck q capital sharp frost on
Tuesday, we had everything but-time
I Red Jacket would have told as we
za had flll the time there was, and, If Mr..
Em1rson had come along, he might
have enforced the lesson But he was
elsewhere just then, and the trouble with
h us was, that, having ailthe time there was,
Weswanted more. And no hard beslead
"A conductor oilsa singletrack road, eager to
Wfn make the time which he must have to
reach the predestined switch in season,
ever questioned and entreated his enei-
neer more Yolubly than we assailed each
other AS to how we could make the short
afternoon answer for the gigantic purpos-
es Of this expedition You see there Is 4
compensation il all things If you kayg
ever gone after chestnnts, you have found
out that the sun sets mighty near 1iyt
o'clock when You come to the 10th Of 0c
8toher and L you don't get through
school till one, and then must ell have din
ncTsI / tell you itisEery hard to start four
teen boys after dinner, and drive the nag
on, and walk the boys down 70 the Hol
low, and then meet the VarnuIns and drive
up that rough road to Clapp's grand
mothers, and then take down the bar
N, and lead the horse ia through the pasture
y towhere we meant TO tie him in the edgl
Il. of the hemloek second growth, and theI
tocarry the bags across the stream, and 8.
work up on the hill where the best tree
are e;;--I say it Is very hard to do ell tina
and come out on The road again and d
the way home before dark And il yol
think II is easy to do ii in three hours ant
hall, wish you would try. All is, ] vii
not give sixteen cents for al Chi
chestnuts you get in that way
s So % said, We wanted to make th
time. Well, dear Miss Tryphosa said tina
shewould put dinner at twelve, II "
liked, and il we could coax the domini
10 legA1s out Of school then. 80 We aslxe
Haekmataok to ask bin, and Hackmstac
did not dare to, but he coaxed Sarah els
veFs 10 ask him. The old man loved Sara
Clagers, AS everybody did, She was6
sweet little thing and ahe did her best
Old man, / call him That was the IN
We talked Let me 500, he graduated
1874 ,--L guess he Was IA EyeTetts elai
and Frothinghaui's The old man. Z
We called him, must have been thirtl
seven years Old then, nineteen veal
younger than am to-day Old man y
deed
Well, litfle Sarah did her prettiest. ~
the ola man there It Is again kissed he
and stro her flee sfd said be had 81
en- the school halfholiday, and
thought hisduties to tho parents torhas
"A bis giving any more. And when litt
Sarah tried again, all be would say wa
that, Il we would get up early and
dressed when tho lirst bell ranQ, we mig
40 in Z To school aa tt instead Of min
Then school could hh done az twelve,
Miss Tryphosa might do as she cho
about dinner, but, 4 she chose We mig
be 81 before one This was s0methii
faa83 and We made Inc lA1qAt VI tls
Still We wished we could make b liti
more time And Hs itw was ordered,
III, il have no doubt, though, as said,
rs not pretend V Justly tho use We naa
81 The order,.-ss It was ordered, q
verY Tuesday afternoon, when We we
all az work la school poln, Brefeton
th6t southern Roy, you know was rec
iae 'eientiao Dialogues to the 81
a8 1 think Ii must have been Scien
de Dialogues bnt am not sure.
ecifine about the pendulum. y he
man told him abont Galileo's chsndelie
fenauh
Wel ths and theEo Saw tho wh
thing "a ny mind as ssa u now Slne
Ten saw f65e war hearing sona
tie boys I'd Alber finua bit he iurl
roana ap ald 3affi ma lAl
iae8 lacked Alii 3a0 fpa
from that day to this h0vc e haa
dissass the d9lai of The matl p
niy No 5ud aid ihrqe iaiu eni
daenCe Dc tbai stase and gt h=