The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20

Creat-grandmamma took off her snef.
tacles to laugh; she shook so hard the,
would tumble off,
"That reminds me of what hammered
to my Sunday boots once 1 didn't laugh
then! Oh, dear me, no! How | cried,
1t meant a good deal to lose Your Sun
day boots in those days You see. in
summer we children always went bare
foot. And Sundays we carried our shoes
and stockings in our hands. and put them
and then took them off again to walk
home Church was three miles away:
and 1t would have worn them out too
much to wear them all the way.-dearie
me, yes! Well, this Sunday we got there
early, and thought we'd leave our shoes
under the oak, and run down to the
cranberry creek for wade Mother
never allowed us to on Sundays; but we
went
Great grandma's sorrowful gaze rest
ed on Annis Emily with dreamy look.
as if she thought Annis Emily were her
own long ago, naughty self.
We went. When we came back Dea
con Balls old ram was just chewing up
my second shoe. Oh, dearie me-
That was the end of G.Grandma's IRE
mind.' There wasn't any moral.
&c. Grandma never says morals; she
looks 'em!' Eric said
'She wasn't laughin' when she got
through. She looked sorry,' Annis EN-
ly said thoughtfully. Most hundred
years is a long time to say sorry in
Eric Bunce"
well" Eric said wisely, then you
must mind your mother!'-Annie Ham
itOn DOnnell in lions Herald.
The Love of Wild Animals for Their
Young.
&c. TO .,to
a pair of whimpering bear cubs and
carry them off, but i'll one case the tray
elcrs who engaged in the pastime found
the grief of the mother too real to allow
them to persist in the fun. They were a
professor and five seniors from an East
ture was near the line between Penn
sylvania and New York. They came
upon a couple of little cubs Struggled
away in the bush, and scarcely realizing
what they did. carried them to their boat
and covered them with coat. Then
they. hastily pushed off and padded up
stream to be farther from the mothe,
when she should discover her loss.
The little fellows kept up a continual
crying, and soon a plunge caused tn.
travellers to look back, and there was the
old bear putting and tloundering across
in search of her babies.
The almost human intelligence and so
iSNtut> SHt NiNlIdH XVI IL Ho vas!
matter to persist in the abduction of the
cubs. Pressing on ahead of the boat ;
few. rods, she would plunge into the
stream and intercept it, and when cvaded
and passed, would take to the bank again
and repeat the attempt with increased
cunning. Her action was intensely hui
man. She screamed and scolded. wept
and moaned her tears flowed freely, her
lips and under jaw trembling She hid
her face in her paws, and then held them
forth as if beseeching. Some of tn:
pat. WY si-i,..-.r the.-.7--I-4
others held out.
The babies whimpered necessarily. and
the mothers demonstrations of grief
grew more touching Her anger seemed
to abate but in it's place came more
plaintiye tones. She showed no signs of
abandoning the chase.
At last it was decided to surrender tn
cubs, and the boat was pulled across tc
the bank opposite to the old bear. Their.
the little cnss were gently placed on the
sandy beach, and the party hurried bach
to the boat. They were none too soon
for the instant they lifted her babies in
sight the mother started across.
She went to the cubs, nosed them over.
searching for wounds, and then licked
their glossy fur affcctionately, crying
meanwhile, like a human mother weeping
for joy. Then after reproa ching the
travellers fnriOuSly for Il minute. she took
beth cubs up by the neck, and holding
them in her great jaws, carried them off
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