Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-05
FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS.
The Two Little Teachers

lnG Two I-tGgle 1eacnorS.
Louis was eating his breakfast cakes one
morning, when mother went to the door to see
about the milk.
'cLonis," sho said, as she came in, II saw a
model of the suspension bridge out on the end
Of the front porch"
Louis had seen the Brooklyn bridge, when
he was in New York. and the workmea far up
and out among the wires looking like spiders
in web, and he bad quite curiosity to see
the model Of such q structure So, of course,
have look at the long SPIDERS web stretched
from one post to the other, holding drop Of
moisture from the fog in the center.
sThat was what suggested the suspension
bridge to Sir Samuel Brown, " said mother, as
they sat down again at table. "He was walk
ing along his garden path one dewy morning
just like this, studying how to build cheap
bridge across the Tweed. Right across his
path, as if to stop his progress. hung a little
spiders rope, heavy with dew. why not make
bridge like that, and hang it on ropes or
chains:' he thought. The moro he studied it
over the palmer grew the plan, and 80 suspen-
siou bridges were invented, and have become
such great success. the little spider was the
teacher God sent to give lesson to tho 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-
fora1ed 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 q shield, under which he
the river, and so his great tunnel was built"
Papa took from cabinet in the room q bit of
ships timber chat had been rddled by this lit
tic borer, and showed it to Louis, and pointed
to each other, they never ran into each other.
It was quite d little lesson in philosophy for
seyan-year- old, but the web aud the specimen
helped to impress it quite deeply on his men,
ory When he saw a spiders rope bridge ever
after, he would be quite apt to think of the
A Brave Chinese Baby.
He was little more than baby, certainly not
more than three or four years old; and tho
queer wide clothes he wore made him look go
short, at first sight, it seemed miracle he
could walk at all He was all alone in the
house !; in fact he was all alone in the village
gone away fish ing What a predica-
ment, to be sure, for a our-year-old
boy to be left in! The more I think of it,
Guo AluE0 lllluh u6 WAS QUO Oh Inc very
bravest fellows ever born. Many a man has
got great name for being hero without
having shown half the courage that this
little chap did when he todlled into the street
to meet us.
It was Chinese fishing village, on the shore
Of the Pacific ocean, a few miles from Monte
reg, 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 att 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 abalone shelf,
tightly grasped in both his chubby hands;
then he laid it on bench by the door, waddled
back, got another, brought it out and laid it
down; then still another. X RI n. a -
In all the houses in the fishing villages there
are great baskets of these abalone shells kept 10
sell to travellers, and the baby had. no doubt
often seem his mother bring them out and offer
them to people passing by. So he thoughtthey
might be what We had come for. As ne held
out shell after shell toward us, he fixed his
queer, narrow, slanting little eyes on Us with
an expression of anxiety and inquiry that was
patheuc. sf When he saw that we did not want
be shells. he went back again. still farther into
the Tecesses OF the cabin, and, bringing ont 9
TN dipper with little Wster in i, offered that
70 us. S.