The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-06
BAL BOY IN MOURNING.
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"Why don't you take an ice pick and
tlean the dirt out from under your
niger nails" said the grocery man to
he bad boy, as he came in the store
ind stroked the cat the wrong way as
he lay in the sun on the counter, on a
uire of manila paper.
"Can't remove the dirt for thirty
avs. 1t is an emblem of mourning.
lad a funeral at our house yesterday"
ind the boy took a pickle out of a tub
nd put it in the cats mouth, and then
vent to the show case, while the gro
cry man, whose back had been turned
uring the pickle exercise, thought by
he way the cat jumped into the dried
pple barrel and began to paw and
cratch with all four of her feet, and
owl, that she was going to have a fit.
81 hadn't heard about it, said the
rocery man, as he took the cat by the
eek and tossed her out in the back
he'd into an old oyster box full ofsaw-
ust. with a parting injunction that if
he was going to have fits she better
o out where there was plenty of fresh
If. death is always a sad thing to
|pntemplate. One day we are full of
ealth and Joy and cold victuals, and
he next we are screwed down in a
OK, a few words are said over u re-
hains, a few tears are shed. and there
a raco to see who shall get back
rom the cemetery first, and though we
bay think we are an important factor
the worlds progress, and sometimes
pei as though it would be unable to
ut up margins and have to stop the
ZEAL, the world goes right along, andiS
bust annoy people who die to realize
bat they don't count for game. The
~reatest mar in the world is only a
%ine-spot when he is dead, because
Pmebody else takes the tricks the dead
ban ought to have taken. But, say.
no is dead at your house?"
"Our rooster. Take care, don't you
pit me with that canvased ham," said
be boy, as the grocery man looked mad
p learn that there was nobody dead
ut a rooster, when he had preached
lch a sermon on the subject. Eyes,
low soon we are forgotten when we
Pre- gone. Now, you would have
bought that ROSTERS hen would have
fmained faithful to him for a week at
last. L have watched them all the
bring, and I never say a more perfect
lecture of devotion than that between
be bantam rooster and his hen. They
Tere constantly together, and there
|as nothing too good for her. He
Tould dig up angle worms and call
Ter, and when she came up on a gallop
hd saw the great big worm on the
round, she would look so proud of her
poster, and he would straighten up and
Rok as though he was saying to her,
I'm a daisy and then she would look
7 him as if she would like to kiss him,
md just as she was going to pick up the
FORM he would snatch it and swallow
himself, and chuckle and walk
round and be full of business, as
hough wondering why she didn't take
be worm after he had dug it for her,
nd then the hen would look disap-
|ointed at first, and then she would
Pok resigned as much as to say,
Worms are too rich for my blood
hyway, and the poor. dear rooster
eedS them more than 1 do, because he
las to do all the growing and she
fould go off and find a grasshopper
nd eat it OF the sly for fear he would
Re her and complain because she
fdn't divide. Oh, l have never seen
pything that seemed to me so human
+ the relations between that rooster
hd hen. He seemed to try to do
Eerything for her. But l was dis
listed with him when the poor hen
as setting. The first week that she
ft on the eggs he seemed TO get along
fst rate, because he had a couple of
Pwcr beds to dig up, which a press of
~lsiness had caused him to neglect be-
pre-, and a couple of neighbor's gardens
! destroy, so he seemed to be glad to
hve his hen retire to her boudoir and
pit, but after he had been shOoed out
the gardens and flower bells he
femed to be nervous, and evidently
anted to be petted, and he would 90
far the hen and she would seem to
I'll him to 60 and take a walk around
be block, because she hadn't time to
ave her business, and if she didn't
tend to it they would have a lot Of
boiled eggs on their hand, and no
Emily to bring up. He would scold,
hd seem to tell her that it was all
Polishness, that for his part he didn't
ant to hear a lot of chickens squawk-
g around. He would seem to argue
18th her that a brood of chickens
|ould be a dead give-away on them
bth, and they would at once be classed
! old folks, while if they were alone
the world they would lie spring
dickens, and could 60 in young society,
|It the hen would scold back, and tell
m he ought to be ashamed of him.
Flf to talk that way, and he would go
# mad, and sulk around a spell, and
en- go to a neighbours hen-hOuse and
Bmetimes he wouldn't come back till
e next day. The hen would be sorry
be had spoken so cross, and would seem
fined at his going away and would
ok anxiously for his return, and when
came back after being out in thu
i'm all night, she would be SOLICITORS