The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-11-05

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tion. Its matter is we'll expressed ex-
cept in the misuse Of plural verbs with
singular subjects in two places, at the
last.
BEAVERS.
Beavers are found in North America
and South America. Beavers make the
most curious huts to live in.
Sometimes a great number Of these
huts are built close together like the
building of q town. They build their
huts on the banks of rivers for they
swim much more easily than they walk
and they like to move about. in water.
The huts are made of mud stones,
and branches of trees and are
round in shape. The walls of their
huts are thick and the roofs are fin
ished with a thick layer Of mud, sticks
and leaves.
Beavers build dams of the same ma
terial as their huts are made of. The
dams are six or seven hundred feet in
length.
The fur Of beavers are used to make
ladies' jackets, hats, cloaks, and many
other things.
The food Of beavers are bark Of trees.
The Joseph composition shows a more
original style perhaps than any of the
others. 1t is married by n long SEN
tence being involved and cumbersome.
This sentence should have been di-
vided into several. The handwriting
is distinctive, o perpendicular sort OF
handwriting that is attractive to see
but not good to learn or to teach be-
cause rapidity would not be ac-
quired with it by many persons. How
ever, in this instance it is an excellent
hand:
JOSEPH.
Joseph was the best of Jacobs twelve
sons.
Jacob loved Joseph very much and
gave him q coat of many cOlors.
The brothers were jealous of THE,
and hated and were very unkind to
Joseph.
One day Joseph's brothers were
tending their fathers focks. They
were along time coming back and ia
cob sent Joseph to see what had be-
come OF them.
When they saw him coming, they
began making plans to kill him. One
OF them, a little Drawer, did not agree
to IT, but said lets put him in that pit,
and when he got there they tore his
coat of OF him and put him in the pit,
then they killed q lamb to dip his coat
into the blood to take to their father,
but before they went they saw some
Ishmaelites coming and n of them,
who loved money, wanted to sell Jos
eph to the Ishmaelites and the others
agreed and they took him out and sold
him to the people, then carried the
coat home to their father and told him
that some wild beast had torn Joseph
to pieces.
The Ishmaelites sold Joseph to Po'
tiphar In Egypt.
He was g good youth and feared God,
Potiphar liked Joseph and made him
head servant over all his house.
Potiphar's wife was q wicked woman
and tried to get Joseph to join with
her and because he refused she went
and told Potiphar that he had behaved
i'll.
Potiphar believed and never tried Il
find out whether 1t was true OF not,
but put him in prison.
The keeper of the prison soon learned
to love Joseph, and put him in charge
Of all the other prisoners.
Once Pharaoh dreamed q dream and
he wanted to know the meaning Of 1t
Joseph had interpreted the dreami
Of some other men, 90 Pharaoh sent fol
Joseph and told him his dream. Jos
eph said there would be seven fruitful
years and event not fruitfui. Pharaoh
was pleased with Joseph and made
him ruler next to himself over al,
Egypt.
Tho famine came. The people around
did not have anything to eat.
Joseph's brothers came q good many
times for food, and one time he made
himself knoxn to them and told them