The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1885-08-14


what to do. He drove his one into
the lot with theirs aud told them to
count him as theirs and divide.
One took nine and another took six
and the other took two, and that
LETT the old mans elephant still in
the lot and he drove him back
home. Now the question is, was
this division right and fair accord
ing to the will If any boy got
the advantage say how much aud
explain how.
But after awhile the young folks
get smarter and smarter and al
most know it all, and they write
compositions and study algebra and
geometry aud talk sines aud co
sines and tangents and flap their
wings and get ont of the nest and
look around like they we're Just
ready to fly, but notice that they
hop back into the nest again and
open their mouths wide for bug
or worm and make a big fuss if
they don't get it. used to think
it would he glorious when l got
grown and was Stree, white and
twenty y-One," as they say, and l
could go and come when pleased,
and sure enough that time did come,
and soon got tired OF it and want
ell to get back in the good old nest
again and have my parents to take
care OF me aud comfort me. Some
times even now, when the children
worry their mother aud she feels
tired and sad, hear her sigh and
say TO them, "Oh, dear me, what
would you do without a mother "
and then she thinks OF the good
times she used to have in the long
ago, and sighs again atbl says, II
wish | had mother too"
l amazed myself not long ago
with city boy who was clever and
smart, but he hadent rubbed
against the woods, and the fields,
and the cattle very much and was
delighted. l told him that we had
curious stock of cows, for they
had no front teeth in their upper
laws, aud their feet were split open
and they chewed tobacco or some
thing jnst like man, and they
swallowed it and made it come mp
again, and chewed it some more.
Then / told hIm that our horses all
rot up before, but our coNs got up
behind first, aud he listened and
wondered. l told him that our
pigeons dident drink wafer like
chickens and other birds, bat suck
ed it up at one long drught, and
that they never brought their
young ones bug or a worm, but
fed them from the digested food in
their own stOmachs and made their
young ones put ther bills into the
mothers mouths to get it.
told him that our dog had four
toes on his left fore foot, and our
kind of field corn always had an
even number of rows on the ear,
aud never an odd row, and we had
- fig tree in the garden that never
bloOmed, but always bore fruit, and
we bad hop vines tha; would wind
round the poles only one way, and
bean vines that always wound the
other way, and you couldent make
them change. | told him that the
limbs of our trees never grew any
higher from the ground, no matter
how old or how tall the trees grew,
and so the boy thought we had
wonderful place and wonderful
things until | explained how it was.
Country boys seem mighty big fools
when they visit city aud the city
bows some times poke fun at them
and make sport, but my Observa-
ton is that a city boy is just as big
fool when he get in the country
and much more helpless. l read
the other day about a Boston girl
who had never seen COW, and
when asked how large she thought
COW was, said, "Oh, don't know
about as big as dog, | think"
| expect that was true about the
city girl who visited her country
cousins, and wanted to know which
COW gave the buttermilk, and that
other girl who, when she saw the
milking going on tor the FIRST time,
said, "Why, dear me, l thought
they pumped it out with the tail"
And so there is still something
for us all to learn, and there is
more after we learn the next than
before. l am glad that VIC all have
friends to teach us what we don't
know. l was lamenting my trOu-
bles not long ago about toting wa
ter from the spring and so forth,
and yesterday 1 had lctter from a
friend II reckon he is friendl SYM
pathizing aud cOndoling with me
and saying as how he used to have
the same troubles, and he wrote
tenderly and feelingly about three
pages aud suddenly informed me
that he was in the windmill bust
ness and could sell me a mill that
would jerk the water up from my
spring and put itin the kitchen aud
prolOng my valuable life several
years IL not more. Well, they do
beat all-these advertisers like that
windmill man and Warner and
Dougherty and the like. They are
so kind aud friendly. But l don't
want the windmill nor anything
that Warner has got. Wind and
water are all right at my house.
BILL ARP.