Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-06

IOHNNY'S COMPOSITIONS.
Juvenile wisdom-The Cote, the Hy.
ena and the Zebry.
GOTES.

There is nandigotes and billigotes,
and the little young ones is kid.
Gotes is good to give milk, and they
will pull four-wheeler if it's made to
their measure. Wen q cote has been
tot to ware saddle and be rode by a
monkey it thinks hisself better than
the others, and stomps its feet like it
wasent satisfide not to be hevvier on
the groun.. fs.4a.
Wen we was movin out of the other
house to this un, Billy had took big
lookin glass to the truck and leaned it
agin the weel vile he handed upsome-
thin els, and Will noboddy was look
IN q big he cote come up and saw his
self i'm the glass, and that was more
than he would stan, SO he backed auf
and took a run and jump with his
he'd down. The glas was bust all to
pieces, and the cote was cot between
the spokes of the weel and hel fks.
Wen it was TUX out it ran roun to the
other side of the truck and loOkt acros
the fie!s, and shook its he'd like he was
sayin, you got away this time, but you
wuddent if it wasent for the Wagon
bein in the way, and you better not
let me ketch you in these parts agin,
mister.
Gotes has beerds. but if l was cote
Ide shave, cos | think beerls and no
mustatch looks jest sick. They chew
cuds like cows, which issent nice
thing to do, they may say what they
like. The kind of cote skin my
mother keeps for clenin the silverwith
is shammv, but if L was her Ide have
the real if it cud be got. si goa
.~ THE HYENA.
l don't like this beast bit, nor the
way it gifts its livin, if wot they say is
true. E 7i- 'f#h
One day ole Docktor Bolus was to
our house, and he and uncle Ned was
a talkin about Injia, where they both
lived, uncle Ned sojeriDg and the
docktor was sergen, like he is here.
Wen they spoke of hyenas the doctor
said that one dark night he was in the
cemetery In Injia, standin by new
made grave with two friends and they
herd feet steps and hid themselves to
see who it was. But it was a hyena,
and it come there and begun to dig
just think of that! The doctor said he
was never so Mortified and disgusted
in all his life; and he crep up behind
it an kilk it. Uncle Ned said docktor
wat did you xii him with? and then
the docktOr said spade. Then uncle
Ned he said how fortunate it was you
brot spade, and laft; but was so
frightened that wen the docktor sed,
Johnny fetch my hat and stick, for he
mus be goin, l wuddent leav the room
to git EN-. he
TO sho you wot a goose my sister is,
wen she an me and father was to the
menagerie we see the tiger and about
a half hour after, wen we cum to the
zebry, and l wanted to stop she said
oh, come along you tejus boy, we see
him before. Now wat is such girl
good fur is wat I want to kno.
In the pictur alphabet, the zebry is
always last; but if L made it Id have
him first, cos hes nicer than apple or
ape. 3h @z.a
Once was to show were they had
vile animals. 1t was about to begin,
but I and some other boys was outside
the tent, tryin to peep under, and l
heard man say, jim, have you walk
ed up the lion? and another man said
he had. And you have curried the
Royal Bengal tiger? The other man
said he done that too. Then the he'd
Snowman sed rub up the dedly crobry,
and wen the ferocious gerily gifts down
paintin them zebrys you help him in
to his skin The wild zebry is said to
be the swiffest of all animals, but I
don't see how any boldly could mesure
of the groun and 'em. Ide back Apol-
Ogy agin the best zebry on the turf,
for its jus my belief that speed issent
wot they runs to. Ide ast my sisters
yung man, only he don't come to our
house no more, cos wen he was here
last week he said he didn't like dogs,
and my sister she say nobody wich
dident like dogs wasent nice, that's
wot they was. Then he said he new
wot made her like 'em, and that was
cos Mister CHUNKY Perkins was so
good as to wok home with her from
church. Wen he said that you never
see such a angry girl. She said if you
dare to tok that way about my
friends you better not, and went out
of the room. Then he laft little,
and wished a little, and stroke the cat
q bit, and said was I gittin on with
my animals, and got up to look at q
pictur, and tutched the pianner and
asst If uncle Ned that 1t was Nancy
Sahib, and walked out in the yard,
and was impressed in comparin the
evergreens along the wok, which are
all alike. 5@iI i1eE
Then my sister she cum back in the
room and went to the windo, and stud
there all the vile he was in site, a
peepsng threw the curtin. Then wen
l said wondered if zebrys was striped
a like on both sides, dident she jus
come and Civ me me a jolly good wig
gin! But it was fun to see her cryin
insted of me. .'itH -.