Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1890-01-04
A Wise Ltttlo Ono.

A Wise Littlo Ono.
A lady went into millinery store
the other day to have some alterations
made in bonnet she had lately pur-
chased Her little daughter of four
wears, who went with her, soon found
her way in among the workers in the
back store, where she fell into admir-
ing wonder over the pretty materials
they were handling and making up in
to hats and bonnets. Seeing this, and
seeing also that her mamma would be
obliged to wait some time, the working
girls gave her some scraps of the ma
terials, together with an old hat and
bonnet frame, telling her she, too,
might sit down and trim with thcu.
She watched them quietly for time,
and then set to work. The quickness
with which she caught the art and imi-
tated what she had seen was quite sur
prising Finally she got the things
trimmed somewhat to her liking, and
held them up for inspection. The mil
liners all began to praise the work ex-
travagantly, telling her that it was
beautiful, and "as well done as they
could do it. The little one listened
moment, drew herself mp haughtily,
and looked offended. She tried to-
check the praise, and evidently strug-
gled for suitable words.
Il don't like you to talk that way"
she said, at last.
"Why not, dear?' asked the MILL
ners.
Because" answered the child, 1T
doesn't sound as if you meant it. It's
the first time I've trimmed, and-and
WELL I'd rather You'd be more cross
than so pleasant about it,"
She did not find just the right words,
but she made two things clear to her
hearers; she doubted their sincerity,
and was not to be blinded by self de-
ception.
Mistress "Lop-car' and Her Family.
"Choogy-choogy-choogy - choogs
--choog choog-choog cho-o-oog!"
Little Peggy Flint went calling out
into the lane and down to the pasture
to bring the pigs home. Peggy's faith
Ell had large flock, and old Lop-ear,
the mother pig, was sent out every
morning with them to feed on the
brakes and sweet grass and to root for
ground-nuts.
Later on there would be beech-nuts
and hazel-nuts and acorns among the
dry leaves. Then what fine eating tho
Pig family would have!
Now Mistress Lop-ear thought it
rather dry picking. True, Peggy gave
them breakfast Of sweet whey and
barley meal--they could not have milk
now, for Peggy's mother was making
cheese before they went out i'll tho
morning, and a supper of the same,
with some little, sour, windfall apples,
but what was that to satisfy pigs APP
petite?
SO they went out and came in hun
CRY, and squealed as only hungry pigs
can squcal, till the great long -necked
gander Missed, and running at Lop-ear
pinched her snout with his strong beak
till she ran away into a corner of the
barnyard with her drove for safety.
But Peggy could not find the pigs.
| She ran down by the "wallow" and up
by the lodges and across to the thicket
of cedars, shouting:
"Choogy oogy-choogy - choogy
-choog- choog -cho-o-oog!"
But not grunt nor a squeal came in
answer to her call, only the "Pee- ee-uk!
Pee -uk !" of the night hawks as they
sailed over the pasture, and swoo-oo-
ooped thousands of millers and flies
into their broad mouths.
Where could the pigs be? Now Peg
gy skirted, then ventured into, the
woods which were ringing with the
"nightingale's" sweet songs.
She ran on and on. By and by she
came to big hemlock tree that had
been blown down by the wind, and its
huge roots with the earth clinginG to
| them made great den away in behind
the rough trunk Peggy hoped MIN
bly, upon it, and ran up toward the
roots to look out over the underbrnsh,
when 10! black bear sat on his
launches far beneath her, and stared
up at her with small, curious eyes, and
his nose in the air wrinkling comically.
Didn't Peggy shrek! And didn't the
bear cut off out of sight into the
busiest Peggy was about to leap off
| the log and race the other way, when
she heard old Lop-ear's grunt of well
come: then the little pigs slueaked
timidly. They were in there under the
| hemlock.
Peggy ran for her father, and he
came with his gun, but the bear had
left the hemlock log far behind.
One of the pigs was gone, and old
Lop-ear was scratched and bitten
badly, testifying that she had made
brave fight under the hemlock to save
her little family. -Youth's Compd1s-
| ION.
A French paper gives Iasclnav'nh
account of ne wly. d discovered iower,9s
which rumors have from time to time
reached the ears of foriculturists. 1t Is
called the enow flower, and it is said to
have been discovered by cunt Anthos-
koff in the most northern Poru IN OF 81,
IBERIA. where the ground is continuously
covered with frost. This wonderful OBJ.
iect shoots forth from the froA n SOIL
only on the first day of each succeed ns
wear. 1t shines but for single day,