Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-15
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telephone, we simply laughed at the playful
but shallow deception, and so he remains our
County Assessor to this day instead OF beng
what Mons. Mantilini called ga dem moist
corpse:" but when gentleman presents
lady with boquet of muslin flowers with wire
stems. scented with Florida Water and like
nerfumerv, instead of availing himself of the
real live herbs Observation-Disclosures as they
.rs--tben does our old blood boil, and We
wsnt to be indicted for killing man-milli-
ner. 1t is like eating dried apples in straw
berry time or substituting oleomargarine for
fresh ranch butter "A young man who will
DO larger when he grows, pointed out to his
papa the other day very funny scarecrow.
1t stands in little corn-patch in the lane
toward Gardeners. The same is cruel
fed That is to say, it Is coat lifted on
cross, the lateral pieces serving for arms and
the top for the head; on this head was the
traditional plug hat. The coat was buttoneo'
with great, almost too great precision across
the breast, as if to conceal the fact of shirt
lessness, and the hat had rakish set, as II
he, the Great North American Scare-Crow,
were in his cups How people do run IN
grooves Here's garden-patch OF say one
eighth Of subdivided one half of an acre,
running to q gore, and never crow once IN
six months within flying distance of that hit
tie wee handful of cornfeld. And yet Mr..
garden man he must take coat that would
cut I'D into whole suit for young tow-head
and make him as proud SIS prize pig at cat
tie show, and make a scarecrow OF It, In the
first place the coat is worth more than all the
corn; in the next place there amt any crows
to scare, and in the last place that figure
might excite a crows derision, but certainly
not his fear. But people viii stick to old no.
tons; and 1t is just impossible to associate
corn from crows and both from an efhgy among
the growing maize as it is to divorce straw
berries from cream or apple jack from honey.
One of the youngsters declared that that scare
crow was something more than just wood and
old clothes and a battered hat; and his eyes
opened wide and he looked very serious, and
we have no doubt he thinks there Is some
thing ghostlike, and bugabooish about 1t, al
ter dark 1t does have very mysterious,
overweight, glu1n- glumish look about 1t
About these times the good Sabbath
School boy who refrains from running about
the steeets during the Lords Day gets an ap-
ple-box and stick and string and some
wheat and goes out in his mothers kitchen
yard and there sets snare for the chickens.
When, after many Intellectual attempts to
spring his trap SO as to catch chicken, one
does get under, he hauls away at his string,
not observing in his mad excitement, that the
old yellow hens neck is just under the edge
Of the box After that unlucky fowl (Which
had died from the dislocation of her cervlcal
vertabra, consequent upon the mishap above
mentioned) had been buried, a couple OF
days, and the dog had dug her up and hauled
her mutilated remains into the dining room,
Mater familias begins to remember that she
hasn't seen the old hen for day or two, and
now, how could it have happened that she
met her untimely DOOM Does Bartholomew
speak I'D like little man, and say he did 1t
with his box trap2 No, he turns tribe
green about the mouth and ears and joins
ailently in his mothers wonder. The little
Susan Anthony, what does she say} Does
she not look with her large blue eyes into her
dear parents face and confess the truth No.
she catches the contagion from her brother
and thinks it must have been Flora, neigh
boris mother-dog. Then up speaks truthful
Ichabod who has just come in with his new
shirt in a state of hopeless contamination with
the soil and one stocking lost past redemption
and let's the cat out of the bag! Oh! there was
ioy in that household-but it was long after
the sound of the Sending maternal palm
had ceased to be heard and after the tlngllng
of little bodies has Teen assuaged, We
observe with great pleasure that our most
excellent friend, DR. Fox, has possessed him
self of a most comfortable four-wheeled chalse
I'VE never say "buggy' without sort OF
cringe), and q handsome sorrel-qulte
rig, indeed, for gentleman of the Doctors
style and bearing. A patient must indeed be
difficult OF soothing if the pleasant apparatlon
of the Doctor and his turnout would not
cause him sense of calmness, reinsurance and
relief. Tagless dogs become past all grace
tomorrow The master becomes liable to a
sort of litigious impounding, as well as his
dog if he fail to obtain license to keep his
beast. Because these are dog days increases