The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-07-01
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HAL AND H0OKY.

"Then stay out" replied the father "you
shall mind me in some way"
Queer ''family government" that, thought.
And yet which was worse-for the man 10
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, il limo
cent and natural to wage war with them
There, for example is our perpetual motion,
Hal, Gripping beetles, mangllng butterflies,
stealing eggs from birds nests, washing his
sisters pet dolls face in moasses, emerging
penitently from one nis2dyCut0cc - plunge
directly into another. What >,onM we do
with the mischievous scape grace This Was
& serious question TO him and to Us, Tor he
certainly was sorry to veX Us, and we disliked
ever to be reproying and restraining him. l
hit on a plan, after some philosephic head
scratching, that worked so well that cannot
forbear sketching it FOR the edifcation Of men
and boys placed in similar predcament.
Proyindin. Hdi pole of right length, Il hoop
and muslin | set him to work on 4 butterfly
net and, taking It half holiday, steered for the
groves and prairies viol of ether in peck
ct, and tin box for insects, to hunt Speci-
mems with him. All how happy we were,
dashing away after q flying flower" careful
~ selecting one from a nest OF eggs, that the
mother-bird might not be discouraged, capt
uring bugs, admiring the gayly blooming
,,sos r. or|'+,,., o,,.,n1 nc ,n;rnI;nr omnco.
ments and instruction.
wh;Io nrnss;n., ,,;ona ~ enc,nsed nra;r;a
FroD, ,nO 1I .5,o ~ ,round third of mile
of ON Ana7onian fs7,oln ns;nu her horny
honls Cor l;r,, +rrmnnt sRrllv shout.
cd
eo,,, -. ooor. a;r
Gc,d ~ >''"' W. - "'' 'O'>' N''0'' 'D'' '''
W. afterwards ,earnod that sbe was lately
from thr cnst that there We're front in the
strrom rrnninc thronoh her land and that
she snrnn.nG 7ba, lI|a not was - he uSed in
catchIn rrf fish, ''''' VIZ NV " g." w ~ '0'V'
Nv the closn If +,,o s,asno Hal had in his
cabinet bundreds If insects NOT to sneak of
lizards and al,c..---tbc lottcr preserved in
alcohol-c,ncerpinu III Of which he could
discourse with more s5o,r Of lcarnipc than
A~ossiy b;n,.nlf
And Jal Soon he'd rIentv Of boln-such ~,
it was He was so stlf-jmportant and enthu-
sjast,c, and en-, such Grand flourish collect.
mo snecimeo," and Narnlino Latin names
thot the rumor Of In, deeds and esnecinllv Of
his words snrp,d wildly amnng the settler,
And often would n half basht0i Girl or boy
surrounded hy = hoyy If children, knock 1T
our door, with = bi,irn. souirnino stinyIny,
writhirr object. IN arron or chubby fist, and
saw
II brouoht :, buo f,, q Won. 7 didri
Which Hal wo1ld receive gr,ciou,)v and
profoundly.
But was 10 tell Won about liooky.
Sand Hal orr d,T
@,Fa,npr wouldn't Won like a Bat for onr
collection can got one to-ni.ht at the
sawmjn."
So iu,t alter (which, nv br,ghtryeJ NAT.
uralist aDrg.yel. caII in nand' which. when
uncovered. discovered thirteen bats. Twelve
We're dead. one was l,yIp,. but bn,; u brok.u
wing.
"Jolly wasn't il Cony' said Hal. Il uu,
nv net over fine lo,e where they lived. and
when one few into II. dashed him uppn the
locr, and ,h.n the net Tor another They
s,nf,'.r in, Ike mice
"but Wasn't il ,r,,el to kin so mauy?'
asked
.Ob.n eXulainpd he sit was nearly dark.
and tbopTht they mioht he different kinds y
But they were rot. SO eleven were buried
Gin one Grave" the twelfth was skinned. and
BroErn.wino saved ,o net
"Uow shaIl we ,ome him ., ssid Hal
.Tj.rg .~vn I sII,ro~sleI ,.,hnt i, von
,ro,IG ,,.,r @ ,.,,, .snnt n,tpred v,r r,u.t
do # fbrorob thr stomach nerhans Bat can
he won by thr same means But what shall
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