The Grange advance., 1874-09-16


brother in his trial, but cheer him.
Give him a word that shall urge him on
the way, and if you can't help him in
any other way, give him cheer.
The FATE OF Y0uA6 cAuBB.
When Mr.. Chubb, the elder, returned
from Europe, he brought with him
from Geneva miniature music box,
long and very narrow, and altogether Of
hardly greater dimensions, say than
large pocket-knife The instrument
played four cheerful little tunes for the
benefit of the Chubb family, and they
enjoyed it. Young Henry Chubb en-
joyed it to such an extent that, one
day, just after the machine had been
wound up ready for action, he got to
sucking the end of it, and in moment
of inadvertence it slipped, and he swal-
lowed it. The only immediate conse-
quencc Of the accident was that har-
monic stomach-ache was organized up
on the interior of Henry Chubb, and he
experienced restlessness which he well
knew would defy peppermint and pare
goric. Henry Chubb kept his secret in
his own soul, and in his stomach also,
determined to hide his misery from his
father, and spare the rod to the spoiled
child-spoiled, at any rate, as far as
his digestive apparatus was concerned.
But that evening, at the supper ta-
bic, Henry had eaten but one mouth
full of bread when strains of wild mys-
tcrious music were suddenly waited
from under the table. The family i'm
mediately made an effort to discover
whence the sounds came, although Hen
ry Chubb sat there filled with agony
and remorse, and bread and tunes, and
desperately asserted his belief that the
music CAME from the cellar, where the
servant girl was concealed with harp.
He we'll knew that Mary Ann was un-
familiar with the harp. But he was
frantic to hide his guilt. Thus it is that
one crime leads to another. But he
could not disguise the truth forever,
and that very night while the family
was at prayers, Henry all at once be-
gan to hiccough, and the music started
off without warning with 'Way down
the Swanee River,' with variations.
Whereupon the paternal Chubb rose
from his knees and grasped Henry
kindly but firmly by the hair, and
shook him up and inquired what he
meant by such conduct. And Henry
asserted that he was practising some
thing for Sunday school celebration,
which old Chubb intimated was singu.
larly thin explanation. Then they
tried to get up that music box, and
every time they would seize Henry by
the legs and shake him over the sofa
cushion, or would pour some fresh var
iety of emetic down his throat, the in
strument within would give a fresh
squirt, and joyously grind out s'Listen
to the Mocking Bird, or "Thou'l New.
or Cease to Love- At last they were
compelled to permit that musical box
to remain within the sepulchral recesses
of young Chubb.
| To say that the unfortunate victim of
the disaster was made miserable by his
condition would be to express in the
feeblest n amer the state Of his mind.
The more music there was in his stom-
ach, the wilder and more completely
chaotic became the discord in his soul.
As likely as not it would
occur that while he lay asleep in the
middle of the night the works would
begin to revolve, and would play
''Home, Sweet Home" for two or three
hours, unless the peg happened to slip.
when the cylinder would switch back
again to SWAY down upon. the Swanee
River" and would rattle oAt that tune
with variations and fragments of the
scales until Henry's brother would
kick him out of bed in wild despair,
and sit on him in vain effort to sub.
due the serenade, which, however, in:
variably proceeded with fresh vigor
when subjected to unusual pressure.
And when Henry Chubb went to church,
it frequently occurred that, in the very
midst Of the most solemn portion 81
the sermon, he 0uld feel a gentle dis.
turbance under lower button of his
jacket; and presently, when every.
thing was hushed, the undigested
engine would give q preliminary buzz
and then reel off ssListen to the
Mocking Bird and ''Thou'lt Never
Cease to Love- and scales
AMI exercises, until the clergyman
would stop and glare at Henry over
MS spectacles, and whisper to one of
the deacons. Then the sexton would
suddenly tack up the aisle and clutch
the unhappy Mr.. Chubb by the collar
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