West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1877-10-06
A Warming TO Boys.-You bows
Mary MdI'es Dodge.

A Warming TO Boys.-You bows
ought to be very kind To your little sisters.
once knew little boy who struck his
sister blow over the eye. Although
she didn't pine away and die in the sum
mer time, when the June roses were
blowing, with words of sweet forgive
ness on her pallid lips, she rose up and
hit him over the head with the rolling
pin, so that he couldn't go to Sunday
school Tor more than a month, on account
oil not being able to put his best hat on !
A Yearning for Information. un-
married man being left i'm charge of a
six-ycar-old boy by his parents, says he
was piled with questions, of which these
are fractional part: What was nv
name, and my brothers and my fathers
name, and why? What was the reason,
IL didn't have any little boys, didn't
have any little girls? All this put in one
question, with no stops and gradual
infection. Was them buttons gold on
my sleeve, and why? Did they cost
one hundred and fifty dollars? If they
didn't cost one hundred and fifty dollars,
what would be the price of a gold house
with gold furniture and gold staircase :?
Did L ever see q house with these aurif-
erous peculiarities? No! What, then.
would be the cost of leaden carriage
and an iron harness? And why? Did
know why the flies walked on the cell
ing? Could walk on the ceiling? Not
IT had one man To hold my head and
another To hold my legs? Why couldn't
L? Could l if L was giant? Was |
personally acquainted with any? Did
ever sec them eat? What was my bust
ness? Did / know any stories, and
what were they? The victim caught on
this, and crammed the youth with cx-
tracts from Arabian Nights and
''~Baron Munchauscn," until he is GER
tain pent-up torrent of geographical
questions will burst on that father re-
garding the locality of the FLOATING
Island" the Blanc Mango Archipci-
ago" and the Valley of Cream Cakes"
that will make his life miserablel
The COasting DOg.-Once there was
young " skeeswax of boy named
Jim, who had big Newfoundland dog
that he called Major. He was very
black, curly, handsome dog, good
and full OF fun, you know-he loved fun
as well as his master-and his master
loved 1T better than molasses and candy.
lie loved a joke, too, for once when he
was trotting along to the postoffice with
basket in his mouth, as he had been
taught to do, for the mail, little snarl-
ing cur ran out mt him, barking with all
his might. He had bothered Major
often before, and this time the old fellow
dropped his basket and caught the little
cur right around the back in his great
mouth, picked him up and carried him
nd l.:
would have made you laugh to see that
with his tail Rugged tight between his
legs.
Well, one winter Jim used to coast
every day. The hill was Just CLASSY. and
the sleds tipped down swift as an arrow.
Major went out with the boys, and he
could keep up with them climbing the
hill, but when they started down they
soon left him behind. He didn't like this
at all, and so when Jim left his sled to
go to supper-after he had been called
as usual three times, once by Maggie.
the girl, who hollered e" Masther jamie !
supper is ready, shure, COON i'm to
wannst !-once by his mother who said,
Jlm-ME! come to supper this minnitr'
and once by his lther, who Just said,
JimW and crook ID his thumb toward
the house In way TO let Jim know some
thing else would crook if he didn't
mlnd-Major waited outside. When his
little master was stuffng himself with
baked potatoes and brown bread. the dog
took the rope in his teeth and dragged
the sled up the little hill.
When he got on top, he stopped, turned
the sled around, as he had seen the bows
do, and then began TO think-as much
as TO say =" Ought dog slide belly-bunt.
or side-fashion, or sitting upT' He didn't
know whether to steer with his tail. or his
fore feet, or his hind feet. But slide he
must; and so me jumped on, caught the
rope in his teeth, and started down. let
ting the sliced steer itself, while ne sat
up and watched the fun. Down. down
1T went. Major hanging on, but looking
pretty well scared. Just as the sled cot
near the "jOunce" at the bottom. going
like runaway horse, Jim ameout and
you never saw boy so astonished. He
Puckered up his mouth and let out AN
O-h-h-h J" as long as one of the icicles
on the shed. The " jounce threw Major
Of heels overhead i'm front of the sled and
he got caught between the runners and
pushed into a deep snow drift. that
hlled his mouth and eyes and ears full
and made him a. white as a sheen ali
over.
When Jim saw that Major wasn'tburt
he laughed and roared and called the doc
into the back door where his mother was
and said
Here's fellow, that been runninc
away with my sled, and coasting. and
the sled ran away with him, and busted
him good. lguess you had better brush
him off, and see II his feet are wet
and toast his shins before the crate
and tell him he can't 60 out again to-
night"
And when his mamma found il was
the. dog she saw the joke. and laughed
ana didn't tell him a. Bccareful ~ and
Don't get cold" and Z" Bc sure Won
come in on time ~ and " Don't 90 near the
hill till you learn b. steer" over seven
teen times. Wasn't she an uncom.
monty good mamma THE Goidea
Rule.
Franklin's Kite.-In order to test
the identity Of lightning and cleo.
tricity, Benjamin franklin devised AN
ingenious experiment, which was 10 scnd
up pointed wire upon kite bv the
string. Of which the lightning might be
brought within his reach. lie soon
succeeded in realizing this, the most bold
and grand conception which over nyo-