Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-08-14

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When get my team
But when quiet night came,
'- ho6eie b prayers were 'said, 1850
And he looked at baby
In her little bed;
And he said, when baby
Smiled In some sweet dream,
"She's wurf forty horses,
- Stead OF Jess teaml"
Baby's wee pink fingers
=. kound his own he curled
80. She's wurf all the horses
In dig whole big yorld!" +, !.-
80 -CAristian Union.
And tho comet eame, With luminou
head, and thsestening his, fery7 tail
It was gA.ed u from palace 70 cot.. b,
the crowd upon the street and th'
lonely vanderer over tho pathles
heath and each ct all the Razers lat
his own thoughts about. it. "Com,
and see the sign in the sky |" wer,
words on the lips of ALL and all hast
ened to see.
But in tho house q little boy wa.
sitting quietly with his mother th,
tallow~- candle was burnins;s and Tia
mother thought abe perceived ! 8 shav
ing" in the light. The tallow hat
raised in q point, and formed q curl
which, . abe Thought aigni6ed; tha
heh 6td6 by would soon die, for tn,
shaving turned toward him. , II was al
old superstition, and she believed il
But the little boy was to live IMAM,
YeaFs upon tho earth-live and see tn,
comet when, after more than sixty
years, it should re.appear.y :.
The little boy did not see the ome1
in the light, nor did he think of the
comet which nov, for, the first time il
hi6Mes was aiming from heaven. III
was sitting with . mended bowl con
tanning soap-suds, into which he wa.
dipping the head Of q clay pipe, ther
putting tho stem to his mouth and
blowing off bubbles. little and biz,
tke3 N1ivsfand eoaled in most beauti
ial colors, changing from yellow to red,
lilac end: blue, and then becoming
green, like the forest leaf, transparent
in the sunlight. 49,, :,
God grant you years upon earth a,
numerous. al the soap-bubbles' YOU
hl9Nln' said his mother. .! -; = -,
$50 manyl 80 :manyl" said the lit
tie boy. 1.-THE suds can never be Blow
up!" and the little one blew bubble
aftes hubble. There :koes & year
See how they fly" said he az eact
bubble Aoated away. a couple Of then
went directly. into his eyes, eiviue them
pasd bringing tears. II eac6 bnb.
BILE he had vision Of the future, shin
SWs can ,see the comet !" called The
neighbora. "Oh, come out; don't I'll
in therel" "
And the mother took the little on,
~ the hand; he had to lay away th.
pipe. the s0ap-bubble toy; the come
was theirs, and the little one saw: tba
shining ball with the fiery tail. Som
said It seemed to be three Yards. Iona
Others that 1t was millions of vards
people see differently:
"Childpn aud children's childraru
m4ybe dead before Il comes again. ;,
saiaehe people; and the most 81 thor
whoieai6itSWere dead and zone When
1t came again. But the little bow. for
whom tho shaving stood in the c:ndle.
and conserving whom the mothar
Thought, " he will soon die I" vet ,Vaa
old and vhite-haired. The old .alasa
says that 6 white hair il tho blossoes
OF old agel" and with him tho blos,
SON was profuse he was now IN old
ol-master. His pupils spoke Of
nm as wise, knowing 80 much of his
tory, geography and astronomy.
"Au things return" he said; "onlv
SET your mark upon characters and
transactions, and you win slwavs finil
the same again, in some other dress.
some other country"
And the school-lnaster told them of
William Tell, who Vas Compelled "a
SHOOT IN apple from the head of his
son but, before shooting, had con-
cealed upon his breast another arrow
with which to pierce the breast Of the
wicked Gesler. In Switzerland this
occurred, but many years before the
same transpired in Denmark with Pal
natoke. He. too, was compelled to
shoot an apple from the head Of his
son, and, like Tell, concealed mn arrow
with which to take revenge; and. firth.
er back, more than q thousand wear.
the same event is recorded AZ hav;no
transpired in Egypt; the same events
fe-aPpear as do the comets; they dis
appear, remain a while away, and then
And he. told of the comet, now ex.
pected, the comet which he had aeon
when he was little boy. The school,
master knew much about the heavenly
bodies, meditated upon them. and vet
DID not forget history and GEOGRAPHY.
He had laid out his garden I'M tie
shape of the map of Denmark. Herr
herbs and flowers were arranged ec
cordlng to the adaptation of soil in dif-
1erent parts OF the country. bring
me peas !" he said, and these were
brought from tho bed that represented
Holland. Bring me buckvheat !"
u; and this was brought from Lanoaland.
The beautiful blue gentian and sweat.
willow were to be found up at Skaoen.
the glossy Christhorn over at S;lka'
borg The towns were sianified h.
emh!ems. Here was st. Canute viii
the dragon, signifying Odense: Ahsolon
with bishops staff sionifv;no So.n
and a little vessel with oars 7Aoror'
s1en1ned Aarhus. From the. school
masters garden one could learn omit
well the geography of Denmark, but Of
course h. must be instructed bv the
which was so aoreeabla
The comet was expected. and con-
corning it he told what people NJ oid
lay, when it was last here. had ss;s
- Ihe comet is a good wine wear h.
'ald; "water may be mixed with Il
Without being perceptible w.
lealers like comet years. n'
During fourteen days and niphts tho
Ky was clouded, and the comet oh.
'cured; but it. was there. The oi1
was sitting in his cham.
,sr close by tho school. room. TLc |
3ornho!m clock, which had belonood
o his childhood's home, stood in ths
:orner, the leaden weights neither
Using nor falling. the nanIn1no
n "S the little cuckoo, which
''., i1lmeriy come forward cuckooino
acn hour, remained back in its place
iieht all was still there, the clock
'sa ceased to go. But the old piano
,nich nag also pcrtainod to the home
- n's cnlldhood, still possessed life
ne Strings could resonnd, some,
mat hoarsely, the melodies of wholo
uman NE and thereby tho old man
ePt IN mind SO much, both pleasant
nd sad, in the long row of intsrven;mo
ears, since when rs a child he hai
azed upon the comet, until now It was
gain here; he remembered what his
lother had said about the siayines IN