, 1880-12-19
The Talented Bird SWoops upon
the Chicago POST
Office.
Weighing, Numbering, and Nor
alizing upon Our i.
Letters.
How They Expound Chicago's
Commerce and Shone upon
st. Louis.
Romance and Reality by the Ton
Some Reaections-The Boy
and the Bull.
10 the Editor Of The Chicago IHbune.

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kih Woald PROBABLY describe LIE 4ntei1o! "
ne 1h1caeo fostro1aee as o. mp1ons ,,..,a -
red.-a cr1tlc'sln which ue ,E s,e 1.;tn;...- !u.u
'ess piesa1ttng lns'oG un1. @ .l'o.e y" ,at."n, s
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nnnu'es' ol H''o o"I WY I'e souao"
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ee". soE'e ua5' a''o 1iae NC "loh1u ~ "ou4o
4eno iAl'n HIS nc" "''s"n: "n5' ueu'
THIS "oioEocS l1ti!.E ."1
was 1oio 10 eo over 10 uie iefAlnssss' just
across lne lot, anu play VIII llo lerkihses
little Jimmie Inc reason lo1 tils was some
"hat ooscule; out II may w ~ oo"n as
general 1act that whenever 1ne fefk'hses
eot III ne" piece OF 1ufnisule' OF haa
grand dinner win TWO Kings OF PIE OF nn~
oe'"eh. my QUIET Sucn i'oeao'e upnea''u'
ielkihs Atue 10Y was al"ass sentstsy over
10 tcil al th's HOUSE: alo 1''a' WHEN
ever 1ooalc felklns Rot aneWorcss' OF nc"
peau' sue "oalo al"ass "alh Wy "Ae1e s's1e1
Liz couH see1 anu Wouio s.'cA Ael muse up
ana "aeeie from sue 10 slne as grandly as
milwaukee girls do, ana JUST set sister Llz
wild.
Well. of course. the Zouave suit. with the
411,t t>,.r-; ;r, had {r, tn port-frc3
1rse1e ~ w, ~ H. ,.au ~ ~ u'e1 :" eAls i1 -
Inc httle boy oldh want 70 70 q Dlt,-he
wanted to 60 down and
CATCH rAnPoLEs
with Niger Joe, down By the ice pond-and,
besides, Perkins little boy used to lick him
rpe11larl; about every other week. and as
",,I, - 49, ,as "s.' e. 4na ..',-s
near ''s he coaiu lsafe IL .'l1s was lld "eek'
no use, to Perkins he had to 60. saw him
start across the ten-acre 1ot,-which was just
III its glory with clover and buubIe-bees.-
~ s;,,nr,, .a-oss +l,o+ ~ a,,t w., t,o,,-
every roo oI so 10 see II g1anilha, anu
Johnny, and Squire BlgElns were looking
which, Of course, they were, and then stop
,isi,t il, the middle of the LOT tn whistle nm n
o""upFpus'
kins' bull, and big, bold. bad, black bull he
was. A1tmorninr lie had neen tuning nm IN
e'o'e1' a''o was Just IN tne 1uiaor 10 10 SOME
1llins of1'efy,-he didn't care much What 1t
was. lie saw that little boy, that peaceful
little bow all in red. like the nice little Zouaye
th,t ha v,c aud ;m,nad;,talx, hoo.n ~ -, -,
up dirt and prepare for business. Grandma
saw him and screeched; and sister Liz tainted
away; and Johnny ran down to get nirgpr
Joe, who WAS great on bulls; and Squire
higgins hugged sister Liz, and hollered to
INA 10 fetch down pas gun; and pa he raced
around, and said those dam 1'erkinscs put
that bull out there purpose; and the bull,
h, paved and
p.wrn .-cn prrJowrn
,,,a +ha ,,t.1o ,sa.. a.. sr.l'... 49, ,
any, ,.I a7 @ 'a poS ~ 1e snumt I1ne 9a4Han,
INV htp. W; !; pG..eenJ Mn1sslE up
.at r,'a' ~ utpn"puEh ~ ~ rais, Mnen glaaa h:a1
,,;,,' Hi o' 40, ~ r. ns' Enea ~ scIe LG pul!
WIZ. anu slsleI Liz naQ come 70, anu s:lltl
had Lisst.I hnr and ca;i H.. tfnre-i,t thn I,rIi
was only piayit,': and ma had got pa's gun
and loaded it. with the sl1ot in first: ami 1,a
he had danced out after a pitchfork: and
johnny. he came fearir1v In lickitysnlit viii,
ligger .t.,e,-wlly. then it was that that bull
r,,t under way. and that the doodebue began
IL spit IN dirt and make it as interestinT rs
possible for that red little boy. Kindly think
inv, no doubt. that if the little Inv saw the
bull he might feel uneasy too. ali Of which
was very good of tho do,u,lcbug.
II didn't take more than a half a minute.
after this, to make things red-llot in Shc!oy,
gan. The bull caught that little boy right in
the scruff of those trousers aud sent Him lp
wlizzing, so high that he could hear the
angels sing and then skipped over to second
base a. it were, and caught him OH the fly, su
tn speak, and gave him another ya,lk sky
wards, as nimbly as before, and got back 10
h"nle base in time to give him still another
bounce.
Meantime, pa had rushed out with the
pltclltork, and grandma with the umbrella,