The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-11-16
"ME AND DoTTv."

He Applies the Moral.
Dick and Dotty were Mt play in tho
backyard, while their father wheeled
vood into the shed. AMI piled 1t up.
lie had wheeled in nearly all Of it,
when he was called away. but before
starting, he spoke to the children:
II feel anxious TO have the rest OF
this wood in. for IT looks like rain; but
can not stop TO get it in. IT. -
80 little OF il, you might carry 1t in
your arms"
The children wont to work. and thcir
mother, sewing at her chamber win
dow. watched them.
Dotty worked like n little woman.
loading down her short. fat arms with
as many sticks MS shc could carry. and
moving back and forth with very
business air. Dick carried in one arm
full. and then tried the wheclbarrow.
I'm going to get it in faster than
you cant he said. boastingly. to Dotty;
but II was an empty boast The
wheelbarrow was quite too big for him
TO handle, and he spilled the wood one
side and the other. So he gave up the
wheelbarrow, and went for his sled.
"Oh laughed Dotty. ''Sleding on
bare ground!''
You'll sec what I'll do" cried
Dick, loading up his sled. Then he
took hold to draw 1t, aud made be-
licve II was horse; and he pranced
and kicked and squealed, and finally
dragged the sled into the wool-shed.
with two sticks that hadn't rolled of.
BY that time Dotty had the res. Of the
wood all carried in, and piled up.
Their mother came out just then.
20 mother" cried Dick. .'just see
this little pile OF wood here! Me and
Dotty got it in. Didn't we do well?"
His mother smiled as she sat down
on the wheelbarrow. LET me tell
you a story she said.
"One day woman who lived In .
log-cabin i'm deep. wild wood. was
busy at work, when tho door was sud
denly thrown open and in rushed her
husband. Without stopping to shut
the door after him. he ran up the lad
der to the loft overhead. and just then
bear tnat had been chasing him came
In at the open door. For fear that the
bear would climb the ladder. the man
drew II up after him rs quick as a
wink. and left his wife to fight it out
with the bear.
'She had dipper OF hot water in
her hand. and she threw il square in
the bears face, nearly putting his
eyes out He rushed at her, and she
seized the great iron poker and
pounded him over the head. So they
Jew around the room, she pounding
him with the POKER. and dashing
hot water on him. and the man up
above doing all he could to encourage
her by shouting: That's right. Bet
scy! Give IL to him! Hit him over
the head! Good for you. Betseyr and
90 on BY and by Betsey managed to
seize the big butcher-knife and stick IL
into the bear. and he soon fell down
and died. When the man was sure the
bear was dead. he came down the lad
der and locked him over. 'Aint he a
big one, Betscy?' he said. 4 tell you.
I'm glad we killed hint
1.-The next day he went TO town. and
told every b ody he met: 4 tell you
what. me and Betsey killed an awful
big bear yesterday"
Dick listened very carefully. and
| looked rather sober as his mother went
on with the story, and he didn't seem
to think It had a very nice caiing.
As she finished, he looked up wisely.
and said; ''Dotty got in most al! OF
the wood, mamma - Iouth's Conf
panion.