The Red Cloud chief., 1882-06-22

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ded. and felt real grsse.ul. for eiephais
IRE very foad II lsmp-sugar. ~hich Il
what they live OF In their native forests.
Bat the hoy put . cigar instead Of a
lump of sugar IN his mouth.
The sagacious animal. instead of eat
ing up the cigar Or trying To smoke IL.
and making himself drcsdtully sick.
took IL and carried it scross the circus
81 \ man who kept q candy and cigar
stand. and made signs that he'd sell the
cigar for twelve Jumps - ~ The
q gave the elephant the sugar and
took the cigar. and then the intelligent
animal sat down on his hind legs and
laughed ~ the boy who had tried to
play a Joke on him. until the boy felt
that much ashamed that he went right
home and went TO bel.
I'm the days when there were fairies
only ! don't believe there ever were
any fairies. and Mr.. Travers says they
were rubbish-boys were frequently
changed into animals. There was once
a boy who did something that made a
wicked fairy. angry. and she changed
him into a cat. and thought she had
punished him d~readfully. But the boy
after he was a cat used To come and get
on her back fence and yowi as il he was
ten or twelve eats all night long, and
she couldn't get a wink Of sleep. and
fell into n fever. and had To take lots of
castor oil and dreadful medicines.
SO she m for the boy who was q eat.
you understand. and said she'd change
him back again. But he szid: "Oh
no; I'd much rather be "a eat. for I'm so
fond OF singing on the back fence"
And the end of ii was that she had TO
give him a tremendous pile Of money
before he'd consent to b. changed back
into a boy again.
Boys can play being animals. and it's
great fun. only the other boys who don't
play they are animals get punished for
IL, and | say it's unjust, especially as l
never meant any harm at all and was
doing my very best to amusc the chill
dren.
This Is the way it happened. Aunt
Sarah came to see II 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 sisters, and he thinks a
great deal more Of her than | would il
she was my sister, and ! don't think it's
much credit to anybody To be a sister
anyway. The boys are twins. that is.
W. 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 outdoors
rs il is I'm summer, Aunt Sarah said:
Jimmy, l want YOU to take the dear
children out and amuse them a few
hours. I know you're SO fond of your
dear little cousins and what q fine manly |
boy you arer' So / took them oui,
/ didn't want To waste my time
with little children. for we are RESPONSE
bic for wasting time. and ought 10 Use
every minute TO improve ourselves.
The boys wanted to see the pigs that
to Mr.. Taylor. who lives next
door, SO / took them through n hole i'm
the fence, and they looked at the pigs,
and one of them said:
"Oh my how sweet they are and how
| would like to be a little pig and never
be washed and have lots Of swill!''
Sol said: "Why don't you play you
are pigs, and crawl round and grunt?
It's just rs easy. and III look at YOU"
You see. ] thought I ought to amuse
hem, and that this would be a nice way
20 teach them To muse themselves.
Well, they got down on all fours and
an round and grunted. until they be-
gan to get tired of it, and then wanted
% know what else pigs could do. SO |
old them that pigs generally rolled in
he mud. and the more mud a pig could
ret on himself the happier he would be.
that there was a mud-plddle in our
,ack yard that would make n pig cry
ike a child with delight.
The boys vents straight to that mud
and they rolled in the mud un-
il there wasn't an inch of them that
covered with mud so thick that
would have to get a crowbar 10 pry
t off.
Just then Aunt Sarah came to the
loOr and called them, and when she saw
hem she said: GOOD gracious. what
m earth have you been doing?" and
that's the oldest boy. said:
We've been playing we were pigs.
M, and it's real fun, and wasn't Jimmy
rood to show us how?"
l think they had to boil the boys in
lot water before they could get the mud
II. and their clothes have all got to be
ent 10 the poor people out West whose
hings were all lost in the great foods.
( you'll believe it. l never got the least
'it Of thanks for showing the BOYS how
o amuse themselves, but Aunt Sarah
aid that I'd get something when father
anne home. and she wasn't mistaken.
ID rather not mention what il was that
got but l got il mostly on the legs.
nd l think bamboo canes ought not to !
'e sold to fathers any more than poi
was going to tell why l should like
o be An animal; but as it is getting late,
must close. Jimmy Brown," IN
farper's foung People. /
The Coming Great Comet. /