The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-02-22

PUT ON Your BRAKES" When am
man l am going to be brakeman"
announced Davie, after two minutes
earnest reflection.
81 am sure / don't care what you are
going to be when you are man, If you
will only stop teasing me now with your
going to be's,'" answered Agnes, shak-
ing up the sofa cushions and settling her
self among them again.
"Why need you wait until you are
man, Davie dear?" asked sister Mary
gently.
"Why, because = because you see,
Mary, Pm too young; Pm not strong
enough. Oh, you've got to be awful,
awful strong to be brakeman"
"Come and sit down beside me, Davie !;
l will tell you how you can not only be
brakeman now, but cars and engine, and
all beside"
81 am sure, Mary, he is rackety enough
without teaching him how to make more
noise" grumbled Agnes.
"Come, come, little sister, the lesson
will do you good too; put your Won
derland away for while, and learn how
to put brakes on"
NOW, DoNiS, you oAO SuAo civ VhSihO
both-do you understand?
Gall right"
"Your route lies across the land
called Life, and your destination is
Heaven"
Gall right; but where is the road,
MaryW
"You will know the right road by fol-
lowing the shining footprints left by the
Son Of God as he went over it,"
"They are the headlights, Ell, MaryT
eyes, dear, if you wish to call them
so; he truly lit them nearly nineteen
hundred years ago."
"Go on"
"Now, your engine is called Good
WILL your engineer 'SelfcOntrol,' and
your fireman TRUTH"
whats the conductors nameW
"Mr. Conscience. Your baggage-mas-
ter is Mr.. Honesty. and your brakeman
is little Davie Colville."
Gall right now for the passenger
car"
"Your heart is the passenger car, and
your brains are the baggage Car. Now
we have got our cars all named, come,
Mr.. Brakeman, and connect them"
GAIL right, Mary; first the baggage
car goes on, and then the smoking car.
Must we have smoking carp
"Well, if you think our little brake
man is going to have hours when he will
be cross and ugly and selfish he ought to
have some dark, dirty. disagreeable
place to hide away; we'll take the
smoking car if you like for that pur-
pose."
"I guess we'll do without it, Mary"
every good; now hook on your pas
senger cars"
"No, Mary, they call that making a
coupling"
"Oh indeed make the coupling then.
What nextp
"The engine"
"And then, Davie"
GAIL aboard All right! Go ahead P'
sang out Davie.
"Now we are fairly started" said
Mary, gayly; "and all goes well until
we nearly reach our first stopping place
what then
"Well, here comes Mr.. Conscience
he asks one of the passengers who is cross
and mean and just as ugly as ugly can
be-his name is Mr.. Very Bad Temper
Tickets says Mr.. Conscience. Have
not got one,' growls Mr.. Very Bad Tenn.
per. Then Mr.. Conscience discovers that
Mr.. Very Bad Temper belongs to that
fraudulent family of wicked deeds and
wicked thoughts who never have ticket
because they cannot buy one for any
money. Mr.. Conscience tells SelfCon-
troll, the engineer, and he whistles the
brakes down in moment, and now,
Davie, as you are brakeman, you have
got to take Mr.. Very Bad Temper by the
shoulders and put him off,"
ooh now, Mary, l see what you
mean and think it will be deal har-
der to be brakeman on the road to
Heaven than on the Erie line"
"That is true, dear; but then Jesus
Christ is always willing to help those who
cry unto him for help. But there ia
mamma calling me; must 90. Remem.
Der your lesson"
"David Colville, stop putting your
foot on my dolls carriage" called Agnes,
sharply, from among her cushions.
You hush up, Agnes; l amt hurt
ing your old dolls carriage" answered
Davie, angrily.
BRAKES down, in there |" said sister
Mary, with merry smile, peeping in as
she passed.
Both children laughed, and Mr.. Very
Bad Temper was Immediately put of the
car.-Christidn Union.
The Fox AND THE SToRK.-A fox
one day invited stork to dinner, but
provided for the entertainment only the
first course, soup. This being in shall
low dish. of course the fox lapped IN
readily, but the stork, by means of his
long bill, was unable to gain mouthful.
"You do not seem fond of SOUP" said
the fox, concealing smile in his nap
kin. Snow, 1t is one of my greatest
weaknesses"
"You certainly seem to project your
self outside of large quantity" said the
stork, rising with some dignity, and ex-
aiming his watch with considerable en-
pressement; "but have an appointment
at eight o'clock which / had forgotten. l
must ask to be excused. Au reuoir. BY
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