Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-07


One Younesaer whs safisfssd Himself. BY
Making Pracssoal Expsriuaeats.
From the New YosA nmsa
There h Q story-not another story, 90 Mr..
Kipling would Say, though there ID . story after
this one--about = clergyman Who was once
called upon TO talk 70 The pupils in . country
school. He knew boys are disposed 10 be cruel
and so when he fell to talking, a. he did, about
wanton sport, he addressed himself particu-
larly TO the youngsters before him. why,
boys," he said, 81 knew some boys once who
used to catch frogs and IN them with shot and
then make the poor frogs try to jump, which,
Of course, was very cruel sport for the frogs
could not STIR"
As the clergyman left the school house he
heard one boy say 70 some others: ''That'sa
great scheme the teacher put ms onto. Let's
60 down to the swamp and catch frog and try
Nov. this ID very old story. and some cap
tious persons may say that the clergyman used
z certain tale about jumping frog as part of
his personal experience, but that has nothing
to do with the reason for telling it here. which
is solely that moral may be drawn for another
story, the moral being that il you want to in
spire boy 10 do some particularly mischiev-
Gus and rePIehensible thing You should speak
avoid taxing him into the conversation il will
strengthen the certainty Of his doing the thing
in mind.
One night at the dinner table the boy heard
this proposition laid down: That il anybody
sucks lemon in front of brass baud that
band becomes ~ mute - the harp that hung in
Iara's halls Then there grew mp within him a
longing for . combination Of q boy, lemon
and q band. Two elements in the conjunction
be could supply, and be bought q lemon. Then
fOr bar a ham wit (,ar-
mans to run the machinery. The boy lives in
Brooklyn and there are German bands over
there even to this day, but il was . week before
ono came within his reach.
The band came down Willow street and
turned into Middagh. The boy and the lemon
met it there and took up position on fence
directly in front Of which the band had de-
termincd TO play. The band consulted and
decided upon Little Fisher Maiden" The boy
secretly gnawed hole in one end Of his lemon.
Then the E-dat clarionet, which being the only
wood instrument in the band is q proud one,
and the E-hat cornet, which because it divides
with the carionet all the fancy work in the
intricate music of such bands, got ready. And
the B-fat cornet, which has thrust of upon it
the air when the first two cannot get down low
enough, and the two b fat tenors and the two
E-fat altos and the B-flat baritone, which gets
bass solo now and then, and the tuba. which
does not get anything except a great deal of
wind, they all got ready and they played one
verse OF Little Fisher Maiden SO beautifully
that a district messenger boy stopped to hear
them.
Then the boy threw the lemon into action
and with great apparent enjoyment. sucked IT,
I taking the precaution to kick a dog SO it
yeiped and thereby attracting attention to him
self The two tenors and the clarionet dropped
out OF the race on the second bar of the chorus
the altos and the baritone went to cover three
bars later on, tho two comets held on a half
minute longer and then succumbed and the