The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-11-13

The house dog on his paws outspread
Laid to the fire his drowsy head,
The cats dark silhouette on the wall
A couchant tigers seemed TO fall;
And, for the winter freside meet,
Between the andirons' straddling feet,
The mug of cider slmmered slow,
And. close at hand. the basket stood
With nuts from brown October's wood.
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But pshaw! Pm dreaming of the good old
days in the long ago.
Now, together with fruits and vegetables
fresh, in season and out of season, with the
the canned goods abomination we have the
year around chestnut"
We know not whence it cometh nor with
er il goeth, this truly modern variety, it is
highly cultivated, hardy, perennial.
We suspect it has come to stay. No sea-
son affects it-neither summers heat nor
winters frosts.
Perhaps some nischievous sprite dances
along with the modern pen.
Horsepower, It's inevitable.
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In the splingtime gentle Annie goes to
house cleaning, while John works off some
highly spiced, choice English. Homes a
place of soap suds and feather busters until
the advent of the sumner young man from
Tape, Garden s. Co., who goes out with
Betty to milk the cows Hornets, tinpails,
horns and shreds of the summer young man
complete the tale.
November-the melancholy times have
come, times of misft stovepipes and broken
ayd
less worry, work and frets, until the gladstone
Xmastide which ushers in grandma, mother,
my "mother-in-law." peace on earth good
will to men," Ting ling ling.
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We start for gentle sail on lily-spread
lake, spooning couples idly planning how
each may paddle the others canoe. Here's
the inevitable small boy, ubiquitous and
grinning. He launches forth about sister
Sues best young man, how father held the
warning light while Adolphus bowed himself
out expeditiously if not gracefully.
Or mildest of designations, a Sunday school
pic mic where when the inner man is satisfied
Parson Goodman takes the stump Qiterally)
to air his appreciation of the harmony in his
choir and the generosity of his members as
evinced in the pampered condition ofselfand
family.
"Oh don't you hear dem bells a-ringn'."
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The golden rod and wild carrot have pro-
voked more contributions to the national
flower literature.
1t will be a sad time for the scribblers when
Congress definitely settles this momentous
question.
We have never heard when nor how they
propose to settle it; probably they will defer
such an exceedingly feminine matter to the
time when woman will help guide the ship of
State.
1t does seem hard that we of all the nations
are deprived of all symbolic and poetic ex-
preston of our nationality.
1t may be because we are so very young.
Disciples of the Monroe doctrine will come
to the trout as advocates of the wonderful
flower of the Islhmus of Tehuantepec.
They tell us this flower blooms white in
the morning, red at noon and blue at night.
Manifestly this is the flower designed by
the Creator 10 reign as the emblem of this
great American continent.
When we shall so enlarge our boundaries
as TO include the whole of North and South
America, then we will adopt and name this
mysterious bloom in the far off Isthmus of
Tehuantepec
Baby McKees precious nose is out of Joint,
not on account of his party, but all because
of his sex.
He makes right gallant little bow to
dainty baby Cleveland, who regins to-day
the Queen of hearts.
Mr. Cleveland may not think his non-vote
will be any the less power in the coming
political contest.
In truth she adjusts things nicely.
The babies, Democratic and Republican,
will pull the wires effectually.
Our native born gallantry assures Mr..
Cleveland of the Presidential nomination in
'92. A party that would deliberately tread
on the pink toes of little lady Cleveland, de-
serves to be Experimentation to the end OF
the chapter.
That the little lady must cut her teeth in
the White House is foregone conclusion.
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Hartford owns an animal who travels on
four legs, whose fame has gone abroad HeI
gait is slow and not too sure, occasionally
developing into regular grasshopper waltz
Her name is Rose with not Elizabeth bu
something else equally harmonious. AS {
means for rapid transit we would suggest he
to the fair directors. Visitors from Towsor
and Baltimore city might vote her an improve
ment upon the far-famed Baltimore and LIE
high R R.
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
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