The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-21
UNCLE ELS FABLES.

approached by a youth of twenty, who
had SORROW in his fact n trouble in
his eye, and who sat himself down
and walled out:
80, Sage, there is grief at my heart
strings, and I have ~Journeyed many
miles to ask for advice"
Been playing a sure thing on the
races?" asked the old man, as he
stirred the fire under his pot of mutton
broth.
II have never yet r1sked a dollar on
the ponies, o wise man,
Got a breach of promise suit on
hand?'
INC, it is not that"
Hast some kind friend taught thee
the game of poker, and just when you
thought you knew 1t all sprung a full
house on thee against a flush?"
20 Sage. let me say to thee that I
am in love- I love as no man ever
wei, couldn't you go on loving
without taking up my timer"
ut is that I must have advice. I
do not think the maid reciprocates my
love. In fact. she seems to look upon
me with indifference"
"And you want to know how to
reach her heart and cause her to love
Il would give all I possess, o
Sage"
'Um You have got it bad. h
her name?''
"she is the beautiful and graceful
Fatfma. daughter of the wine mer-
chant"
And how Ion since you saw her?"
queried the Sage after a moments
thought.
TT is now a whole month, but she
has not been absent from my thoughts
for a single hour"
"Y-e-s. You don't read the yellow
journals as a regular thing, do your"
Il never even glanced at them, o
Sage"
'FWell, you've skipped something of
interest Knowest thor that Fatima
was wed a month ago?"
1T cannot, cannot bel"
made two columns in the papers.
She was married to Ab-El-Kerd, the
fiddle player"
Thou art stabbing me with words.
old mani
"And they went to Niagara Falls on
their bridal our. They had hardly ar
the fiddle m a seized her and carried
her over to Goat Island and jumped
off with her. They were pulling hair
when they went over the brink.
here to which I wish to call your at
tention. First: DON'T be ass enough to
to fall in love with a girl who don't
requite. You might as well waste your
affections OIL a cow. Second: If you are
in love with a girl, keep track of her
and don't let her be married a whole
month before you find it out. Third:
No girl wearing shoes is worth losing q
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yellow journals every evening. They
always contain choice morsels of news
that you can't afford to skip. Fifth:
Give thanks to Fate that Fatima gave
her hand elsewhere, and sixthly and
lastly, If you must love and marry and
make a fool of yourself at 20 look for
a widow bou 40 years old. She will
be wife and mother to you at the same
time. That's about all, except that IN
your perturbation you have been sit
ting down in my dish of breakfast food,
and it's time you got up and went"
THE WISE GOAT.
1t having become noiSed about that
the Goat had gained great wisdom, the
wolf, the fox, the lion and many other
animals assembled one day to hear
what he might say. They found Billy
in a stout pen on his masters land,
and as they sat down before him and
waited for words of wisdom to fall
from his lips he simply chewed away
at his straw and said nothing. When
several minutes had passed the wolf
whispered:
who could have started the report
that the Goat was wise? He hasn't
even uttered a b1eat."
The lion counselled patience, but
when ten minute a fled and the
Goat seemed obvious of their presence,
the fox exclaimed:
well, if this is what they call wis
dom I'll take mine out in chicken
Why, we've been here all of fifteen
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had a word to say!"
ut may be that his thinking ma
him was out of order" whispered the
lion. "I know that there are times
when 1 nave to wait for words to come
to me. We will give him ten minutes
more before coming to a decision"
The ten minutes passed without a
word from the Goat, and then the ami
mails retired and went into caucus.
The wolf at once a resolu-
ton to the effect hat the Goa was a
fool instead of a wise animal. but the
Lion rose up and said:
Moral: II shall move to lay that
resolution under the table. We visited
the Goat calculating to hear him talk
and give us a chance to criticize him.
Had he but uttered ten words half of
our number would have called him an
ass. He simply chewed straw and
said nothing, and therein lies his wis
dom. He is even wiser than we had
heard. Know We that true wisdom
consists not in talk, but in keeping
your mouth shut"
THE FOX AND THE PULLET.
One day while providing around a
farmers barnyard the Fox had his at
tention attracted to a fine. fat pullet,
but he did not dare to seize her OPEN
ly for fear of creating an alarm and
getting the dog after him. He, there
fore. resorted to strategy. When he
had attracted her notice he began
praising her plumage, but though she
was eNlOenIIy PLEASED she replied:
II must not listen to you. You are a
fox, and I have been taught that you
are dangerous"
Then Reynard praised her eyes. her
small feet and the proud pose of her
head, and vowed that he had never
seen a pullet like her
That is all very weIl," replied the
fowl. but you need not think to cajole
me. Ever since I was a wee chick I
have been hearing about foxes"
1T may be hat I nave eaten a few
fowls in my time, but 1 am here on
purpose to tell you of the change in