Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-06
Egys-By h. ". Beecher.

ana unknown to the most searching of
nousekeepers, without sense of boyish
delight, which would bring down on me
reproving looks and grave admonition
nom all who have an awful sense of the
proper dignity Of ministers. But have
NO doubt soda and acids come together
with the very best resolutions. They are
determined to restrain themselves, and
mot toam over. Yet the first drop of
water sets them of, and they make bub.
bles and throw them in each others faces
st furious rate, in spite of all the efforts
At selfsovernment. Now, what IL to be
done about it, Were they not made so :
And are not some people made 30 as to
effervesce easilys WY they were made
SO, is question that should be addressed
to another quarter.
Well, l was saying that the discovery
OF hidden eggs was always an excitement,
and there have been times when the ex-
element was prolonged and extreme. 1t
Glanced in this wise, and N the goodly
State of Indiana.
No more neat, careful, exact and scru-
pulous housekeeper ever was seen IN the
Hoosier State, than our fair landisdy, who
had us inspecial charge during the alb
sence Of our proper head and queen, who
sought health on the seaboard. An old
fashioned barn there was, huge in the
middle, with variety Of sheds, lean.t os,
stables and carriage houses, projecting on
every side of 1t, as If the barn had settled
family Of little barns all around it. 1t
was family barn, beloved of hens and
Pboys for in its roomy interior, and in the
passages, bins, hooks and corners, all
sorts OF frolics might be Carried on, while
an occasional peak" at the cracks would
keep them informed when the old man
was coming.
But hens, who have q secretive tenden.
cy, modesty Of the nest, find their para.
disc in such q voluminous barn, Here
they may lay in silence, and proclaim It
In vociferous cackles, bringing down the
whole barnysrd in chorus, and making
|echoes in the neighboring hen yards, and
|yet the searcher find nothing!
THAT pesky hen! che lays every day,
and yet we are none the better for her
eggs wonder where the creature hides!
L. Harvey was half as smart as his father,
know that he could find that nest"
Again and again came the exultant
cackle, and again and again we were with
out custards
And SO one mellow autumn day, we
wandered through the garden and strolled
into the barn. IL was not so full but that
it had the sense OF great space. II was
festooned with cobwebs, and had all the
tribee of spiders that hide in half lights.
We climbed the beams, We jumped down
from fsr up on the hay, and finally, after
sundry amusements, lay down by the side
where the shrunk boards gave as sn in
spection crack, from which we swept the
neighborhood-saw and were unseen.
Soon We heard tia lea st possible sount OF
loot on the hay. Turning our head we
beheld the productive but Improbable
hen stealing toward her secret nest. 1t
was the one time too often. We knew as
much as she did.
How rapscious are oil conquerorsl |
There was the rounded nest, well sunk in
corner, full. brimi1l OF eggs-thirteen.
besides one for q nest egg! AS oriental
kings despoil captured city, rob its
people, pull down their choice architec.
lure and quite discrown its beauty, SO we
found the nest glowing white as marble,
and left it--like hay.
! Is there not q providence for henss Is
there not fate that follows the most OBJ
scure and unmatched violence3
We put the eggs safely in our coat tail
pocket, and walked cautiously. II recalled
q piece of disreputable carelessness on
our fathers part, who once sat down On
dozen eggs, and went up as If every egg
was bomb, and every bomb in explosion.
But then he was VIGOROUSLY absent
minded man. His very example was our
safety. And yet we dwelt, with some in
ward mirth, as we walked 10 the house,
on the ludicrous figure which our father
cut. Dinner was. spread as we came in.
Some question came up which diverted
our thought from the discovery Of the
nest-indeed we forgot that we had eggs
about US, and drew TO the table and sat
down with an alscrity which was only
equalled by the spring with which we got
up.
'"Gracious
"Why, what IL the mattcr."
"MStter enough"
"Are you sicky Do let"
Idrew my hand from my pocket stream.
ing with liquid chicken, never TO be born,
and the disgusting secret was out That
woman was saint My pockets were
duly cleansed, without one cutting word.
can imagine the process, but never like
to dwell upon il. Would you believe 1t,
the same thing happened In few weeks
again 1t did, and TO the same person
But never since then, no, never From
that day TO this we do not remember ever
to have even taken an egg from nest.
1. When see man who allows him
self TO be pulled up and fattered, / know
that his time will come when he will cit
down on those eggs.
2. When l see men who are robbing,
right and left, and filling their pockets
with unlawful wealth which other men
earned, / say, "You will sit down on
those eggs yet"
Q. When over cunning men think that
they can outwit ell their fellows, and are
exulting Ut the success which their
shrewcncss has achieved, cay to myself,
"Fill your pocketsi BY and by you will
sit down on those eggs."-N r. Ledger.
A Thousand Years lpO.