Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-20
HITLER AND YON.

weather was warmer. Even since Decembe
set i'll some of the Little Men have made
their presence known out of doors. One il
particular who lived near a spring had wide
acquaintance, and his voice was often hearC
in the cleaning lamenting the final closing
for the Year Of those large yellow flowers
which would be called Four o'Clocks were
they smaller and lived in an other CLINE. We
suppose the elf had had some tender reve,s
under those expanding petals. A boy who
has lately begun to wear long trousers and
who longs for hip pocket and sure-enough
pistol, thinks that this same man-fairy has
come into the house and taken up his res
idence there; but his mother (the boy 8
mother) says she is afraid it is Il rat, or, per
haps stray squirrel or chipmonk that has
been seen haunting the premises and nib
! bling at the table crumbs about the kitchen
door. And so the mother thinks it will g
wise to sell old "Abe" the hOuse-drg (who
hates cats), and get Cat to drive away the
rats and injector the mice are very plen
| tiful and very sancy. Zone of the wee
marauders was found the other day building
| her nest in the pocket of papa great coat IN
the hall, and helping herself to the pinenuts
and cracker crumbs thereby. But there is
great and serious danger in getting cat-or,
rather, i'll driving off the snppositlve mice
and rats For mignt'ht they be The Little
Menu We all remember how once upon
time, a great many years ago in Wales, the
FAIRIES were driven away forever from GER
tain farm house; how the Dame, being
noyed by the dirt which constantly
rumbling into the dishes on her table from
overhead when she and her harvest-men
were at dinner adopted the plan which thus
banished the Little Folk from her house.
They were all seated at dinner, you remem-
Der, when the Brownies made so great clat
ter among the bare rafters that they tumbled
down the dust in such quantities as that the
whole meal was spoilt This made the Dame
very wroth indeed; and the next day when an
old woman came into the house and said she
knew of way to rid the place of the mis-
chievous intruders the Dame took her advice, !
which was thus: To invite the six harvest men
70 dinner and to boil all that was needed to
serve them in an egg she'll. Well, she did |
this; and when the elves discovered that the
dame had boiled great dinner for no less |
than six stout men in the shell of an egg, !
they said to one another: owe have lived on
this earth before the acorns were planted, bur
We mover saw SO marvellous thing the
Il &C " |
III gg-shell before, and there must be some
dreadful power under this roof which we had
better respect by going away And so they
went away and staid away, never, never going
into that house again, tho they did stay
thout among the cows and sheep, and were
known to comb the boards of the goats on
Saturday nights so that they might look tidy
Oh Sunday. Now this was in Wales, to be
sure; but who can tell but there may have
come over with the Llewellyns and the
'aries, and that some of them are even how
now frolicking under yOn roof-treel Every
pody knows how these Little Folk are able
md willing and constant to keep away all
sorts of harm from those they love and care
or. Then hadn't we better be careful about
irving Thorn away2 Look at Cinderella, how
hey befrended her! We think it would be
he better and saf,r way to not sell old Abe,
he house-dog but to keep him and let him
care off the cats which might, but for him,
ume to trouble the Brownies and frighten
hem away. At all events, children, We will
lot boil our dinner in an eggshel for fear of
What might happen then.
Santa Claus is pretty poor this year, but he
very kind, nevertheless; that little boys
md girls (and some big ones too), who want i
o have the good saint bring them some nice 2
ew skates or some new boots with red tops u
u them, or pretty wax dolls or something Q
cry, very nice must be just good they q
an and quit stoning Cinnamon and playing 3
ookey and blowing spit-balls and other pro IL
ecties at their teachers noses. Also, the h
title boys who slyly slip clancy or toy >
istol or some such trinket into their pockets
hen the man amt looking they'd better
,ok out or their stockings will go empty and Y
ever have AS much in them as papas broken y
laded knife mammals old, dry, sugar
cart, all fy-specked and left over from last u
ears dinner with the Sguire-which, mind :"
on, are to some poor little chaps good deal - :,
etter than nothing, bless their innocent y
tile souls y"