Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-12-30

peace. And he said:
"Ge to, daughter Of Buttorpaddle,
the drayman, what dost thou know
about war;"
And it was so that when the ap.
plos were ripe they were iarer to
look upon than olhcI rrm of the
field.
And Ahpulblozm, the son of Har,
ratuthe, commanded his family that
they should not touch so much rs
ono apple.
And when fair Saturday morn>
ing was come, Ahpulblozm, tho
husbandman, tied up the dog at the
house, and went by himself and lay
down in the grass IN the orchard.
And he said, "Oi verify I will
give the boys chance"
(For he wist tberc was no school
OF Il Saturday,
And the boys came betlmes and
they climbed gently over the fence
and they swarmcd up the apple troo
as OF old.
And when they saw tte fruit that
it was iairer than any fruit of tho
field, they smacked their lips and
rcjoiccd, and said one to another,
"Oh golly,' and, alas, "Oh, | guess
/ not!' and moreover, "Yum, YUM"
But it was so that when boy
had eaten one bite Of it, that he
turned hlm round about and cri,
ed unto his fellow and said, "Of a
truth am stabbed"
But they thought he had mocked
them and they SAID, GO TO, thou
hast a devil"
And when another lad had bitten
IN apple, he was stricken with ro,
morse and said unto his follows:
"DcIiver me up while there is yat
time, for am the man who robbed
the Manhattan bank"
And they marvclcd greatly, but
AhupIblozm, the husbandman, stu If.
ed the grass Of the field into his
mouth that he might not laugh.
And third boy laid hold of an
apple and bit 1t, and when he had
crunched his bite only once he cri.
cd aloud, "Bury mo close to tho
schoolhousc" and he slid down tho
, tree and lay IN the clover and
twisted himself up and wept.
; And when yet another boy had
: plucked an apple and tasted it, he
l called unto those who were with
0 qlm: "Hclp me home, for | have
, swallowed q Fourth of J uly."
And even another boy bit INTO an
apple and it was 80 that when he
! bit, ho let 60 all hold, and fell upon
y his back in the clover, and gasped
81 pray thee, let not the medica
students carve up my body"
And when yet another lad haC
bitten an apple, he came down from
the tree and lay down by the road
= side, and sought to die but could
not.
And another lad took unto him
, self u large bite, and he clumb dowT
and went away into desert place
. and lad down on a railaoad tract
that the down express might CONF
= along and ripple over him.
q And so 1t wa, tha oil aroun
p the orchard there were lads VIII,
# were doubled up and who feared t
Q look upon zach others faces Aud
d they ate sand, and prayed the i'm
, moytaI gods that tho awful tasl,
which they tasted might die will
- them, ard not be visited upon thci
II chiIdren's children.
n And when night was come the.
got tEcm home, but when meat wa
f set bieore them they would not ea
! II.
If For of a venty,they could not tast
# the difference between the tatfeJ
h and dOg-tenncl tea.
l. And 1t was 50 that after many
N days, when one Of tho lads shoul
l. sec an apple, that he lay down anc
d had a fit.
N Ahpulolozm, the son of Harra
Il tutho, arose up out OF the grass an
n communcd withe himself aud sand
"Ho, ho."
:. And he took one of tie apple
which the lads had hitten, and hand
II ed it the sondy pig.
f And it was so that when tho san
dy pig bit it, that he looked up in
G to the face Of Ahpulblozm, the son
Q Harratutbc, and reOukcd him will
n rCproachiul expression.