The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-10-05
FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.
The Two Little Teachers.

Louis was eating his breakfast cakes one
morning, when mother went to the door to SEE
about the milk
sLouis," she said, as she came in, 81 saw
model of the suspension bridge out on the enc
of the front porch"
Louis had seen the Brooklyn bridge, wher
he was in New York, and the workmeu far ur
and out among the wires, looking like spiders
in web, and he had quite curiosity to sec
the model of such a structure. So. Of course,
he ran out, and papa walked along, too, tc
have look at the long SPIDERS web stretched
from one post to the other, holding drop Of
moisture from the fog in the center.
.9That was what suggested tho suspension
bridge to Sir Samuel Brown" said mother, as
they sat down again at table, Gle was walk
just like this. studying how to build CHEAP
bridge across the Tweed. Right across his
path, as il to stop his progress. hung little
SPIDERS rope, heavy with dew. sWhy not make
a bridge like that, and hang it on ropes OF
chains?' he thought The more he studied il
sion bridges were invented, and have become
such a great success The little spider was the
teacher God sent to give a lesson to the great
engineer"
"Another great inventor" said papa,
"learned lesson from an insect not half SO
ship worm that taught Sir L Brunei how to
build his Thames tunnel. He saw how the little
creature, with his shield upon his head, per-
forated the hard wood, now in this
direction and now in that and when his
track was made he covered all the sides with
large scale, he built shield. under which he
the river, and so his great tunnel was built"
Papa took from cabinet in the room bit Of
ships timber that had been riddled BY this lit
tie borer, and showed it to Louis, and pointed
out the fact that however close the walls lay
to each other, they never ran into each other.
1t was quite little lesson in philosophy for .
seven-year-old, but the web and the specimen
helped to impress it quite deeply on his mem.
DRY. When he saw spiders rope bridge ever
after, he would be quite apt to think of the
valuable invention which it once suggested
A Brave Chinese Baby.
He WAS little more than baby, certainly not
more than three or four years old; and the
queer wide clothes he wore made him look 80
Short at first sight, it seemed q miracle he
could walk at all He was all alone in the
house in fact he was all alone in the village
the door locked, aud al, all the people
ment, to be sure, for four year-old
boy to be left in! The more think of it
the more think he was one of the very
bravest fellows ever born. Many man has
got a great name for being hero without
having shown half tho courage that this
little chap did when he toddled into the street
to meet US.
1t WAS Chinese fishing village, on the shore
Of the Pacific ocean, few miles from Monte
rey, in California There are several such
villages on that coast, and, to Americans, they
are very curious places to See.
The door OF the brave baby's house stood
wide open, and, as coon as he heard the sound
Of our carriage wheels, he came running TO see
what was coming. We stopped the carriage
and got out He looked at us for minute
with . steady gaze, then turned around, and
waddled back as fast as his fat little legs would
carry him into the dark recesses of his
house. We thought he had run away to hide.
Not q bit Of it In few seconds, back he
came, holding up to US big abslone shell,
tightly grasped in both his chubby hands;
then he laid it on o bench by tho door, waddled
back, got another, brought it out and laid it
down; then still another.
In all the houses in the fishing villages there
are great baskets Of these abalone shells kept to
sell to travellers, and the baby had, no doubt,
often seen his pother bring them out and Offer
might be what We had come for. As ne hello
queer, narrow, slanting little eyes on US with
an expression Of anxiety and inquiry that wa.
pathetic Whom he saw that we did not wan
he shells, he went back again. still farther int
the recesses of the cabin, aid, bringing out
tin dipper with little water in it, offered tina
to ua,