The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-01
FABLES UP-TopATE.


college course had taken as the subject
J OF his graduation GRAFTON. The Ad-
/ yantages of Country Life. The young
man had been born in the city and never
{ had been in the country except as he had
! ridden through il on the cars. but he
was filed with enthusiasm for the wild,
free life in the country. where he could
I see the wild flowers bloom and hear the
/ little birds carol their songs. When he
read that the Kansas farmers were suf-
| fering for want of harvest hands he was
! filed with an ambition to help them in
1 their need. and the second day after com
mencement he announced to his father
that he was going to Kansas TO help In
| the harvest field. The old man had been
raised on the farm himself. and when he
/ listened to his son speak of the joys of
country life he was filled with inward
mirth, but he suppressed all manifesto
tions of the same and said. "All right.
my son. l have no doubt the farmers
will be glad when they see you coming,
and then the experience will be valuable
to you
Then the old man went away by himself
where he could take the bride from his
mirth and laugh unrestrained- He also
helped the boy TO get his trunk packed
and went to the train with him when he
started for the free and bounding West.
ceived word regarding the boy. Then a
I letter came, written in a heavy hand,
which ran as follows:
mr.. j. Spriggins New york city.
dear Sir: Yure Sun, frum whom got
yure address. is not FeeiiH' we'll Enough
to rite you himself and askes Me TO drop
You a few Lines. Me and My family
Are Well and hope This will find You
enjoyin' the same blessing Yure sun ar
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Him in Town and he rode out to the
Farm with me. He Told me on the Way
out that he had Been Longin' fur the free
life in the Country where he Could here
the birds carol Their Songs and where
he could Help to Gether the Golden
grain l thought to myself young Teller
that there golden grain bizness will git
Tolerable Stale before Tomorrow Mite.
but ! didn't say nuthin. i walked him up
the next Mornin, at four o'clock. He
seemed Surprised and asked me II There
wuz Any NV the Majors sick. could see
that He wuz not Accustomed to Farm
Life. l put Him into a header box and
worked Him There till Noon. 1t wuZ
a middlin' hot day and i think never
seen a man sweat out so much water in
the course of seven hours as yure sun
did. He couldn't eat hearty at Noon,
but he tackled his job again at l o'clock.
seems to be a right husky lookin' chap.
but he really amt much more account
than rabbit. He hez been layin' here
at my house fur three days sick. The
doctor says he will be ready TO travel in
about three or four days. Would like
to hev you send me three dollars and
fifty Sents to pay for His bord and Lodg-
ings. Yure sun tells me he spent awl
his money fur railrode and sleeping car
II i,, h. sofn cit IT,
out here. 1 also had to guarantee the
doctors bill. The following is How the
account Stands:
doctors bill visits. s3.O0............. 1890
total .............-.......'.-.. sow
Credit by work quarters Nv day. $50
balance dew .............-............$ 80
Yure son will write AS Soon as he gifts
able. He hasn't said nuthin since the
first day about wantin' to here the Birds
sing. Yure sun think is a well meanin'
yung Teller, but you oughtn't TO let
helpless critter like him run at large.
Yours truly,
JASON SPARROWGRASS
Two tramps were pursuing their way
a house one OF the tramps started for
the, back door to-ask> FOR hand-out.
Just before he got to the door a large
brindle-colored dog dashed out of the
door toward the Weary William, barking
loudly. The tramp Immediately made a
getaway that would have done credit to
professional. AS he hit the road the
other tramp exclaimed in disgust: Wat
you runnin fur? Don't you know that
a barkin' dog never bites?" That's
all right, Gully, so far as theory goes.
painted the other tramp, but | wuz
raised in Missouri and don't take no
stock in these here book proverbs. That
there dog don't look to me as if he ever
read any NV them old proverbs, any
way"
1t isn't safe to bank on theory.
A man who had in his possession
brick of yellow metl weighing 10 pounds
sold the same TO a sucker for 800, the
sucker giving up his cash in exchange
under the impression that he was buying
10 pounds of gold The sucked knew
that 10 pounds Of gold We're worth about
81 500, and he laughed to think how he
had beat the other man out Of s2,4tD.
The next day the sucker took his brick
to a jeweler and ascertained that it was
brass. worth in the market about 20
cents What was the date OF your
birth. my friend?" asked the jewelor.
August IS, $780, answered the sucker.
Let me look at my book said the
jeweler as he took down cumbersome
record and looked it over. 'Ah. ] see;
you were born at 20 minutes past in the
afternoon How do you know that
asked the sucker. We'll. l have a record
here showing the exact time Of the
birth of fools. and yours just fills the
record for every minute OF that day"
There is a fool born every minute.-Mail
and Breeze