Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-16


Does the pain increase so fast
That It's terrible at last
Don't it you quickly eonvalesee when too late to
Do you think am Ounce?
Wasn't l a school-boy once?
Tell me, all you little boys for L d like to know.
i John S. Adams, in st. Nicholas.
| DUKE ANB THE EGG.
Duke is fine English setter and gener-
ally very good dog. But he has one bad
habit. lie will steal eggs. He is so sly
about it that his mistress cannot find out
where he gets them. Nearly every dag he
walks into the yard with an egg il his
mouth. After rolling it about little he
takes it between his paws, cracks the shell
and then eats the egg with great relish. One
day, after playing in this way as usual. he
tried to crack his egg, but could not break
it. He turned it over and over, tried his
teeth on it several times, and gave it real
hard knocks. But it was of no use. He
could not break it, for the egg was china
neSt-egg Finally Duke walked off, look
ing very much ashamed and just little
angry.
| ATTEND TO LITTLE DUTIES.
There was once a tailor who had q very
high temper Being in bad humOT one
day. and IN haste to finish some promised
work, he often stitched unsuccessfully on
account of forgetting to put the knot in
the end of his thread. His little child
came into the room and began TO tease him
for something. He at last became so en-
ragged that he killed his child. 1t was with
bitter tears that he repented of his deed,
but too late to save either his own life or
hers. He was asked, just before execu-
ton, if there was ANYTHING he wished to
saw. and replied: Oh that | could i'm
press on every one the Importance of al
ways having q knot at the end of the
thread" How much depends upon right
beginning 1t is often a very little thing
that makes the trouble. It may be but a
cross word.
| HOW FATHER CURED HIS HORSE.
Well said Reuben, the story teller,
" father always wanted a horse, because
the folks III Greene lived scattered and he
| had so far TO go to attend funerals and wed
dings and visit schools, you know; but he
never felt as if he could afford to buy one.
But one day hewas coming afoot from Hill
dreth, and stranger asked him to ride.
Father said That's a handsome horse
you're driving. | should like to own such
a horse myself
"' What will you give for him ? said the
man.
- Do you want to sell him." says
father.
- Yes, do; and I'll sell cheap, too,
SAYS he
- Oh we'll, says father, its no use
talking; for l haven't the money to buy
with
- Make an offer said he.
g. Well, just to put an end to the talk
father says, III give you $40 for the horse.
80 You may have him. SAYS the man, as
| n,,icly q b1t you'll -a-,a,+ &C,
bargain in Il week
- Why, what ais the horse?' says IA
Their.
Ais him? He's got the Old Mel; III
him, that's what ails him. says be. If he
has will to go, he'll go; but if he takes
notion to stop, ali creation can't start him.
I've stood and beat that horse till the sweat
ran of me in streams I've fired gun
close to his ears I've burned shavings UNI
der him. | might have beat him to death
or roasted him alive, before he'd have
budged an inch
I'm take the horse, says father. What's
his Nance
" George, says the man.
" shall cali him George, says father
Well, father brought him home. and
We boys were pleased, and we fixed place
for him in the barn, and curried him down
and fed him well and father said, Talk
to him, boys, and let him know You feel
friendly.
80 we coaxed and petted him, and the
next morning father harnessed him and got
into the wagon to go. But George wouldn't
stir a step. Father got out and patted him,
and we brought him apples and clover
tops and once in a while father would say.
Get up, George, but be didn't strike the
horse a blow. By-and-by, he says This
is going to take time. Well. George we'll
see which has got the most patience. you or
L. SO he sat i'll his wagon, and took out
his skeletons
skeletons % said Poppet, inquiringly.
"Of sermons, you know. Ministers al
ways carry around q little book to put
things into they think Of when they are out
walking or riding or hoeing in the garden
well, father sat two full hours before
the horse was ready to start; but when he
did there was no more trouble for that day.
The next morning twas the same thing
over again, only Georgia gave in little
sooner. All the while il seemed as if father
couldn't do enough for the horse. He was
around the stable, feeding him and frissing
over him. and talking to him in his pleas
ant, gentle way; and the third morning,
when he had fed and currcd and harnessed
him with his own hands, somehow there
was different look in the horses eyes.
put his feet together and laid back his ears
and wouldn't stir. Well, Dove was playing
about the yard, and she brought her stool
and climbed up by the horses head.
" Dove, tell what you said to George that
morning"
Il gave him a talking to- said the little
girl u told him it was perfectly 'diculous
for him to act so; that he'd come to real
good place to live, where everybody helped
everybody that he was ministers horse,
and that God would not love him if he was
not good horse. That's what | told him,
and then kissed him on the nose
And what did George do?'
Why, he heard every word said and
when got through, he felt so 'shamed OF
himself that ne couldn't hold up his head
so he just dropped it till it almost touched
the ground, and he looked as sheepiSh as if
he had been stealing hundred Sleeps"
Yes, said Reuben; "and when father |
told him 10 go he walked off like q shot |
He has never made any trouble since. |
That's the way father cured balky horse. |
And that night, when he was embarrassed |
he rubbed his head against his shoulder.
and told him, as plain as u horse could
speak, that he was sorry He's tried 70 |
make it up with father ever since, for the
trouble he made him, When he's loose i'll |
the pasture, father has only to stand at the
bars and call his name, and he walks up
quiet as an old sheep. Why, I've seen him |
back himself between the shafts of the old !
wagon many a time to save father trouble |
Father wouldn take 5000 for the horse to- !
day. He eats anything you give him. Sis |
very often brings out some of her dinner to
him.
He likes to. eat out OF a plate" said |
Dove; lit makes him think he's folks =
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