Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-06-16
hIustaplta.
HOW HE TOOK HIS VACATION, AND
WHAT CAME OF 1T.


Burdetto in the Burlington Hawkeye.
Now in the sixth month ID the region
of the good Caliph, it vas so that
Mustapha said: I am wearied with
much work; thought, care and worry
have worn out; need repose, for the
hand of exhaustion is upon me, and
death even DOW heth at the door,
And he called bis physician, who
felt Of his pulse and looked upon bis
tongue and said:
'Twodollahs y (For this was the oath
by which all physicians swore.) 'Ofa
verify thou must have rest. Flee unto
the valley ofquiet and close thine eyes
in dreamful rest, hold back thy brain
from thought and the hand from labor
Or you will be a candidate for the
asylum in three weeks
And he heard him and went cut and
put the business in the hands of the
clerk and went away to rest in the
valley of quiet. Now, his Uncle Ben's
whom he had not seen for 10! these
fourteen years. Now, his Uncle Ben
was q farmer, aud abode in the valley
of rest, and the mountains Of repose
rose round about him. And he was
rich and we'll favored and strong as an
OK and healthy as an onion crop
Oitimes he bOasted unto his neighbors
that there was not a lazy bone i'll his
BODY, and he swore that he hated lazy
man.
And Mustapha wist not that it was
so.
But whom he reached his Uncle
Ben's, they received him with great joy
and placed before him supper OF
homely viands, we'll cooked, and piled
~ on his plate like the wreck of a box
car. And when he could not eat it all,
they laughed him to scorn.
And after supper they sat up with
him and talked with HIM about relatives
whereof he had never, in all his life, so
much as heard. And he answered their
questions at random, and he'd unto them
protesting to know Uncle Ezra and
Aunt Bethesda, aud once he said he
had letter from Uncle George last
week.
Now, they all knew that Uncle
George was shot in a nelghhor's sheep
pen three years ago, but Mustapha wist
not that it was so, and he was sleepy,
and only talked to fill up the time. And
then they talked politics 10 him. and he
hated politics. So about O'Clock in
the morning they sent him to bed.
Now The spare room wherein he slept
was right under the roof, and there
were ears and bundles of ears of seed
corn hung from the rafters aud he bung.
ed his eyes with the same, and he
hooked his chain in festoons of dried
apples, and shook dried herbs and seeds
down his back as ke walked along, foy
il was dark: And when he sat up in
bed in the night lie ran scythe in his
car.
And it was, that the four boys SLEPT
with him, for the bed was wide. And
they were restless and slumbered cross
wise and kicked, so that Mustapha
slept not wink that night, neither
closed he his eyes.
And about the fourth hour after mid
night his Uncle Ben smote him on the
back, and spake unto him, saying:
Awake, arise, rustic out of this ant
wash your face, for the liver aud bacon
is fried and the break fast waiteth. Yos
will find the we'll down at the other enc
of the COW lot. Take towel witt
you''
When they had eaten his Uncle Ber
spake unto him, saying: Come, let US
stroll around the farm
And they walked about eleven miles
And his uncle Ben sat HIM upon
wagon and taught him how to load hay
Then they drove into the barn and he
taught him 10 unload it. Then they
girded up their loins and walked fou
miles. even into the forest. and his
uncle Ben taught him how to chol
wood, and they walked back to supper
And the morning and the evening were
the first day, and mustapha wished tina
he were dead.
Aud after supper his Uncle Bel
spake onse more, and SAID 4: Come lei
us have some fun And so the,
hooked up a team and drove nne mile
down TO Belcher's branch, where there
was hop. And they danced until th'
second hour in the morning.
When the next day was come, which
wasn't long, for already the night wa
far spent, his Uncle Ben took HIM gu
and taught him how TO make rail lence
And that night there was a wedding
and they danced and made merry an'
drank and ate, and when they went u
bed at 3 o clock Mustapha prayed tina
death might come to him before break
| fast time.
But breakfast had an early start AM
cot there first. And his Uncle Bel
took him dewn to the creek and taught
him how to wash aud shear sheep. An
when the evening was come they wen
to spelling school, and they got hom'
at the first hour after midnight, an
lIJncle Ben marveled that it was so early
| And he lighted his pipe and sat up 10
an hour, and told Mustapha all abou
| the forty he bought last spring oil oi
Mosey Stringer TO finish out that mort
n IL NU