The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-31
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'The hereditary transY ssion AZ INV
sical and mental traits land Tendencies.
from generation to q Iteration In men
ana animals and iIsects and everv.
thing that lives j queer, isn't it?"
said a man will green patch over
one eye AZ he dangled his feet over a
ditch on the onion meadows and
watched the erratic flight Of a dragon
ny hunting insects here and there and
up and down. according to a corre-
spondent to the New York Sun.
A short man chewing q cigar butt,
whose extinct crater emitted q tre-
mendous odor. leaned against an ad-
Jacent tree. They had both alighted
from q box car Of an Erie freight
train. having been impelled thereto by
an irate brakeman with q club. The
short man stroked his chin q moment
and then. in tones startingly mild for
2 man who had braved so fierce a
cigar, said:
II III How long has 1t been going
on?,
Always!' replied the man with the
Green patch. why. 1t was going en-
when all the men who think and delve
and run for ONCE today, all the fish
that swim and beasts that walk and
birds that fly. and all the insects that
nit IN the sunbeam and wiggle in the
mud-puddle and gyrate and gymnas-
dcate wherever they COLL hang please
where but protoplastic atoms In a
chaotic, world cons and cons ago"
Go 'way! exclaimed the short man.
II want to know!"
Certainly" said the man with the
green patch. THAT dragon fly put me
In mind OF It. And every time I see
chicken am reminded of it. Sixty
years ago. on my grandfather's farm.
at O'clock in the afternoon of July 49,
. strange dog ran In among flock of
chickens. causing them to cackle and
dutter and fly in all directions In
state OF the utmost alarm. 1t was only
tritiing incident. and was forgotten
almost rs quickly as it had occurred. At
exactly o'clock on the afternoon of
July ~ the next year, however, the
chickens began to cackle and flutter
and ny In all directions In the same
high state Of alarm that had marked
them when the strange dog SO suddenly
Asss.sed them Just one year before,
exactly to the minute! This time there
9as no dog. The singular part of this
case 10 that every year since then.
Rromptly At 4 o'clock p. m. Of July 10,
o. chickens ON my grandfather's farm
afe thrown into the same state of in
tense alarm that the dog threw the
chickens into sixty years before-a
aDcat striking instance OF hereditary
Transition OF both mental and physical
tenAency In the race Of fowls"
And are they the same chickens that
fAe dog scared!" asked the short man.
rho seemed profoundly interested.
The man with the green patch glared
~ tie short man with his uncovered
ore ard gritting his teeth. exclaimed:
-yaA- certainly. and my grandfather,
9he was only 90 years old at that time
ehe dog scared the chickens. still shells
lie e,nrn and feeds them, while the dog is
tpeaE cheerfully running churning
aneAine on Z neighboring farm"
-1Gy. n,yr' said the short man. "And
- dragon nies do It. too?"
no vhat!' snapped the man with
- pateA.
Gel scared By dogs and ny up and
enrkse. and do Il over again at 4 p. m.
- u 18th day q every July
t. man With the green patch looked
- nl0urnfully across the meadows,
NAexe men and women and children
vese wedding the onion fields in the
speafsSing sun. He hummed q plaintive
- and then spoke up YEARLY:
In my native town there il pecu-
Mar raee o. dragon dies. Once. some
ysau aso. = common. ordinary dragon
~ Aew through window In my native
$500 into Z room where foolish per-
- ssxsek q It with towel and
leaEed Oh portion Of one Of its
Unex disabling II. A friend Of mine,
$3.50 ~as something Of genius, was
1ssx He took MP the injured insect
- Aestiy repaired its shattered wing
N1GA siasue paper and mucilage. He
AlA TIE ~ ont Of the window and It
49, wing. It re IA the air. but dew
sA and round In big circle. II
assa1a.t 20 STRAIGHT ahead. Ny friend.
$50 IN. md made one wing heavier