The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-05-25

great Nimrod, ran about in a pair of
huge top boots, shot himself with both
barrels through the brim of his hat be-
fore the eyes of the whole squadron, and
then went partridge shooting as if moth
ing had happened.
swell, was then quartermaster and
acted as mother to the whole squadron,
kept the key of the stronghold and
could accommodate the officers by max
ing advances, so they often took me with
them when they went out hunting and
was tired enough of running about, for
got nothing but weary legs.
well, my little captain and l went
together, and I was clever enough to keep
three steps behind, for thought, Your
calves and what are over them are not
his hat brim.' My little captain called
logged him, pulled his ears, made him
seek and carry, and went through so
many performances with him that even
a dog with an angels patience would
have lost its wits. Ponto at last became
so giddy that he ran when he ought to
have pointed and pointed when he ought
to have run, and the captain fired and
missed, blamed Ponto and wanted to kill
the poor dog. I pitied the creature and
said:
The dog is young, captain, it hasn't
been trained enough yet; let me have it,
and will give you this bowl-pipe. See,
there's the famous city of Criwitz in
Mecklenburg painted on it; this on the
left is the church-tower, and these little
Jumps on the right are the vineyards.
"He had large collection of pipe
DO wls-that knew-snd on some were
Vienna and Ofen and Trieste, but he
hadn't one with Criwitz, SO it was some
thing new to him and he made the ex-
change.
"Then we went home, he smoking his
new pipe. As we entered the Peterwar-
dein gate, 1 felt so tickled, that I said:
Captain, do you know what you're really
smoking?'
"He looked at me in puzzled way,
and answered: "A pipe
emo said I, "a glass coach with four
horses, and showed him what he had
made by his swapping.
Gle took the glass coach and four. the
oalash with two horses, the gray with the
ten devils, the young dog, and the pipe
with the city of Criwitz and all her vine
yards and smashed the whole on stone,
saying: Then I'll get rid of the trump
cry
$50 he lived on until he hadn't even a
trihe to smash on stone, and all his
troubles came from his love of new things
and his swapping"
So saying, my mothers brother, Uncle
Matthies rose, and when I ducked again
on account of the moral, said:
9TH let you of this time, but look
carefully at the broken trash you've
taken for your beautiful rabbit, and as
for Aunt Rumpler's terriers puppy mark
the old proverb: What comes after,
the wolf bites"
With these words he went out of the
gate.
1 stood there, looking at my treasures,
perceived had been a great simpleton,
and from that hour never snapped any
thing again; but the love of something
new" fingered long time-a long, long
time. Many follies, many hardships
have come from that egg. Well. I be-
lieve I've done with them; now new
boots pinch me, a new coat squeezes me
and new faces annoy me. wish I was
sitting under the old apple tree again
hearing the old stories, and my uncle
Matthies could again give me q memento.
/ would heed it more now.-From the
of Eri{1 Ronfar