The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-21
LOSING a VACUUM.
HOW Mikes Kindness Was Rewarded by
UngratefnI Creaturo

no" mixes Kindness Was Rewarded by
an UnErateful Creature
The teacher of the Roseville High
school was young man with an
ardent love of science, and the BOYS
and girls had all caught something of
his spirit Twenty homes in Roseville
gave evidence of the experimental
work which was being carried OR bv
tse young people, and mothers, and
aunts held indignation meetings over
the bugs and toads and snakes and
birds, alive ard dead, that appeared in
unexpected places. One day Frank
Newman found an unusually handsome
mud-turtle. nearly as large as his hat.
In which he carried ii home.
That evening after tea there Vas an
excited meeting OF young people on
the lawn. Tennis was forgotten as
the boys discussed ways and means of
preserving this turtles fine shell.
Finally they decided to and asked their
teachers advice. Mr. Dean was full
OF interest He told them that he had
once cleaned shell of this sort very
easily, after he hadslzilled the turtle
by putting him under a glass receiver
and pumping out the air with an air
pump.
Next day, therefore, the zoology
class assembled after school in Mr..
Deans classroom to witness the ex-
pertinent Frank Newman put the
big tortoise under the receiver, and
Mr.. Dean pumped out the air until the
creature lay limp and lifeless, sprawl
ing out of its shell.
1T Is painless death" said the
professor. 1--WE will leave him here
until morning, to be sure that life is
extinct, before we remove the body
from the plastron and carapace
On his way to the classroom, early
the next morning, Frank Newman met
the jaritor, with his dust pan full of
fragments of glass.
Sure, Masther Newman, it's throuble
you're maxim with yez animals and
the glass bells" said he. That bic,
expansive one in Nisther Deaa' , room
Is smashed in sliveDeens by that shelled
baste you left shut up-and here they
are!''
But he was deadn' cried Frank.
''How cosd he break the receiver?"
Faith, fetched him to life. the
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a-gaspin' when l went 10 sweep out tLs
room yesther evening, just afther ye'd
gone and l thought you'd been forget
ting him, so 1 saved his life fur him:
and then look how he broke the glass
belll''
You saved his life for hiul How?''
Sure and L just slipped thin book
under one side of the glass, to give
him bit OF fresh air. And to pay nc
he had 10 go and hump himself up
and kick over the bell and smash il.
bad luck to himr'
Where is he nowP"
Hes found the bad luck said
Mike, with d slow smile. u was some
mad, to spake the thrur.., when / saw,
what he d done, and before 1 stopped
TO think Ia picked him up from the
floor whore he was prancing about ana
give him fling out of the window
And there / see one OF thin little ras-
Gals from the patch a-licking off down
the road wild MIN.
'Wen, Mike, 1 hope that in the
future you II not mcddle with our ca
periments,' said Frank, with som,
irritation. I'VE left the turtle over
night in the receiver because VIC
wished it to be there. II you hadn't
let in the air the accident would not
have happened. You see we had
vacuum" he concluded. condescend-
lngly.
Sure, was the craythur q Vacuum
said Mike, with great respect. 81
thought twas just common mud tur-
tle!'-Youth's Companion.l