The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-11-27
A GREAT MACHINE.
dfathcr Pritchet Surprises the
Boys on Thanksgiving Morning an"
Teaches Them an Object Lesson.

G~reat-Gf0nd fathef ffstchet SuTprise'
Boys on Thanksgiving Morning and
Teaches Them an Object Lesson.
Great-grandfather Pritchet rub bed
Ills s~pectacles right and left an up
and down, and blew upon them, and
set them astride of his nose, and took
out his nippers and pincers and
drivers, and gathered together the
machinery of the new, big, bright en-
CINE with all the insides and out sides
Of "a regular steamer'-which the
boys had taken apart. And every one
nudged and looked at every one else'
for Observation-Disclosures Pritchet was a
great man in his way. and nobody
could have helped looking and nudg-
ing when smokesstacks and boilers and
shafts and pipes and p%istons went into
a hempen bag, and Grandf ather
Pritchet sat on the three-legged stool
shaking them up.
"What is that for, please?' vcntured
Young Wilfred, c%huckling a bit to him
self.
.Im shaking the engine together
was the reply.
at will smash every single thing"
muttered Johannes.
And Create Grandfather Pritchet
looked askew from under the
glasses astride of his nose and ex-
claimed: 'Odd. very odd!'
So it was; and every ole was sure
Of it.
"You said you would put 1t togeth-
err" muttered Johannes, not very glee-
fully, land you are shaking it to
bits!'
"How's that? Is it possible.' ejac-
aiated Great-grandfather Pritchet,
eying the bag outside; then glancing
within. $40; not Il bit Of 1t. Boy, you
are mistaken! 1t is but taking form;
the parts are but selecting their atti-
tudes; they are but preparing to COM
bine-to slip into their appointed
places.H
And the nippers and pincers and
hammers and drivers lay coolly on the
floor, while Great-grandfathcr Pritch-
ct shook the bag as before. Johannes
bit his lip and turned red in the face,
and twirled about on his high beel,
and his brothers whispered among
themselves, waiting to see what was to
come next.
at will be ruined. Grandfather.
ruined and broken to bits! Please let
me have the bag"
"How! Why? For what?" inquired
Great-grandfather Pritchet, calmly, as
if amazed. ''Will it not put itself to-
gether?'
"Why, how can it without handse"
"How can it without somebody 10 do
it?' at takes n head as well as hands
to put n s~team-engine togethcr!' three
voices exclaimed.
Great-grandfathcr Pritchct looked
gravely at his bag.
"a head as well as hands?-in other
words a man. That is odd enough, to
be sure!-But now answer me this: il
it takes a head and hands to put a toy
steam-engine together, what must it
take to put man togetherp-mau, who
is a mass of wonderful tissues, nerves,
muscles, bones; man, who is sensitive
and intelligent breathing, moving,
thinking; man with his wonderful body
continually reconstructing itself; so in
finitely delicate in mechanism that a
pins point of deviation from the
proper arrangement gives anguish; so
wonderfully constructed that it moves
in all its complicated ways without
effort and without pain;-who is 10 put
such a creature togetherP'
And the three lads answered: 'God."
"Now, suppose l put this steam
engine together and make it run
smoothly" inquired Great-grandfather
Pritchet, cycling the bag, "what will
you do for your part, johannes; for
the steam-ongine is yours?"
II shall thank you very much. sir