The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-06-06


they arc as ashamed as ahuman; they shut fghtdown
and leave
80 You may Gala iay bird, Well 50 he Is, in
meaSnrc-bccausc he got feathers on him, aud don't
belong TO no church Perhaps but otherwise he Is Just
as mucll human as you be- Aud IN tel Won toi
interests, c6yoi Tho whole ground iay hasn't got
any mole Principle than Congressman A Jay VIII
lie, Jay win steal Jay Will deceive Jay WIZ be-
on ns %SIg you qsat siSn into 81
Jay can out. swear az any gentleman In The mines
You think cat can swear. Wen, q cat can; but you
give Sae-,cy subject that calls Tor his reserve
know too much about This thing Ana tne,,'s yet
another thing IN the zone little particular Of scoding-
Just good, clean .and out scoiing-abu Jay can
lay over anything, human or divine, Yes, SIR law
seyciytiing that man Is a jay can cry, Jay can
nugg1 lay So tcS shame Jay can lesson and plan
goi sense Of iumoi. jay KNOWS when ht Il IN ass
lust rs well Won do-maybe better, II a iay Amt
I'm going 10 ten Won perfectly true fact about some
| biuc-jays."
correctly ,hcre was little ,nc,ic, happe,,ei here
seven. years ago. The last man IN this region but me-
cvci slncr, a iop iicige. With plank icof-ust one
Zig toli, ana HS iotc: no ceiling tBthlGr between
the tafeis and he ro1f. Vol lib sriisS morning
was si,ii,c n,t he,c In f,opi "r NV cabin ,,i nv
cat taking The sun and looking at iic Ilue b,IIs and
listening 10 The leaves yustllnr 50 lonely IN The trees
and thinking Of The home away Wonder In the states
tina, I h,n't be,rJ f,nw In thirteen wears wbeu a
bite law il on ,is boWsSe wi, an acorn in lis mouth
and SAYS, iIiti, itGkan l'.r sttocs icnsiiiing.'
| and rolled down The t,of Of coutse I'm, he didn't
care. his mind was All on The thing he had struck II
was knot hole In the roof lie cooked his head 10
one side shut one eve and mt the other one hole
like 'possum looking down Inc, then he glanced
up with his bright ewes gave wink OF two With his
wngs-whch sirn,aes r,ni, tca,,on Won understand
and says, II locks Ike hole H. located like hole
| ti.iiiri " doh 4 lyiIcyo n u n ho,c,'
"1hep he cocteI H. 4, Ak iil,u s,J TINT another
la.G,
his wings and his tail both. and saws 10. no Ills
amt no fat thing, rcckoni II ain't In lckHwhy
got that acorn, aid fetched it ur and Dropped II n
and was lust fitting his head back with tho heaven
paralyzed into listening attitude and that smile
faded gradually out OF his counlcpanre like breath
Ca'n razor, and tile quee,es, lcot Of surprise tool.
lie cncsci his tTb nj ie ISIe again and took lnup
look. raised nh and siobk his Head; STEPPED around
To the other side of ,he hole and took aintber look
from thai si". shook his head " ara,n, lie s,uI,ci
awhile then he lust went into tIc det,ils-walked
round aud round The hole aud spcd into 1t from every
point of the compass No use Now he took n think
inn attitude on the comb of tho roof am, the
back Of his head with his righ, foot minute and
| inay SAWS Wtlj Va Ton ,ne,y TOT me- that's Ger
tain; must lie mighty long hole h,we,if 1 amt
got no time to fool around here Got to tend to isi-
ness; reckon It. all light-chancc Ii, anyway
1t n and tried to frt his eye to the hole quick enough
| TO see what become of H. Int be was loo Inte lie
held his eve there as mur, s minnie, then he raised
mp and sighed, and saws .Consound It, don seem
| TO Understand this thiur, No wny, however IN
tackle her again. lie fetched anohet athtu AMI
done his level best to see what become of It, nut he
| couldn't He saws well never struck no such
hole as this before; I'm of the opinion It's totally
new kind OF n hole Then he hcrnn 10 rct mad lie
held In FOR SPELL walking nm and dnwn the comb of
the roof AMI shaking his head and mu,tcrinr ia him
self but his feelings ro the INNER hand of him rres-
cntIy and he broke oose and c,,sge himself black In
Tho face never 500 a hirI take on so nhnut n Ii,tIe
| thing When he GOT through he walks to The hole
and looks In again for half a minute. then he saws
Well Won, rr , jonr hole AMI a ,lren hole and n
mighty singular hole aI,orcther,mt I've started In
to I'm volt and m id If iovt Mi yo, II II takes
| hiindted yeatsil
| "And with that away IL, Went ( oil ,iejcr see n
bird work so since Won were born lie laid into his
work like niger and the way hc hove acorns into
that hole for about two ours and aiolf was one of The
most exciting and sbiny snccir,cs ever str,c
| hove ZEN In AID Welt FIR moro We'll, Mt last be
could hardly fop his winrs he was so tuckcrrI out
| lie comes o-JrTpnp down once more sweating Ike
an ice-pitcber ,rops his acnru I'm and saws Nor /
guess Eve rot the bulge on Won by this tne, So he
bent down for look If you. bc,iryc ma when his
says 'Iye sioyecd acorns eno,,rb I'm there TO keen
the family thirty wears and AZ cnn s, aim of one
of ,cm wish may I,nI In , ,,nsann, viii &, ho,iv
| full of sawdust In two minutos,,
| "IIe lust had strength enough io crawl nm ON to
| the comb and lean his hack ayIn Tho rh,mbv and
then he collected his Impressions and eo,n Ia free iii,
mind, sec I'm , scron, thnt what hal m,st,o, far
| YOU may sas
| II Anuief i,+ was going by and ben,,, him doing
his deyot ions and s,nus In nnuirc ,yL,t ,,a nm Mn
| sufferer told him the whole circumstance and soys
| Now yonter's the hole and If Won ,lou.t believe
me, go and look for yot,rscif' How nany did Won