Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-05-25
STIckaTo IT.
Lessons OF Perseverance which We 11lxhs
Learn from tho Animal world.

| Learn from the Animal world.
The story of Robert Bruce and the
spider is too ancient to be retold. But
less venerable is the following anecdote
| of Timour the Tartar, else called Ii
mourlenk, and also Timourlame-not
unhappi1y, for lame he was. Once, fly.
ing from his swarming foes, this future
conquerer of half the then known
world stole into q ruined building, and
! there lurked for many weary hour.
Presently, to divert his thoughts from
his seemingly hopeless plight, he began
to watch the movements of an ant hard
struggling to lug a grain of corn, big
| as herself. to the top of q lofty wall
Again and again she failed; but never
lost heart. And at length, after sixty
nine fruit1ess efforts, success regarded
her plucky perseverance,
This sight," writes Timour, gave
me courage then, and taught me a les
son which I shall never forget"
Meanwhile, as the latest illustrations
are always the best, / can supply one
no older than last summer. Strolling
along country lane, not ten miles
from New York city, suddenly heard
rust1ing sound In the Usage orange
hedge that crowns the yard-high bank
which tanks the roadway. Then came
light fall. looked, and 10! large
rat lay, seemingly Ifaless, at the foot
OF the bank.
Raising my eyes to the hedgerow, I
noticed pair OF bright, black, bead
like eyes warily peeping from one of
the tunnel-like ends of a hollow root
The other end yawned Black about a
foot to the left; and, as soon discov-
cred, the tunnel ran right through.
Stepping back some three. or four,
yards, stood stock still, resolved to
watch the upshot of this little wayside.
tragedy in animal life: Ere long the
owner of the eyes-a weaseFLeaped
from his wooden cave; and, fixing it's:
teeth in the nape of the rats neck,
scrambled with it half way up the
bank, then rolled back, prey and all,
into tine road.
This. laughable mishap, however, &C.
Cured but once. Next time, theweasel:
dropped the rat int time to save itself.
But drop it it did-yes, a, score OF times,
before the sound Of nearing wheels
scared e from it's efforts to secure the
quarry,it had killed.
Would it renew them? Yes, the
momens the sound of the wheels, died
away In, the distance, there CLEANED
the bright eyes, like pair of lamps,
from the right-hand mouth. OFF the.t un-
mel; and, in a trice, the'sti1ll fnitiess
efforttwas repeated.
Try succeeded try with, lightning
speed, and, though alone, laughed
aloud 10 see this pretty ittie-animal
darting in at one end of the, laoots and
out at the other; as if it.were playing a.
game,o1 bo-peep withsme withdrawing
a passing dash at its, booty, just to.
heighten the fun
Yet the weasel meant business as
we say. Though dozens of vehicles
rumblesl by and drove itinto thedepths
of it's .etreat, the instant the aoasts was
clear. forth it rushed fora fresh try.
CLEARLY" thought I, s'iF weasels
have word books, this weasel has blDt-
ted 'ou4 the word impossible"
Fon.a whole hour I waited; but.not
impa tfently. How feel impatient,. in
the face of that living example off pa
tent perseverance,? Besides, 1 was
counting the attempts. L counted
and then
Wen, by this time = .smaHlpyranid Of
sand and gravel, scraped down by the
scrap bling paws, lay piled
beneath the left, and hols, andl as il
guided by reason rather than by in
stinct, the weasel asailed itself At this
accidental aid!
PARTING down, for. the. eighty sixth
thine, it hauled itaprey to, the, top Of
the pyramid, theIHe tooR-a sout Of fy-
ing leap and vanished with its load, to,
be seen nsmore by me. sDou3ssless, il.
snjoyedi its uihmp1h and it's
hard -earaed mesla-a 7lentissal one, fur
the quarry was. nearly as big as the
hunter.
The reader will think Of Timouf..
lanes ants gAin osfcorns. bat Of that
story then knew vaughn And hdf,
pluckly struggling with a sackfnE ok
flour, WAS tlaes only sisai1a that ssfq-
gested ITSELF as watcaed this strilkin0
of tina old truth that Per
severance does. i'll "--Rlailip Kent. in
COLLEEN Days.
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