The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-07-01
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HAL AND H0oKY.

won " was the uutsful reJolucT.
'Then stay out" replied the father; ''you
shall mind me in some way"
Queer 'famiy government that thought.
And yet which was worse-for the man to
lay upon the child an unreasonable command
or to be weak in enforcing his authority
Nature was drawing the boy from the dark,
confined, unsightly loggery into the whole
some air and bright sunshine why, then, try
to keep him in doors Is it not safer and
wiser to direct childish tastes, than, If inno-
cent and natural, to wage war with them
There, for example is our perpetual motion,
Hal crippling beetles, manglng butterflies,
stealing eggs from birds nests, washing his
sisters pet dolls face in molasses, emerging
penitently from one nis2dycntucc 10 plunge
directly into another. What >i0n& we do
with the mischievous scape grace This was
serious question to him and to Us, FOR he
certainly was sorry to veX Us, and we disliked
ever to be reproving and restraining him. l
hit on plan, after some philOSephic head
scratching, that worked so well that cannot
forbear sketching it for the edifcaton OF men
and boys placed in similar predicament.
Providing Hal y pole of right length, hoop
and muslin, | set him to work on Il butterfly
net, and, taking halt holiday, steered for the
groves and prairies, a vol of ether in pock-
ct, and a tin box for insects, to hunt speci
mems with him. All, how happy we were,
dashing away after flying flower" careful
~ selecting one from n nest OF eggs, that the
mother-bird might not be discouraged, capt
uring bugs, admirng the gay!y blooming
wild plants, crnyersing on the wonders and
uses Of creation around US mingling amuse-
mentS and instruction.
We met with one rebuff that afternoon
While crossing a piece of enclosed prairie,
from gentle swell OF ground third OF a mile
oil, an Ammonium female, using her horny
hands for a speaking trumpet, shrllly shout
cd
''Git caout that air field git eaout that air
field ~
We afterwards learned that she was lately
from the east, that there were trout in the
stream running through her land, and that
she supposed that the net was te be used in
catching fish.
BY the close Of the season, Hal had in his
cabinet hundreds Of insects, not to speak of
lizards and snakcs,--thc latter preserved in
alcOhol-c9ncerning all OF which he could
discourse with more shoe of learning than
AGassiZ himself.
And Hal soon had plenty Of hclp--such rs
It was He was so selt-inportant and enthu
Slasllc, and cut such grand flourish collect
ing specimens and paraling Latin names,
that the rumor OF his deeds, aud especially of
his words, spread wildly among the settlers
And often would IL bait bashtui girl or boy,
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