Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-01-27
Our Young Folks.
a TALE oHAS9 4

eG&zs &AxX~DOctOr Ben
Brought out his globe. at half-past ten,
And lectured. giving conclusive reasons
For tides. eclipses, chimes and seasons;
iii, weary at last. went to bed,
With a tumble of wonderful things in my
head
Moons and comets and meteorites,
Globes and circles and polar nights;
And there lay thinking,
At something-a Ry-thro' my bedcfta1es
Too Srsss for star, and growing lin
EsS n ! tse MOON lighted chamae yet 6tsr.
II gased from the EASEMENT e
And wondereds WITH ever-increasing emAAe-
What the look of alarm on the Moons frown-
ing face meant.
For there wasthe Noon, and, strange to say,
There. toe, zwAs theEarth, just over the way,
Like the Doctors globe, or huge balloon,
Forty times larger, perhaps, than the Moon,
All covered with circles, and looming in
There ss we're groups upon Il sndsusry tseeN
Vas TUNED ono Way; and Very D1SI jolntef
Telescopes atfhe sky were pofnted -
And there, with a terrible rushing and hum
And Kissing of breath, was Comet a-coming!
So long and so queer, and as it came nearer
1t grew every moment longer and queerer!
Until made out such a comical chap,
In a red-hannel coat with a very long flap.
His nose peerinAoutarom very ciosscap
FL Ssssa; rs fsr 'seas sd Sf
On, on he sped. through the regions of space,
With very short legs at a very long pace.
His well-filled knapsack dashed on his back.
Extra shoes and canteen strapped under his
pack,
His coat-tail flying away on his track
Entangled far off in the Pleiades,
On the horns of the Bull and Orion's knees
M %aS Ha d f ii9s / aa.e,A ~
sasea wes ns ffwd been tse essk
land Whist can sober Comet be thinking"
The Earth, SliEs astarses hung right in his
The groups were beginning to hurry about
And hustlean bustie and signal aud about, J
And the Moon looked scared whileI shrieked
"Dearsir,I beg pardon. don't know your
Ipray you'll consider, and il ne the same ;
TO you, heres planet! DON'T tn1nk you
y kpe BUD 4 siE tswnreS III
If you ~, viii drive round it instead of right thro'
He put up his head with stupeaed stare,
And says he, ~ DECLARE!
No, wasn't aware!
And I'm going at such n deuce of rate
I'd stop if Icould but I fear it's too late!
Bless my starsi here ami He had just time
Sf0OD.t
When through it, head-foremost, he went at a
Asa esSSs rider dives through ahoop! LIS
With crash,
And a smash,
r And a roar a5of thunder
III H ltsn1SSfsens s&}EL
And flew asunder;
While has and b sdh is
The Comet came out on the other side:
Wheeled round, swore loud, and ruefully eyed
The ruin; sneezed two or three times; then
His long tail after him down the blue. ou Il 90
This does beat everything under the suni -
don't care the wink of STAR said he, 20 ..1s
T" For all the damage done to me- rad "a
Carefully brushing away the dirt saGit Z
From his coat and its stained and draggled
"But IocltI OF this dear little, queer little
I've d pan f3e ines, for her am, van n -
Is quite too badI The fairest of creatures
How well remember her pleasant features, a
The smile on her face and the light in her eye,
When I've touched my hat to her, hurrying
Many a time on my way through the skyi
I'd mend the poor thing il could-and I'll
tryv'
val How .sub be SGT Ts. i; 9. where Ell ?, lb
But thereupon he drew up chair, q .oca
Hung his long coat-tail over the back, III d. 4.
Sat down by the pieces and opened hts pack.
Brought forth from its depths a stout needle
And there he sat squirting and scratching his
AS if rather doubtfully questioning whether !.
Twas possible ever to patch her together!
Meanwhile-bnt how can Ih9pe to tell 20
Half that to my friends befell -
On the'shattered and scattered shelf Tea -
How depict the huge surprise y. at-y s5'..z.. /
astonishing
of their real estate shot or in the skies2
How dHs ef the aynf
The breaking Of banks, and the stopping Of
And ali the various knocks and shocks
Frantic reporters rushing about, @'4+' gre
And correspondents setting out stz1 d. II
In big balloon, intending from 1t 80 o.. -.s
To interview our friend the COmetI -e'
While the wide-awake daily press unfurled
Its rival bulletins: :. END or THE WoRIDu a
FULL PARTICuLARsi CANADA HURLED ..i
OVER NEW ENGLANDl THE UNION sPIrrliI
INTERRUPTION OF TRAVEL AND TRADE.
THE COMET COMING TO OUR ADJ 30 500 =
For now the Comet-odd to seei -. 49,,
Although it didn't seem odd to me- Vi
The shattered globe, was cheerfuily doing
All he could to restore the ruin;
Patiently replacing all ~ h.f
Stitching here and sticking there,
With hopeful smile and a satisfied afr,
... /.
When all was done, with a dexterous tw1rl
OF his fingers, he set It once more a-whirl,
While the Moon looked pleased as q smiling
- girl. ~.
OF he sped; and the planet spun is1,.t f,,a
Away on its axis round the sun;
when watching with curious eyes. I found
He hadn't made it precisely round! ii y, se
The zones, moreover. were strangely mixed;
Constant inople was squeezed betwfxt
st. Petersburg and Baltimore; st4B 10 d.
South Carolina and Labrador
To Massachusetts were snugly tied: p t'
New York and Paris were side by side:
And, oldest of all earthly fates, -f.- ,.
England was in the United Statesl
Greenland the couldn't have made greater 4
Nistake) was on the new equator! ~.
While in each crack of the crust some bit
OF broken China was made to tit .z.t-.i5 .
Whereupon cried, with a Wild halo,
:. Held on come backl this never will d07 u
Just see what a botch you've NADER Before
He had time to turn, with olang and roar,
And II glare or ITS own great Cyclops eye
The Lightning Express went whizzing by II
III With n rush of steam, ar
20. And howl and n scream.
That walked me from my curious dream:
Which the Doctor AYERS land ne makes IL
Must all have passed through my busy brain
With the passing of the midnight train
n - ~. T. Troio5rtdgc, In Wtde-Aicdkc.