Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-01

The bat IL winged mouse.
They live very retired during the day,
but at mite cum out for frolik.
They iii very mutch unsartain, and
ackt as tho they had taken leetle toe
mutch gin. Nc N .PltB
They look out ov their face like a
young owl, and will bite ike snappin
What they are good for l kant tell,
and don't believe they kan tell neither.
They don't seem to be bird, beast nor
insek but a kind ov live hash made
out ov all three
If thare want eRny bats in the world, i
don't suppose the earth would refuse tew
revolve on its axis, once in while, jlst
for fun p
But when we cum to think that thare
amt on the face of the earth even one
bat too match, and that thare haint been
since the daze of Adam. a single surpluss
muskeeters egg laid by acksident, we
kan form sum kind of an idee how little
we know, and what poor job we should
make oY it runnin the mashinery of
kreashun.
Man IL phooi ennyhow, and the best
ov the joke is he don't seem tew kno it.
Bats have destiny tew ell, and | will
bet 4 dollars they fillit better than we do
ours.
THE HAWK,
Bats liv on flies, and hawks live on
bats, but who livs on the hawk l kant
tell.
Billed hawk may be very good; l never
herd emmy boldly say it wasn't, but
don't hope shall ever be called upon to
decide it.
Tew save life would eat billed hawk,
but if it tastes asi think it duz wouldn't
ask for q second plate ov it. d
The hawk is karniverous fowl, and a
chickiniyerous one, too, every good
chance he kan git.
1 have seen them shut up their wings
and drop doun out of the sky like
destroying angel, and pick up young
gosiin in each hand, and sore aloft again
pretty quick. .I
They bid their nests out of the rea ch
ov civilization, so that no missionary can
git to them, unless be can klimb well
Powder and double B shot IL the only |
thing that will civilize a hawk clear
through, so that he will stay so, and it |
takes a big charge ov this, too.
| have fired a double-barrelled gun
into them, loaded with fne shot, and it
had the same exilirating efiekt on them
that four quartz ov oats would have on
an old boss; it made them more lively
for few minnits
hev seen ded hawks, but inever
Shed emmy tears over them.
don't suppose that even hen hawks
are made in vain, but hav wondered il
just enuff ov them tew preserve an as
sortment wouldn't answer.
THE NEDDo MOLE.
The meddo mole il either a small rat
or big mouse, i don't kno which.
They hav soft silken fur, and dig in
the ground for living.
They kan bore hole in the ground
fazter thaa a Pinch sugur can, and kan
travel klear akrost l0-aker lot in one
night, and never cum once tew the sur
face.
They don't hav emmy eyes. but see with
their ears, and kan see more without
seeing ennything than emmy rat in Emer-
ika. 0.a|ll .l
How a meddo mole kan see with their
ears IL one Of naturs mysterys, and
nstHrluFs nysterys; it IL the mysterys
ov natur that makes mankind respeckt-
ful.
If natur showed all the kards she held /
in her hand most ennybody would think
ihey could beat her. ....
But natur makes us guess at about
one-half we know, and then laffs at US,
IN her sleeve, bekauce we don't git i
right.
] dent kno whether meddo moles are
ln accredited Artikle oy diet or not II
never seen their names registered on