Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-10

shut up in the byre, and hadn't had bit
to eat or g. drop to drink all the morning,
though the sun was high. Tnen al at
once he thought It was too far to take
her down to the meadow, SO he'd just
get her up on the house tOp-fOr the
house, you must know, was matched
with sods and fine crop of grass was
growing there. Now their house lay
close up against steep down, and he
thought if he laid q plank across to the
COW up.
But still he couldn't leave the churn,
for there was his little babe crawling
about on the floor, and if leave il"
he thought, I" the child is sure to upset
it," So he took the churn on his back
and went out with it; but then he
thought he'd better first water the cow
before he turned her out on the thatch !;
SO he took up bucket to draw water
out of the we'll; but as he stopped down
at the wells brink, all the cream ran
out of the churn over his shoulders,
and so down into the well.
Now it was near dinner-time and
he hadn't even got the butter yet; so
he thought he'd best boil the porridge,
and filled the pot with water, and hung
it over the fire. When he had done
that, he thought the COW might per-
haps fall off the the hatch and break
her legs or neck. So he got up on the
house to tie her up. One end of the
rope he made fast to the cows neck,
and the other he slipped down the
chimney and tied round his own thigh !;
and he had to make haste, for the wa
ter now began to boil in the pot, and he
had still to grind the oatmeal.
So he began to grind away; but while
he was hard at it, down fell the COW off
the housetop after all, and as she fell,
she dragged the man up the chimney
by the rope. There he stuck fast; and
as for the cow she hung half way
down the wall, swinging between heav-
en- and earth, for she could neither get
down nor up.
And now the goody had waited sew
en- lengnths and seven breadths for her
husband to come and call her home to
dinner but never call they had. AT
last she thought she'd waited long
enough, and went home. But when she
got there and saw the COW hanging in
such an ugly place, she ran up and cut
the rope in two with her scythe. But as
she did this down came her husband
; out of the chimney; and SO when bis
old dame came inside the kithen, there
she found him standing on his head In
the porridge pot.
Baby-Life in China and Hindoostan.
The bare-headed baby of China, not
quite SO grave IS his Asiatic cousins, il
still contented little traveller, whethe,
i. he rides on the back of mamma, or i.
!. tied on mat to sleep, or exposed be-
side the door in bamboo cage, or fas
. tened to his gilded baby chair, to teach
him to sit up. The most important
moment in his young life is when, al
the age of one year, he decides his flu
!; ture destiny in a curious way. He is
carefully dressed in new clothes, and
, seated In the middle of large sieve
in which are placed many articles
among which are money-scales, = brass
mirror, writing utensils, books, silver
, and gold ornaments, and fruits, while
the anxious parents stand by to sec
: which object will first attract his sober
black eyes. If he takes up q book OF
? pencil, he is destined to become s
{ scholar; if the glitter gold or silver at
, tract him, his fate is to amass wealth
) if fruits suit him best, he will incline tC
spurn the rice of his fathers table, and
feast upon delicate puppy-stew, o.
blrd's-nest soup.
: At two years Of age he will dress like
his grandfather Of eighty, and look like
that old gentleman seen through the
, small end of an opera-glass. When be
t first enters school, he will bring, not 8
, spelling-book and slate, but two candles
, few sticks of incense, and small
quantity of mock money (made of pa
/ per-, to be burned before piece of pa
per having the name of Confucius writ
, ten upon it. Thus the little Chinese
traveller is launched on his school-life
The little traveller on the shore of the
Ganges has a very different life. Bath
ed every day in the sacred stream, OF
in a jar of its water; scrubbed with it,
J holy mud-ears, eyes, and mouth
thoroughly purified from all sin, as his
parents devoutly believe-how can he
help being better than other babies
He is jolly, happy baby, bright as the
sunshine of his native land; MOI
troubled with clothes if he belongs tc
the poor classes, but wrapped in gor:
geous silks of scarlet and blue, loaded
with jewels, and weighed down by enor'
NOUS gold-embroidored turban, if he
happens to be prince.
This little Hindoo traveller sleeps in a
basket hung from the roof, and rides
out on mammals hip: and, what seems
dreadful to us, he learns to smoke be-
fore he can walk, his mother often tax
ing a cigar from her own lips and put
ting it into his. If his Ife-journey is
cut short, his body is carried to the
grave in his basket-cradle, which is Gov
cred with a fringeu canopy and hung
from a pole on the shoulders of men,
and left at last upside down on his last
resting place.-iSt. Nicholas for January.
Successful Fish Culture.
A few years ago, Mr.. Poppee, of
Sonoma, imported five carp from
Germany, that being the total num-
Der of the consignm ent which survived
the iOnrnev with the view Of trvino