Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-06-14
Animals


an insect, OF course. nor a snake, but a
pice kind of animal, like an elephant Or
dog with good master.
Animals are awfully intelligent. bat
they haven't any souls. There was
once an elephant IN a circus, and one
day boy said TO him: Want a lump
of sugar, old fellow?' The elephant he
nodded, and felt real grateful, for ele-
phants are very fond of lump-sugar,
which Is what they live on in their na-
tive forests. Bat the boy pat a cigar
instead of lump Of sugar in his mouth.
The sagacious animal. instead Of cat
Ing up the cigar or trying 10 smoke 1t,
aud making himself dreadiuly sick,
took il and carried ii across the circus
to a man who kept candy and cigar
stand. and made signs that he'd sell the
cigar tor twelve lumpi oF sugar. The
man gave the elephant the sugar and
took the cigar, and then the intelligent
anlnal sat down On his hind hgs and
laughed at the boy who had tried to
play joke on him, until the boy telt
that much ashamed ihat he went right
home and went to bed.
In the days when there were fairies,
only don't believe there eyer were
any fairies, aud Mr. Travers says they
were rubbish boys were frequently
changed into animals. There was once
boy who did something that made a
wicked fairy angry, and she changed
him into a ca, aud thought she had pun-
lshed him dreadfully. But the boy af.
ter he was cat used 10 come and get
on her back fence aud y0wl as if be
was ten or twelve cats all night long,
and she couldn't sc. wink Of sleep
and fell into fever, and had to take
lots of castor oil and dreadful me d.
cines.
So she sent for the boy who was ca t
yon understand, and said she'd change
him back again. But he said 'Ol TO;
I'd mnch rather be cat, for Pm SO
foud of singing on the back fence And
the end of it was that she lad to give
him tremendous pile Of money before
he'd consen. to be chan, ed back intO
boy again.
Boys eau play being animals, and it's
great fun, only the other boys &ho
don't play they are animals get punish
ed for it, and l say its unjust, especial
" as l never meant auy harm at all
and was doing my very best to amuse
the children.
This is the way It happened. Aunt
Sarah came to see Us the other day, and
brought her three boys with her. don't
think you ever heard Of Aunt Sarah.
and | wish l never had. She's one OF
fathers slsters, and he thinks 4 great
deal more OF her than | would If she
was my sister, aud | don't think rs
much credit to any body to be sister
anyway. The boys are twins, that Is,
two OF them are, and they are all about
three or four years old.
Well, one day just before Christmas,
when it was almost as warm oat doors
as it is IN summer, Aunt Sarah said
Jimmy. I want you to take the dear
children out aud amuse them a few
hours. know you're go fond OF your
dear little cousins and what iue maui
ly boy you are = So took them out,
though | didn't want to waste any Iime
with little children, for ~ e arc respon
siblo for wasting time. aud ought to use
every minute TO improve ourselves.
The boys wanted to see the pigs that
belong to Mr.. Taylor, who lives next
door, so [ took them through hole in
the fence, and they looked at the pigs,
and one OF them said.
Ca my how sweet they are and how
[ would like to be a little pig and never
DC washed aud have lots Of swIll =
% said: why don't you play you
are pigs, aud crawl round aud grunI !?
rs Just as easy, III look at you.
You see, | thonght | ought to amuse
them, and that this would be a nice way
to teach them 10 amuse themselves.
~ ell, they got dove on all tours aud
rau round asd granted, until they be-
san 10 yet lired OF il, and then wanted
to know What else pigs could do, so l
told them that pi4s generally rolled IN
the aud. aud The more tnul Il pig could
get ON himself th; happier ne would be,
aud that there "a3 mud-puddie Ia
our back yard that would make a Pr
cry like u child with delight. Tue boJs
went straight TO that mub-puddle, anc
they rolled in the mud until there
wasn't an luch Of them that wasn''
covered with mud 80 thick that Joa
would have to get crog bar 10 pry II
off
Just then Aunt Sarah came 10 The
door and callel them, and wncE SHE
saw them she SAID; Good gracious
what on Garth have you been doing ?
and Tommy, that's the oldest boy
said
We've been playing we were pigs
ma, and it's real fln, and wasn't JIM
my good to show us how p
think they bad TO boil the boys ii
not water before they could get The nu'
of. aud lheir clo.h-s have all got to b'
= sent to the poor people out Vest who. &
things were all lost IN The great h)oIs
If you believe II, never got Ihs leAs
bit of t1auks lJr showing the boys how
r to amuse themselves, but Aunt Sirai
said that I'd get something when fAth
er came home, aud she wasn't mIslak
en-. I'd rather not mehiiOa what II wa
.t., I ont Inn I cot A mDstly on tl