Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-12-04
IMPROVING HER MIND.

m express UeteTlnlnatloh W "Sn
operations on mine that very day.
Ny sister left on the morning tram TO
attend as delegate a temperance con-
yentlon, and had no sooner been whlrled
out of town than my brother-in-law got
out his fishing tackle, put on his ola
clothes, and declared he was gong
fishing now" just as if cared, as long
Ms il wasn't Sunday. The children were
ont playing, and had promised they
wouldn't fight, go out of the yard, or
make a noise the girl was busy with
the dinner; it was model morning,
with warm sunshine, cool breeze, and
fragrant silence, and seemed the most
anspicious of times to begin the impor-
tant task Of cultivating my mind. SO !
took up Shakespeare, turned to
"Othello,7 drew my chair to an uplifted
vine-sbaded window, began reading, land
had come where Oh.Vo was tell
inc GLOW did thrive in this fair lady's
love and she in mine." Now it seems
he was good deal like the fellows
nowadays, and accepted her fathers IN
yitations visited them, dincd with them
talked with them, and related his his
tory, "cven from boysh days" and i'll
- word did everything but propose, and
so one night DeSdsmona set nice little
tran into which he tllmblcd headlong,
of course; that is, one evening she en-
couraged him to tell her of his adven-
lures and dangers and when he had
finished, as III said
''Shc gave me for my pains world OF signs;
And swore, in faith, was strange; twas pass
ing strange
Twas pitiful; twas vondrous pititul
She wished she had MT heard it, yet she wished
That heaven had mad her such man; she
thank'a me;
And babe me, if hada friend that loved her,
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And that would WOO er.'
Now, i haven't word to say against
Des.lemona, for it vas perfectly right, and
no more than / w'uld have done myself,
for her-when tn, gas was turned down,
she was sure no ,ne would hear, her,
and never dreamd it would get into the
papers-to say what she did to him.
But WIS vey different thing for
Othello, in order defend himself To get
up before q lot O "most potent, grave,
and reverend sci,nors," and tell how in
terested in him sle was how she'd rush
around and was the dishes and come
with greedy Ell to hear him talk some
mere, and hor finally she said "sht
wished she hat not heard it; yet she
wished that Haven had made her such
u man" and Twas thinking how near
lie was to giveler away in that style be-
fore all those flks, when six children
with more acolning, rushed in ant
screamed:
ooh She idying, Aunt Chat. She''
dying"
who I" ,sked inditferently.
1.-The COW Come quick, the COW "
With the raidity of lightning wenr
from the pres0ce of the grave and re
vsrend signio, to the cow-yard where
she was tied prt of the time, and there
the noble anilnl that gave milk for five
families, lay her back with the rop,
twisted arount one horn and one leg
while ever anNnon she would attemp,
to rise, groan, nd jam her other horr
into her side, ad lash the ground will
her tail, eyenas u storm lashes thu
ocean waves. looked at her in DIES
pair, thought othe big reputation tol
charity my sistth had worked up on TIT
skim milk she eve away, and | said t.
the children whwere clamoriug for nj
to do somethingor her: "Keep still
you little idiots ;lon't you see she il
dying. and ca do nothing! DON
You see forty merould not put her Of
feet and if she " turned over it woul,
run her horn rigbtraight through he
heart 7"
Just here SHE nile another plunge
and cried out in agony
oh can't we . Il lum anywhere
anywhere! Run the butcher; hir
some one to shoot H.. and put her on
of her misery; sci for the doctor.
Here u big boy whQad been attracte,
by the hubbub vault over the fence
took IN the sltuatloAt glance, an,
cried:
"Give me the butcr-knite the AK.
Don't you dare / that cow"
exclaimed, but betorhe words wer
fairly out of my mout he had seize,
an AK and started wards her, an,
"shrouding up my face turned ava
to weep where could G her not til
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