The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-22
persuaded to hold the bag while the rest
should drive ur.tha. Rentle snipes. q

persuaueu to nOiu Uue Day Wniio tho heoe
should drive up.ths gentle snipes g.
The boys left Dick with many cautions
about holding the bag close to the waters
edge, and about keeping very still. They
assured him they would bring up the
snireswithin an hour ~ t.tE AN.
Then they scattered, and reunited
again shortly, and went sauntering
homeward, stopping now and then to
laugh at the thought OF Dicks weary
watch at the river. -" - XT -
I When they entered the village they
saw, sitting in the tavern door, figure
which they readily OWNED to be Wash
Tomkins, the topper.
They resolved to stir him up, and have
some additional sport. But what was
there CONSERVATION, on coming up, to
find that itwas none other than Dick
Blain himself, who had run around and
reached the town ahead of them.
g."Got the bag chock full,o he said, as
they came up, 6and / low'd eff l staid
thar tell you fellers come up you'd claim
ali the lsnipe. So I tuck my bag of
snipes home, and come and sot down
here to wait for you. You didn't find
none s'pose likern not . low'd you
wouldn't. l jest whistled Dan Tucker,
and they knowed the toon, and all on 'em
come right in" .rs.-
The seminary boys never took bag to
catch snipes after that.-Ed. Eggleston, in
Youths Companion.
Too MUCR TO BELIEvE.-One day
Farmer Robson's old hen came scratch
ing about in my meadow, and just then
| the pretty schoolma'am tripped by with
two of her children. She was talking
to them about the fish called the stur-
| geon. as
eyes, my dears," she was saying, 81
read it this very morningin the Popular
Science Monthly. Nine hundred and
twenty-ene thousand six hundred eggs
have been found in a single sturgeonP
"My, what lotV exclaimed one of
the children; "and if every egg gets to
be sturgeon, and every one of the new
surgeons lays just as many, just think
what heaps and heaps of grandchildren a
sturgeon must have.o
The teacher laughed. They walked
on, and suddenly l heard sort of gulp.
1t was the old hen. / never in my life
saw any living creature in such state.
She was so mad she could hardly keep in
side of her feathers.
"Nine hundred thousand eggsp she
exclaimed (you would have thought she
4 was only trying to cluck her head off,
but Jack understood every word), "nine
hundred Thousand eg-gug-gug-gegs!
don't believe word of it. Never was
such thing since the world began
sturgeon, indeed! 2 Never even heard Of
such bird. What II school-teachers say
next, / wonder? Nine hundred thou
sand egg-guggug-eggs, indeed!"
:. The last / saw of that hen she was
stratting off Indignantly toward the
barn-yard to tell the other hens all about
it.--"Jack-in.the- Pulpit,"r,& Nicholas.
The following is a summer episode al
evolved by little Johnny " Last summer
our dog Towser was lynn in the sun trint
to sleep, but the flies was that bad he
cuddent, COS he had to cetch 'em, ant
bime by bee lit on his he'd, and was
woking about like the dog was hisn
Towser he hel his he'd still, and when thu
bee was close to his nose Towser winked
at me, like he said you see what thi
duffer is doin'; he thinks I'm lilly o
J the valley which isn't open yet, but you
just wait till. blossom and you'll sc,
some fun, and sure enuf Towser opened
his mouth yer slo so as not to friten tn,
bee, and the bee went into Towser'
mouth. Then Towser he shet his eye
: dreamy like, and his mouth, too, and be
gun to make peaceful smile when tn
, bee stung him, and you never see ill.
: of the valley ack SO in all your life"
: You are the dullest boy l ever saw,
81 n LaI Ja1 al v,aI
| to his nephew.
!, "Well, uncle" replied the youth, will
/. a glance at the old gentleman's bali
: head, "you can't expect me to under
stand things as quick as you do, becaus
you don't have the trouble of getting 'ep
! through your hair"