Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-09
Beautiful Little AIlegory.

In spite of the wiles of that saucy old hen.
GRACE T. SPEAR.
Beautiful Little Allegory.
"A humming-bird met a butterfly,
and, being pleased with the beauty of
it's person and the glory of it's wings,
made an offer of perpetual friendship.
II cannot think OF it," was the reply,
" as you once spurned me and called me
a drawing dolt."
"Impossible!" exclaimed the hum
ming-bird. II always entertained the
highest respect for such beautiful Great
ures as you"
"Perhaps you do now," said the other,
but when you insulted me 1 was cater
pillar. So let me give you piece of
advice; never insult the humble, as
they may some day become your su-
perior.
Tho Good Man and the Bad Man.
Ia JAPANESE FABLE-TRANs1ATED BY r. E.
HALIFAX
In the good old times, long ago, there
lived, in q village in the province of
Hizen, an old couple noted for their
honesty and simplicity. They had
bought little dog, of which they be-
came very fond, treating it as if it had
been one of their children.
One day the old man was out in the
fields with his hoe, when the dog COM
menced scratching certain place, and
then running to the old man and back
to the spot again, scratching the earth.
This he repeated until the old man was
directed to the spot, much to the dogs
delight. The dog continuing to scratch
the ground: the old man picked up his
hoe, and, with few sturdy strokes,
turned up an immense heap of gold and
silver coins, which he took home, and
On examination found himself to have
suddenly become rich man. He was
naturally grateful to his little dog, and
gave it the best of food and the incest
of beds.
Now, in the same country place, there
was q wicked old man, who, hearing of
the dogs cleverness in finding buried
treasure, determined to borrow it and
try his luck at becoming rich without
labor, but was refused the loan of the
dog by his master, who feared that it
would not receive kind treatment. So
the wicked old man contrived to steal
the dog, and watched its movements
anxiously and carefully for some time.
One day, seeing it scratching the earth,
he dug down, hoping to find money,
but only disinterred an old skull. En-
ragged at being disappointed by the dog,
after having fed it on meat and other
things, he, in his passion, and like q
wicked old man that he was, killed the
poor animal, and then went to his mas
ter and loudly complained of the poor
drown the expression of the blame that
he deserved. But the good old man,
after finding the body of his dog, and
burying it at the foot of large pine
tree in the forest, and close by where
the money was found, cried himself to
sleep in his grief for the loss of his ia
vorite. In his sleep he dreamed that
the dog came to him and told him to
cut down the very tree, and make from
it an qIsW "a large wooden mortar in
which rice is hulled).
The old man told his wife ct his
dream, and she advised him to do as he
had been directed. So the next day lie
felled the tree, and, cutting off Sec
tion, followed it out. When the q1sa1
was finished he tried it by putting in
some rice that required hulling, and, to
his astonisLment, after the first few
blows of the pestle, each grain of rice
was changed into gold coin!
The wicked old man, hearing of this
new stroke of fortune, went to spy on
the good man, and, seeing for himself
the surprising fact of the rice being
turned into money, was filed with fresh
envy at his neighbours good luck, and
accordingly determined to borrow the
osa1. After much persuasion and some
threats he obtained the loan of it; but
his rice turned into filth; at which he
became SO angry that he chopped up
the offending uS11 and commenced to
burn it, when the owner came to claim
ito find only the remains.
The good old man again dreamed
that the little dog came to him, this
time instructing him to obtain the ashes
and to go to the great highway where
the mobiles passed, and, by sprinklirg
the ashes, the cherry trees then bare
of blossoms or leaves-would immedi-
ately bud and blossom.
Now, those were the good old days,
when mobiles travelled in state with
their retinues, dressed as beftted their
high station, and rose on horseback, or
In morim01a "a kind of sedan chair).
not, as in these degenerate times. when
even the highestin the land condescend
to ride in ja'arikishas "a two-wheeled
carriage drawn by man), wear lift
ting and uncomfortable foreign clothes.
unsightly hats, and get attacks of dys-
pepsia from badly-cooked foreign food
composed of materials too strong for
their weak stomachs- and affect to des-
pise what their forefathers were proud
of. Those were the days when the
Tonosawa was open-handed to the poor,
ready with his sword for the insolent.
Our good old man went to the wicked
old mans house, and begged for at
least the ashes Of his property, only to
receive portion-the rest being re-
Gained on suspicion that there must be
some urgent reason for coming so far
for apparently such trivial thing. The
good old man took the ashes, and,
mounting cherry tree on the high
road, awaited the approach of the great
man who was expected to pass that way.
When he drew near he asked the old
man what he was doing in the tree, and
why he did not PROSTATE himself before
him; to which the old man replied by
saying that he would show him the tree
bursting into blossoms before his eyes
by sprinkGng upon it pinch of ashes.
Stopping his retinue, he ordered the