The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-11-28
the Disconted schooiboy.
To leave or not TO leaye-that is IL

The Disconted schooIboy.
To leave or not TO lcaye-thaL is the
question;
Whether I nOhlcr in the mind TO suffer
The zrrors and notes Of outrageous
school life,
Or 10 take arms Il. ainst a sea Of trouble,
And 10y leaving emil them? To lcuvt--to
wnIk--
And by worNin. cal 'hc thru.and M e
uml
II, atarhrs, troubles and dissensions
That schu0l-liic is heir io-'lwould be a
consultation
To have no studips-to lenvc--to work
To work Perrhancc to fret Az, there's
the rub;
For in that fretting, for ones livelihood,
Might it not be worst than study?
This makes us pause Who would fret
over lessons,
Stay home in the afternoon and scratch
out drawing
Instead of going to the baseball match
But that the dread of work-from whose
realm
No one e'er returns to carbohydrates
the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we
have
Than fly to others that we know not of
MnToN j. RosENAU in C. H. 5. Mirror.
The growing season: GLOW things
do grow this weather." said the dea-
con to Brother Amos. ayes, they
do" replied the brother. Last night
| heard you say you caught forty
fish, and this morning l heard you
tell Mr.. Smith it was one hundred
and fifty"
He came into the office and said.
"You see, my brothers are shoe
makers, and they mended my shoes.
Now why am like Joseph of the
Biblical history?" We gave it up.
"Why, because / was soled by my
brothers" The inquest on him will
be held to-day.
A lawyer some time since asked a
judge to charge the jury "that it
was better for ninety-nine guilty
men to escape than for one innocent
man to be punished" EYES," said
the judge, 81 will give that charge ..
but it is the opinion of the court
that the ninety-nine guilty men have
escaped"
He frightened him; A man call
ed out to his creditor: Get out,
your ornithorhyncus p The man
departed meekly.-"Who's that ?"
inquired friend of the speak
er. "An ornithorhyncus." "How's
that?" "Well, Webster defines him
as "a beast with bill"
She laid her cheek on the easy
chair back against his head and
murmured "How / do love to rest
thus against your head, Augustus w
$40 your" said he. 1t is because
you love me-" "No; it is beause it
is so nice and soft" Then he lay
and lay, and thought and thought.
A tramp came trembling over
high fence into the street yesterday
to meet his partner. When asked
what was the matter he replied.
20, nothing; | was treated very
cur-teously, l was told to wait a few
minutes and l could have a bite"
The smallest congregation | adj
dressed during the first years of my
said Bishop Pierce, of
Georgia to an Interviewer, con-
sisted of six years, three men and
three women. One March day after
ward | rode ten miles through
drenching rain to Flatrock Chapel,
in Putnam county, only to find two
persons there-a man and a boy. |
was wet to the skin and benumbed.
After waiting few minutes, and no
additions coming, | said:
ave might as well leave here, as
there will be no congregations"
The man quietly responded :
Through five miles of pelting rain
| have come to hear preaching"
1 saw at once my duty, and re-
piled: "You are right; you are en-
titled to it," For one hour l adj
dressed my little congregation and
was never listened to with more at
tention.
A few years since, at the celebra-
ton of an anniversary, poor ped
dler who was present, being called
upon for a toast, offered the follow
ing-"Here is health to poverty-it
sticks to a man when all his friends
forsake him."
An excellent quartette-a good
temper, a good library, a good wife
and a good friend, are four of the
choicest blessings of life.
"Good day, Nose How you vas
shanged. Wouldn't never hafe