The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-02-25
ESSAYS IN NATURAL HISTORY.
By Little Johnny.

By Little Johnny.
| THE RHISocERos.
Bet you don't kno wOt lamy is, cos
Is from South America, where nob0d
goes, but maybe there is one in the Zoc
/ don't kno. 1t is some like sheep ant
some like a camel and carries things an,
that is all know about lamy, whicl
issent lame, anyhow, but is jes callet
that, but when it comes to rinoceroses,
can tell you lot about them fellers.
When my uncle Ned tole me one da,
wy did dent / rite about the unicorn,
said wude and set down and rote abou
its one horn and how it was foun in Africi
and how it fot lions and all about it, bu
wen / come to its tail / said it did have
a tossel. Uncle Ned said Johne, nov
you've got to the end wy don't you stop
Then he tole me not to bother him, bu
look in books, and wen / had look o
thru some books about animel cuddent
fine any unicorn, so he said it was only 9
rinocers, and you never see sech fewri
GUS boy as / was! l got picter of 8
unicorn and picter of a rinocerus anG
shode 'em, and said did he think l was
fool. Uncle Ned he lookt at the two pic
ters careful, and after a vile he had tc
confes they wasent the same. But he said
Johnny, if you was an artist with lite
and graceful fancy sech a thing as the
rinoceros was a sitting to you for his pic
ter, wuddent you be tempted to fattel
him Jest the least bit in the worl by a
few delicate touches here and there
/ said yes, but don't kno wot he ment
The rinoceros fites with elephance
wich it Ifs on its horn and makes 'em
sick. A book wich l have says wen one
has ephalent on its nose the ephalents
tat gifts on the rinocerOsses eyes and puts
EN- out, but if / had trunk and two big
tuskses you wouldn't cetch me ftin
with fat, and furnishing it myself.
In Africa the niggers some times set
their houses on posts to keep the snaiks
out, and one day niger which had his
house that way was setting on the fore
a playin cards with other nigger, and a
rinoceros wich had gone under the house
stuck his horn thru the fore between the
two niggers, and wen it come up one mig
ger he said wots that? But the other
which had jes plade card was looking
in his hand and diddent see the horn, so he
said you kno vel enuf wot it is, have you
got anything to take it with, that's the
question. Then the other nigger said no
he diddent think he had, les he plade a
trump-he sposed wen horn was plade
he OF to trump. But he diddent cos the
house was upset fore he cude make up
his mind.
THE CROCKY DILE.
Ally CATERS is jus the same thing only
livin under other form of government,
for the diles is mostly Egit'uns, but the
CATERS like America the best, were there
aint any queen, wichfol American thinks
sets on throne and cuts fokses head of,
and these animels bleeves they has got
nice heads like Shakes pear. But he
diddent have notches in his back like a
saw. These notches is wy the diles and
CATERS is called sawrians. Some crocky
diles is as long as this room and one wich
was in Injy was see by my Uncle Ned a
comm right towards him, and he said it
was so long it reminded him of the road
leadin to the fort were the sojers was.
Another time, while Uncle Ned was in
a swomp there was big die which come
to him as tame as a ole COW. / asst him
did he tri to cetch it for the Zoo, and he
said it was Jest the other way and when
l said wy diddent he cetch it, he said he
new he OF, but the fack was he see it was
a going his way, and he diddent bleeve
in compulsin foxes which was goin rite
in the long run.
Crocky diles has got skins which is so
thick that nothing can't hurt EN-. Once
they was dog see one lynn down, and
the dog run up and bit real hard, and got
away as quick as it cude, about mile,
and wen it lookt back the die haddent
moove. Then the dog it went back and
took other bite, and the die rolled over
on its side and yond and shet its eye
like it said | was up late last mite must
tri to git some sleep, or shant be fit tor
work. Then the dog, seein it diddent
mine it, went to its tale and lay dowp,
too, not to sleep but to chew the pint Of
diles tale. When it had chude an hour
the die it begun to snore, and then the
dog, which had almost wore itself out a
chuin. got up and shook his head very
sad like sayin poor feller, it must be
awfle tut, but | aint got no time to stop,
let him 60 to the ospital.
Such big mouths nobody ever seed.
A man which wanted to cude sit down in
crocky diles mouth and read the Stand
ard.
They was crocky die swimmin up
a creek, and it saw horse more than a
mile away on hill, and knew it cuddent
have the horse, but it cuddent help
throin open its mouth every time
it see the horse, and when ever it
opened its mouth the water oil run in
it, and there was sent any to swim i'm,
so it stuck fas on the bottom. At las il
got out on the bank and workt, and said
it never see sech times as the world was
come to wen gentlem cuddent take a
quiet swim without being annoid by up.
start horses, which OF to know their
place and keep it. l spose he was con.
servatif die, that's wOt / think.