The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-04-10

When Il boy on a sled slides downhill on
the snow and goes clear through a renee,
that's gravity; but when the sled has to 60
up hill again that's the boys muscle which
pulls it by rope. Gravity only travels one
way on sled,
If you will stick a pin through humble
bee in the window sill, it will buzz on with
its cheerful music all the same like 1t was
outdoors over flower; but ii you will pinch
your small brother when he won't mind you,
then, maybe, you had better go out and split
some wooo, or something, and whistle care
less.
They say there is Electricity in cats back :;
but il you will rub a strange yellow one long
enough to try to find 1t, may be you had bet
ter let the Electricity went Any way, that's
my advice to children
If all the forest trees would grow crooked
and with hard knots in, then your lather
would have to hire man to split the wood;
but there wouldn't be So many pine RATS to
vim on the outside off in summer, and you
would have TO carry IN more coal IN winter,
and so it would be about even.
When you go off fishing and bring home
only long string of small clubs, if you ask
your mother to 1t you cook EN-, there will
be dreadful fuss. But when she has got
company for tea, then | wish you would
please listen to hear her make bigger fuss
when your father torgets to bring home bot
tie of sardines. That's curious way.
If a sweet potato grows in the ground with
the sugar already in, then what's the reason
that an Irish potato don't grow already
sailed?
The best way for certain to find out if ice
will bear you, is to coax bigger boy to go
on first, and then lend him your skates when
YOU have got to go home before dark.
If Mr.. General George Washington did al
most ruin cherry tree with sharp Ratchet,
he had the sand TO own it up TO his father
when he was small boy; but i would like
to see some Louisville hair pins owa-days
as would do it.
You can go to the MINISTRIES halEprice for
% cents if you have the quarter, but there
has been a Grassland concert from Boston,
at Public Library Hall, which it took fifty
dollars to buy ticket and GO in. Minstrels
is good enough for me, and so I'd rather
save up the rest of my money when / get it,
and buy steamboat and locomotive.
A school teacher will stick to it that water
always runs down hill; but then what is the
reason that sugar water will run up tree
It's sure fact that if you feed a small
black and tan pup on whisky he won't grow
any bigger, because tried it with a spoon
on my Coly, and he died.
When you go to bed and dream tranquil
that you have got a new pair of boots with
square box-toes and red tops, and then have
to put on your old shoes when you get up in
the morning, 1t will dsappoint you so rough
as TO make you miserable and nearly sick.
A small piece OF round cork dipped in the
black ink, with some horse.hair legs on, and
the whole business tied TO a fine spread, is
good deal enough dead spider to drop down
quiet and easy before boys nose which is
smaller than you and timid.
There was boy who was poet named
Jim johnson, but he's dead, because they
say that poets most usually die when they
are small When they had prayers one morn
ing in school a mouse ran up the bell rope,
and Jim made some poetry SO loud that the
teacher heard him. This was the first verse:
There was amouse in time of prayers,
Went up the rope for want of stairs.
Here the teacher got mad and told him that
she would trounse him few if he didn't get
another worse, and 50 he SAID;
Here stand before Miss Blodget,
And when she strikes I'm going to dodge it.
And 50 Jim go, of with Il whole skin and
was thankful, Ben SPINNER.