Smyrna times., 1883-08-01
The Bad Boy in Mourning.
HE TELLS ABOUT THE FUNERAL AT HIS
HOUSE.

md stroked the cat the wrong way as .
he lay in the sun on the counter, on a 7
luire of manila paper. T
Cant remove the dirt for thirty 7
lays. 1t is an emblem of mourning.
Had a funeral at our house yesterday"
and the boy took pickle out of a tub
and puts it in the cats mouth, and !
then went to the show case, while the ;
grocery man, whose back had been
turned during the pickle exercise,
thought by the way the cat
jumped into the dried apple barrel and
began to paw and scratch with all four
of her feet, and yowl, that she was
going to have fit.
hadn't heard about it, said the
grocery man, as he took the cat by the
neck and tossed her out in the back
shed into an old oyster box full of saw
dust, with the parting injunction that
if she was going to have fits she better |
60 out where there was plenty of fresh |
air. Death is always Il sad thing to
contemplate. One day we are full of
health and JOY and cold victuals, and
the next we are screwed down in box,
a few words are said over cur remains,
few tears are shed, and there is a
race to see who shall get back from the
cemetery first, and though we may
think we are an important factor in
the worlds progress, and sometimes
feel as though it would be unable to put
up margins and have to stop the deal,
the world goes right along, and it must
annoy people who die to realize that
they don't count for game. The great
est man in the world is only nine
spot when he is dead, because some
body else takes the tricks the dead
man ought to have taken. But, say,
who is dead at your house,"
"Our rooster. Take care, don't you
hit me with that canvased ham" said
the boy, as the grocery man looked
mad to learn that there was nobody
dead but a rooster, when he had
preached such a sermon on the sub
ject. Eyes, how soon we are forgot
ten when we are gone. Now, you
Y would have thought that ROSTERS hen
+ would have remained faithful to him
5 for week at least. l have watched
them all the Spring, and never saw
| of hnUnfInT
a than that between the bantam rooster
II and his hen. They were constantly
e together, and there was nothing to-
:; good for her. He would dig up angle
n worms and call her, and when sh
IS came up on a gallop and saw the grea
II big worm on the ground, she woul
s. look so proud of her rooster, and h
y would straighten up and look as thoug
1t he was saying to her, Pm a daisy
le and then she would look at him as
to she would like to kiss him, and just q
s. she was going to pick up the worm b
s. would snatch it and swallow it himse
nc and chuckle and walk around full {
er business, as though wondering VIII
at she didn't take the worm after he ha
b. dug it for her, and then she would loo
ie disappointed at first, and then sh
al would look resigned as much as to sa,
Id Worms are too rich for my blood an,
o. way, and the poor, dear rooster neeC
In them more than do, because he has
lie do all the GROWING and she would c
IT, off and find a grasshopper and eat it {
III the sly for fear he would see her al
It's complain because she didn't divid
re Oh, have never seen anything tn
an seemed to nae so human as the rel
nd tions between that rooster and he
ms He seemed to try to do everything
ne her. But ! was disgusted with hi
IT. when the poor hen was setting. III
re- first week that she sat ON the eggs
'er seemed to get along first rate, becau
10 he had a couple of flower beds to d
ny up, which pressof business had caus
'ne him to neglect before, and a couple
en- neighbor's gardens to destroy, so
ry' seemed glad to have his hen retire
up her boudoir and set, but after he HI
Fai been shoOed out of the gardens a
asG flower beds he seemed to be nervo
up and evidently wanted to be pett'
zed and he would go near the hen and g
would seem to tell him to go and ia
a walk around the block, because s
lish hadn't time to leave her business, a
to if she didn't attend to it they wOl
tate have a lot of spoiled eggs on tn
i'm. hand, and no family to bring up.
ON would scold, and seem to tell her Il
He it was all foolishness, that for his p
mel he didn't want to hear q lot of chick
ant squawking around. He would Sc
he to argue with her that a brood of chi
the ems would be dead give-way on th
the both, and they would at once be clas
as old folks, while if they were all
in the world they would be Spr
rld's chickens, and could go in young soci'
aow but the hen would scold back, and
lder him he ought to be ashamed of him
cou- to talk that way, and he would go
pro- nad and sulk around spell, and t
hich go to a neighbours hen-house aud so
an times he wouldn't come back till
next day, The hen would be sorry
aries had spoken SO cross, and would 81
sSys avs panied at his going away and We
apers look anxiously for his return,
when he came back after being ou
,;u,,. the rain all night, she would be so
-, tous after his health, and tell hin
~. - ought to wrap something around
.n but he acted as though he didn't
- for his health, and he would go.
- again and get chilled through. Fin
~ the hen come off the nest with
chickens, and the rooster seemed !
were proud, and when anybody came OF
b, fat look at them he would crow, and S
to say they were all his chick