Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-10-27
kTY, PENNA., OCTOBER 81. 1875.
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The Last Apple.-There it hung, de-
flying all blast and storm. Nothing, it
seems, could wrest it from the parent
limb. The boys going along the road
to school had flung every available
stone or stick at this apple, yet it still
tember sun. 1t had seemingly a
charmed existence. But one fatal day
it was eaten, and this is how it hap
pened:
One afternoon, all the children were
in the kitchen watching mother getting
tea ready, when Harry. the only boy,
looked from the window and seeing
the apple, he thought to himself he
would like it.
Mother, mayn't have the last ap-
\ple. Nobody seems to care for it ~
"Now mother" cried Mary. Il think
1 ought to have it, because / am the
Oldest
II haven't been late to school for a
whole week, so deserve it at least
said Lizzie, triumphantly.
Little Jennie could not say any thing:
she was only the youngest, that was ali.
"Well, Children" said mother, after
something like quiet had been re-
stored, "You Lave all claim ON the
last apple, vet you cannot all have it,
so | will give you chance to guess for
"Good," cried Harry.
81 am thinking of story where an
apple played the principal part now
the one that guesses it shall have the
APPLE
story of William Tell, how he shot the
apple off his sons head.'
"NO, Harry, that's not it."
"MOther, isn't it the old Grecian fa-
BILE of Paris giving the apple Of dis
cord to Venus p
mo, Mary, you are not right
90. it's the fairy tale of the witch
and the golden apple-ain't it!''
"NO. Lizzie, neither are you right
cannot guess.n
81 only know one story with an ap-
pie in it, and that is in the Bible, where
Eve ate one in the garden.
''Jennie has guessed it; the apple is
rightly hers
40, l didn't want it anyway said
Harry as he ran out and threw himself
under the tree but Mary more kindly
sought Grabbed stick in the wood
pile, and giving the apple few smart
raps it fell straight into Jennie's out
held apron. But did she eat it all her
self No, she took the largest knife in
the drawer and cut it into five pieces,
not forgetting mother, and they all sat
or the doorstep, enjoying what Jen-
ME called her "apple-tea- party
And mother smiled as she looked at
the little ones and saw how ill-feeling
had disappeared before Jennie's un-
sefishness, as snow would melt before
an April sun.
School Boy Heroism.-TwO boys were
in a school room alone together, when
ter's prohibition, exploded. The one
boy denied the other, Bonnie Christie,
would neither admit nor deny it. aud
was severely fiogged for his Obsti-
macy. When the boys got alone again,
"Why didn't you deny it Y asked
the delinquent.
because there were only two, and
one of us must have lIed," sand Bonnie.
Then why didn't you say that | did
.Becansa Won said yon didn't. and
would share the lie."
The boys heart melted; Bonnie's
moral gallantry subdued him.
When the school resumed, the young
rogue marched up to the masters desk
and said:
"Please, sir, can't bear to be liar
i let off the squibs,' and burst into
tears.
The masters eyes glistened on the
self -accuser. and the unmerited punish
ment he had inflicted, on his schoolmate
smote his conscience. Before the whole
school, hand in hand with the culprit,
as if they we're paired in the confession.
the master walked down to where
young Christie sat, and said aloud:
Bonnie Bonnie, lad, he and beg
your pardOn-we both are to blame.n
The school was hushed and still, as
old scholars are apt to he when some
thing truly noble is being dOne-sO
still, they might have heard Bonnie's
bitter tears drop proudly on his book.
as he sat enjoying the moral triumph
which subdued himself. as well as filled
all the rest and then for want of some
thing else to say, he gently cried:
master. fOreverp
The glorious shout of the scholars
filled the old mans eyes with something
behind his spectacles, which made him
wine them before he resumed the chair.
Pet, the Cdnary.-A little girl by the
name of Agnes, who lives in Maine,
has beautiful, bright canary, which
her papa brought her one day in
paper-bOx. Agnes named him Pet.
The little fellow has become so tame,
that he is allowed to stay out of his
cage as long as he wishes, always GO
ing to it of his own accord when bed
time comes. One day found no pins
on my pin-cushiOn |; and, seeing them
scattered around on the bureau, won
dered who could have done the mis-
chief. soon found, by watching, that it
was Pets work.
Every day he took his stand on the
pin cushion, in front of the glass, to
pull out all the pins. | saw him once
work long time trying to stick one
back by tipping his head, first one side
and then the other, holding the pin
tightly in his bill but he soon gave it
up.
Little Fannie, Agnes's twO-year-Old
sister. often shares her lunch with him;
he sitting on the of the saucer, and
helping himself while she is eating.
As write, he is sitting on the tassel of
the shade, looking out of the window.
Some day I'll tell you more of Pets
pranks.
Experience Better than Adrice.-
"Just let me put that creature out of
the way cried Young Snap to Old
Barker, as they passed a hedgehog ly-
ing by the roadside.
IAN right ~ said Barker, trotting on
till he heard Snap behind him.
"Well, finished him 7" he asked, try
ing to catch Snaps eye, which was
turned away.
why, no. said Snap. "the brute
wasn't worth the trouble
"Ah how's your nose r. said Barker;
81 think by the color of it, if you had
made at it much longer, he would have
finished you. had a taste of a cousin
of his once, and since then | have kept
clear of the race. dare say for the
future you will do the same. Expert
ence is better than advice"
Nerer Trust the For.-"Daddy, dad
dy the fox is asleep Just look at him,