The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-08-10
ATRUE STORY.

ning down hlll. 1t Is laf CASTER " ioh
down bill than it is to run up.
The pipe enters this spring, not at the
top of the water, nor at the bottom either.
If it were at the top, the scum would get
into the pipe and u floating bug now and
then. fit were at the bottom, dregs and 1
sediment wouh get in. so the pipe goes
in about six inches below the top Of the !
water.
When we are drawing water at the barn
for the horses, and my neighbor draws wa
ter at the same time for her washing day,
the pipe sucks at a great rate But 1t
draws in nothing but pure water, If all
floating things keep at the top, and all heavy
things lie still at the bottom. Now for my
story.
One morning there was gay young frog
about as big as half my thumb-too big for
tadpole, too small for wise frog. lie
could 90 just where he pleased lie did
not have to float with the bugs, for he
knew how to dive. He did not have to
stay at the bottom with the dregs, for ne
knew how to swim. So he kicked out his
little hind legs and swan all around the
spring, doing very much as he pleased.
One day he saw the little round black
hole of the pipe, where the water was run
ming in quite freely. lie wondered where
it led to. Tie put his nose in. and felt the
water pull, and was little scared and back
! ed out. But it was such funny feeling TO
| be sucked that way; it felt kind of good
around his nose, and he swan up and look
cd in again. lie went in as much as half
an inch and then the water got behind
him and he was drawn all in. Here goesr'
said he, II shall see uhdt I shall seer
And along he went with the water, till he
came to where the pipe makes bend for
my barn-a sharp bend, straight up. As
the water was quiet there, he gave little
kick and got up into a still, dark place,
| close by the barrel where the horse drinks.
"Well'' says he, cts snug place here,
but rather lonely and dark"
Now and then he thought ST the spring
and the light, and the splendid room he
used to have to swim in, and he triod to
swim back against the stream but the wa
| ter was on him, or running by him swiftly,
and he had no room to kick in the pipe.
SO every time he started to go back to the
| spring he would work hard for u few min
utcs, and then get tired and slip back into
the dark place by the barrel.
BY and by he grew contentcd there.
The water brought him enough to cat.
He shut his eyes and grew stupid, stopped
exercising and got fat, and as he had DO
room to grow very big in the pipe, he had
to grow all long, and no broad. But he
| grew as big as he could, till at last he stop
| ped up the pipe.
Then | had to 80 out and see what was
the matter, for the horse had nothing to
drink. | jerked away the barrel, pulled
out the plug and put a ramrod down; felt
sprmgy, leathcry, something and push
ny down it went, and out gushcd the wa
| ter. "Hhat mas that - l thought. SO
pulled out the big plug and put down an
iron ram rod and churned it two or three
times and then let the water run, and out
camo a great long, rcd and white, and
bleeding frog.
couldn't put him together again. Any
thing that gets sucked into that pipe and
grows up in those dark places, has to come
out dead and all in pieces. l wondered
how such o big frog could ever have got
! into SO smalla pipe. Then a wise lady in
my house told me- "Why, he vent in when
he was little and foolish, and grow up in
there ~ s-4 sairas-1T 7
cannot got that poor frog out of my
mind. lie was Ike SEINE young folks that
| have seen. They frolicked up to the
door of theatre, or they stood and looked /!
into the door Of bar room, or they just /
wanted to go to one ball, or go out behind |,
the barn to smoke a pipe, or went off sleigh |
ing with some gay young man without
asking lcave-or some way put their fool (
ish noses into dark hole that felt funny |
and led, they didn't know where. Pretty |
soon, in they 90. When they want to go |
back they can't and they grow bigger and !
wickcder, and all out of shape in that dark |
place. If they come out at last, they are |.
all iammed up, knocked to pieces, sick, or |
dying, or dead, When | see them in their |
Collins, | hear folks ask, GLOW came lie |
70 throw himself away ?" "What made |
him drink himself to death?" Glow hap
pened she to go off to infamy p GLOW |
came he to be gambler ?"
Then l shall answer as the wise old lady
told me about the frog. "They went in
when they were little and foolish, and grew
up there" A bad habit hugs man tight
cr, and jams him out of s!lapc worse than
my pipes did that poor frog
4 WORD TO YoUSG MEN.-We take
the following from an exchange:
cone of the meanest things young man
can do is to monopolize the time and at
tention of a young lady for a year
/ or more without any definite object
and to the exclusion of other gentle
men, who, supposins him to have
matrimonial intentions, absent themselves
from her society The selfish "dog-in-thc-
munger way of proceedings should be dis
ecuntenanced by all parents and guardians
1t prevents the reception of eligible offers of
marriage and fastens upon the young lady,
when the acquaintance is finally dissolved,
the unmcrited appelation of ''firt." Let
your actions with women. Young man, be
frank, honest and noble. That many, when
education and position in life would warrant
our looking for better things, are eul pably
criminal un those points, is no excuse for
vopr shortcomings. That woman Is often
/ injured or wronged, through her hottest
feelings. adds but hlacker dive to your
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