Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-03-11
HEGIRAF.

Girafs Il the longest necks Of al
uther animels. I nsver zee such long
necks ike q steeple, but no bells in il.
1Aere heads is little, too, bat maybe
mot little only for them. Iepose IL We
zee {, girafs head on. cat We would
nay wot . big head Tint cats got, Wy
don't you make Il sho? !? It's like
ephalsnts havin little eyes, but IL :
baby had sem, wot thenf Maybe
girafs heads i littlo Cos they u up al
mo- 1g Of S5ehA liz lnrk3.
Tke Giy,f = ap6tty Ike them lcp-
perds IA the Zoo, wich makes some
fskss <1n sna .camnle kpperds, but
that's rot, cos they amt no more Ike
. cammle than Billy is, and If spots
makes lepperds my sisters new dres is
lepperd, and it amt COS it don't
bite.
Wen q man wich had never see a
giraf was to the Zoo he was passin n
house wich is in the Zoo, and a giraf
wich was on the other side of the house
lookt over the roof at the man. The
man diddent say any thing then, but
went and foun the keeper, and said had
he lost dear, and the keeper said per-
haps he had and perhaps he had
dent, they was all ways hidin their
sells about the grouns. Then the
man said you git me q ladder and
He fine your dear were nobody but me
wud ever think Of lookin for it, but l
was a Zooman myself once, and I kno
wot dears is. So the keeper wich thot
the man was crazy tole him were to fine O
ladder SO he wud goa way, and the
man brot the ladder, and set it again
the house, and went up to fetch down
the dear for he thot he was on the roof
But wen he got on the roof he saw the
graft in the back yard eatin the top
Of tree. Then the man he got down
again, and lugd the ladder back to were
he fohn it, and went to the keeper, wich
was a lookin on. and said l thot if l
wude get real high up maybe could see
ol over the grouns and fine your dear
for you, but if you amt sure you have
loss dear it aint woth vile.
THE OWL.
Wen YOU come to see q owl cloce it
has offie big eyes, and wen you come to
feel it with your fingers, wich it bites,
you find it is mosely fethers, with only
Just meat enuf to hole 'em to gath
er.
Once they was a man thot he wud
like owl for pet, so he tole a bird
man to send him the bes one in the
shop, but when it was brot he lookt ut
it and squeezed it, and it diddent suite.
So the man he rote to the bird man
and said lie keep the owl you sent, tho
it amt like wanted, but wen it is wore
out you mus make me other, with lit
tier eyes, for l spose these eyes is num-
ber twclves, but want number skies,
and then if I pay you the same price
you can afford to put in more owl.
Owls has got to have big eyes COS
they has to be out good deal at mite a
doin bisnis with rats and mice, wich
keeps late ours. They is said to be
very wise, but my sisters young man
he says any boldly cude be wise if
they woud set up mites to take no.
tice
That feller comes to our house Jest
like he use to, only more, and wen 1
asst him WV he come so much he said he
was a man Of Silence, like me and was a
studyin ornithogaly, wich was birds.
l ast him wot birds he was s:uddyin,
and he said anji's, and wen he sail
that my sister she lookt out the winder,
and said wot fine day it had turned
out to be. But it was a rainin cats
and dogs wen she said it. / never see
sech goose in my life as that girl, but
uncle Ned, wich has been in ol parts cf
the worl, he says that they is jest that
way in Pattygony.
In the ricter alphabets the o is some
times owl, and some times it is OK.
but if l made the picters IIe have it
stan for a oggur to bore holes with. I
tole to ole gaffer Peters once wen he
was to our house lookin at my new
book, and he said You is right, Johnny,
and here is this III stans for harp, but
hoo cares for harp, why don't thev
make il stan for a horgan z He is such
a ole fool