The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-01-10

ana mountains, Dut some OF them were
| people, and then there were lot of real
funny ones, such as man falling over
pig, and a big goat knocking a boy
over Tom and | had very nice time
looking at them, and we were very care
| full to put them back on the piles Just in
the same way that the lecturer had put
them. Only once in while Tom would
forget just where picture belonged,
and we had to put it in the wrong place.
This was what made all the trouble, and
if any one was to blame for it, Tom
was the one
We didn't tell the lecturer that we
had looked at his pictures. for that
might have troubled him, and we ought
never to give trouble to people that are
older than we are. Tom and l went to
the lecture, and so did almost every
body else in town. and when the lee
turer began to speak you would has.
said that he was one of the incest men
you ever saw, he looked so pleased
The trouble began when, after having
showed US a lot of pictures, he said:
'The next picture, ladies and gentle
men, is portrait of Her Gracious Ma
jesty, Queen Victoria. Now it hap
pened that the next picture was a large
cat with dozen kittens, and somebody
said: "Haw! haw! is that the Queena"
The lecturer knew he had made mis-
take, but he pretended it was all right,
and said that the cat belonged to his 1t
tie girl, and its name was really Queen
Victoria.
The next pictures were mostly right,
though what the lecturer said would
be picture of steamboat on
the Rhine turned out to be
man on a bicycle, and what he
called view of the battle of Waterloo
was boy being knocked over by a
goat. After awhile he asked all his
German friends present-but / don't
believe he knew single one of them
to admire beautiful portrait of that
hero and patriot Prince Bismarck, and
when the portrait appeared on the sheet
it was picture of pig running away
from fat butcher. You should have
heard the lecturers German friends
howl, and / believe they would have
thrown something at him besides heavy
German words if he hadn't begged
their pardon and said it was all
mistake, and he feared that some evil
minded person had wickedly mixed up
his pictures.
Well. the Germans stopped saying
things after awhile, and the lecturer
went on. His pictures got worse and
worse. His lovely view of Ven ce, as
he called it, was picture of a herd of
buffaloes, and what he told US would be
picture of a wedding in Egypt was a
cat and a dog fighting and an old
woman beating them with club. This
made him nervous, and he kept putting
pictures into the magic lantern upside
down, and making the King of Greece
and the Queen of Italy stand on their
heads, and asking the people to excuse
any mistakes, and wishing he could put
his hands on the evl-minded persons
who had meddled with his pictures. Fl
naliy he told the people that he would
show them the picture of two innocent
and lovely children. Tom hit me in
the side with his elbow when the lee
turer said this, and whispered to me:
"Be all ready to run l didn't have
the least idea what he me MT till / saw
the picture. / never was more aston
ished in my life, for it was a picture l
had made of Mr.. Travers and Sue sit
ting on the sofa and holding each 9TH
er's hands. 1T had got mixed up in
some way with the lecturers own pict-
ures, and believe Tom had something
to do with it, though he won't own up.
Tom and | went out as soon as we
saw the picture, but we could hear the
people laugh and yell when we were
half mile away. | heard afterward
that the lecturer didn't show any more
pictures, and that he jumped out of the
back window, with Mr.. Travers close
after him. Anyway, he never came
back to our house. Mr.. Trayers. when
he found that l really hadn't put the
picture of him and Sue among the others.
forgave me, but Sue says she never will.
| think Tom ought to own up, and if
Mr.. Travers catches him | think he will.
Jimmy Brown," IN Harper's Young
People.