Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-06
THE WAY THE CHINESE STOP AN ASS
BRAYINE.

In 1910 (says the Able Hue) we were
once making a journey in wagon in the
province of Pekin. Our equipage was under
the guidance of an old schoolmaster, mounted
upon magnificent ass, so full of ardor and
agility that the two mules which completed
our team had all the difficulty in the world
to keep up with him. This ass, however, was
so filled with sense of his own superiority,
and 80 proud of it, that whenever he became
aware of the presence of any of his brethren,
he never failed to commence boasting Of it in
such loud, sonorous and harsh tones that his
folly became quite insupportable.
When he got to an inn, instead of trying
to rest himself, the beast passed the whole
night practicing music, setting all the don
keys in the neighborhood to singing the same
tune, so that it was impossible to sleep.
One evening we said to the schoolmaster :
"Your donkey is an abominabe brute it
prevents my getting wink of sleep"
"Why did you not tell me so beforeP said
the schoolmaster. II would soon have
stopped his singing"
As the old pedagogue was somewhat of a
wag, and INDUCED sometimes in small joke,
we took little notice of his reply, but that
night we slept quite soundly.
swell did the ass make that noise last
night?" he asked, when we met in the morn
ing.
"Perhaps not" said we; "at all events we
did not hear him."
"No, think not" said he; 81 saw to that
before I went to bed You must have no.
ticed," he continued, "that when an ass is 60
ing to bray, he always begins by raising his
tail, and keeps it extending horizontally as
long as his song lasts To insure his silence,
you have only to tie large stone to the end
of his tail, so that he cannot raise it."
We smiled without reply, thinking this
was only another piece of pleasantly; but he
cried:
"Come, now, and see; you can easily con.
vince yourself"
And accordingly we followed him to the
courtyard, where we beheld, sure enough, the
poor ass with large stone attached to his
tail, and with the air of having lost his &C.
customed spirit. His eyes were fixed on the
ground, his ears hung down, his whole ap-
pearance denoted humility and detection.
Feeling quite compassionate towards him, we
now begged his master to unite the stone d.
rectly; and as soon as ever he felt the musical
appendage at liberty, the creature raised first
his head, then his ears, then his tail, and at last
began to bray with all his wonted energy.
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A SLIGHT MIsrAKE.-The present Arch
bishop of Dublin, the gifted author Of the
work, 80 widely known, on the Study of
Words, is not in very robust health, and has
been for many years apprehensive of paraly-
sis. At recent dinner in Dublin, given by
the Lord. Lieutenant of Ireland, his Grace
sat on the right of his hostess, the Duchess of
Abercorn. In the midst of the dinner the
company was startled by seeing the archbish-
op rise from his seat aud still more startled
to hear him exclaim, in dismal and sepul-
chral tone, "It has come! it has GOMEZ"
"What has come, your Grace?" eagerly
cried halfa-dozen voices from different parts
of the table.
"What have been expecting for twenty
years." solemnly answered the archbishop
"a stroke of paralysis. have been pinching
myself for the last twenty minutes, and find
myself entirely without sensation"
"Pardon me, my dear archbishop" said
the duchess, looking up to him with some.
WlaC QulZZlCdi Poioou a'o AoA Sod-
tradicting you, but it is 1 that you haze been
pinching."
s@ The other day Burlington boy start
ed to carry home yellow jackets nest to tie
to the dogs tail to have some fun. He
didn't get the nest all the way home, as it be-
come 50 heavy he couldn't carry it, but he
succeeded in coaxing most of the yellow jack
cts to accompany him the whole distance,
and they supplied him with so much smuse-
ment that he hasn't once thought of fun or
the dog since, and doesn't think he ever will.
agA rich but parsimonious and very old
gentleman, on being taken to task for his un-
charitableness, said: "True, don't give
much; but if you only knew how it hurts
me when l give anything you wouldn't won
der. am in hopes to feel differently when
/ inherit brother Bills property"
GONG TO MovE.-"Do you think your
father is going to move out soon?" inquired
the owner of a rented house of the son of his
tenant. "Reckon so," was the reply; we've
gun using the winder frames for frewood." J"