Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-08-10

Trimmed in Mourning for Thirty Bays
Had n Funeral at His Housc Filtration
of neceased's Rrst Friend

| Trimmed in Mourning for Thirty pays
Had Funeral at His Housc Filtration
| of neceased's Rcst Friend
Why don't You take an ice pick
and clean the dirt ont from under
your finger nalls?" said the grocery
man to the bad boy. as he came in the
store and stroked the eat the wrohg
way, as She lay in the sur on the
counter. on quire OF manila paper
Cant remove the dirt for thirty
days. 1t is an emblem of mourning.
Had funeral at our house yester
day and the boy took a pickle out Of
a tub and put it i'll the eats mouth,
and shut her teeth together on it, and
then went to the show case. while the
groceryman, 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.
y Ii tllHt't heard ahetat It. It :, said tie
2roceryman, rs he took the cat by the
neck and tossed her out III the back
shed into an old oyster box full of
sawdust. with the parting injunction
that if she was going to have fits she
better go ont where there was plenty
of fresh air. death is always sad
thing to contemplate. One day we
are full of health and Joy. and cold
victuals, and the next We are screwed
down in q box. few words are said
over our remains, few tears are
shed, and there is race to see who
shall get back from the cemetery first.
and though we may think we are an
important factor in the worlds pro
gress, 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 greatest
man in the world is only n nine spot
when he is dead, because somebody
else takes the tricks the dead man
ought to have taken. But, say, who
is dead at your house,"
"Our rooster. Take care, dou't YOU
hit me with that canvassed ham" ="
said the boy. as tho groceryman
looked mad to learn that there was
nobody dead but rooster, when he
had preached such a sermon on the
subject. Yes, how soon we are for
gotten when We are gone. Now, you
would have thought that ROSTERS
hen would have remained faithful to
him for a week. at least. / have
watched them all the spring, and |
never saw more perfect picture of
devotion than that between the ban
tam rooster and his hen. They were
constantly together, and there was
nothing too good for her He would
dig up and angle worm and call her.
and when she came up on gallop
) and saw the great big worm on the
ground, she would look so proud of
her rooster, and he would siraighten
up and look as though he was saying
to her, I'm n daisy and then she
would look at him as if she would
like to bite him, and just as she was
going to pick up the worm he would
snatch it and swallow it himself, and
, chuckle and walk around, and be full
of business, rs though wondering why
she didn't take the worm after he had
} dug it for her. and then the hen
would look disappointed at first. and
> then she would look resigned. as
J much as to say. " orms are too rich
, for my blood, anyway, and the poor
dear rooster needs them more than !
i do, because he has to do all the crow
ing and she would go off and find a
grasshopper and eat it on the sly fo1
: fear he would see her and complain
/ because she didn't divide. o, l have
| never seen anything that seemed tc
l me so human es the relations between
5 that rooster and hen. He seemed tt
: try to do everything for her He
would make her stop cackling wher
: she laid an egg, and he would try t.
! cackle, and crow over it as though ht
had laid it, and she would get off il
: a corner ard cluck in modest, retir
e ing manner, as though she wished t.
V convey the idea to the servant girls il
V the kitchen that the rooster had to dc
/ all the hard work, and she was only
: useless appendage, fit only for SO
| ciety and company for him. But
o was disgusted with him when ,th,
d poor hen was setting. The first weel
g that she sat on the eggs he seemed t,
d get along first-rate. because he had
couple of flower beds to dig up, whicI
: press of business had caused him t.
= neglect before, and a couple of neigh
e bors' gardens to destroy, so lie SCENE,
( to be glad to have his hen retire t
i her boudoir and set, but after he ha,
l. been shooed out of the gardens an
O. tiower-beds he seemed to be nervous
Is and evidently wanted to be pstteC
and he would go near the hen and sh
'd would seem to tell him to 60 an
v take a walk around the block, becaus
c. she hadn't time to leave her business
Of and if she didn't attend to it the
le would have a lot of spoiled eggs o
" their hand, and no family to bring NJ
le lie would scold and seem to tell he
IL that it was all foolishness, that fc
e his part he didn't want to hear Il
At of chickens squaking around H
at would seem to argue with her that
brood of chickens would be a dea
ut give away on them both, and the
ne would at once be classed as old folk
~ while if they were alone in the worl
er they would be spring chickens, an
to could go in young society, but Il
is. hen would scold back, and tell hi
he ought to be ashamed of himself
nd talk that way. and he would go c
Mt mad. and sulk around a spell, al
be then go to a neighbor's hen-hous
and sometimes he wouldn't con
Mt, back till the next day. The h'
cit would be sorry she had spoken
cross, and would seem panied at h
of going away and would look anxious
no for his return, and when he car