Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-11-30

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dog down; lie would leap in the air and
fall playfully on Don, completely fiat.
tening out that faithful collie for the
moment; in short, his Herculean
caresses so terrified Don that he was
too scared even to run away. REFLECTED
bitterly that only the aristocratic and
high-priced puppies die, and that the
yellow purps always grow up into strong
and lusty dogs. thought of those lines
of Shakespeare's-let me see, was It
Shakespeare, now?-well perhaps they
are Millions:
Il never had piece Of bread.
Particularly good and wide,
But that 1t fell upon the floor,
And always on the buttered side"
With sigh went on in my pursuit
of news:
well, well, Sirius gone; that's too
bad Anything else happened, Eben-
ezer?"
Nope"
"How is the heifar?"
(which heifer? The .brindle?"
mo. Ox-Eye, the little Jersey"
"Dead."
"What, Ox-Eye deadI What was the
matter?"
"Choked."
"Choked? Why, how did she choke?"
Apple"
This was another blow.
Ox-Eye was the only calf we had been
favored with for some time in the Jersey
herd that looked like a straight Jersey.
All the others seemed to throw back"
! to distant Holstein and Durham sires;
they all presented strange hybrid fea-
lures not known in the pure Jersey line.
Ox-Eye was a perfect pearl among
Jersey heifers-now she was dead.
swallowed my chagrin, and went on:
How are the chickens getting on.
Ebenezer?"
"All right"
Are the hens laying?"
Nope"
"How is the big Brahma cockerel?"
Dead"
what, the brahma dead! When did
he die?"
Last week."
what was the matter with himP"
Chicken hawk"
Here was another stab. l had pur-
chased the brahma cockerel up to~the
city" for five dollars; was assured that
he was of the bluest Brahma blood; and
here he had gone back on me and died.
bitterly thought that If l had paid only
trifle for him he would-~but stop!-
here l suddenly remembered that short
ly after his purchase l had bought an
other brahma cockerel from a widow
woman in Arcadia for so cents. The two
cockerels looked exactly alike. never
could tell the 50-cent Brahma from the
fve-dollar one. Neither could Ebenezer
nor Hank. Like flash decided on my
course.
Which Brahma died, Ebenezer?" l
asked.
Il think it was the five-dollar
rooster" he replied.
"Ebenezer," said /, severely, you al
ways said you never could tell those
cocks apart. This was when they both
were alive. Now one of them is dead.
How do you compare them, may ask?
How can you tell which is which-or
how could you tell which was which
when one is dead and the other alive?-
or the other is dead and the one is alive?
How can you have the gall to say now
which one of them is dead?"
Ebenezer wavered, wobbled, and
weakly stammered: Il dunno"
"Of course you don't know" said I.
But l know That five-dollar breed OF
Brahmas is the most long-lived bird
there is. 1t was the other one that died.
Will you remember that, Ebenezer?"
Eyes, sir. You mean the four-bit
rooster is dead, don't your"
Eyes," replied, "and don't you for
get it,"
There was silence for few moments.
Then l began again.
"Ebenezer," said l, why did you
bring this trap instead of the surrey?"
Surveys gone"
"Gone!" l cried, gone where? Is it
stolep?"
"No-burned."
Burned? What burnt it2"
why, the fire."
what fire?"
Ebenezer turned round in his seat and
stared at me. why, the fire in the
barn."
as the barn burned DOWN."
why, yass-a month ago."
"Was the house burned?"
Nope"
Horses burned?,
Nope"
"Any other traps burned?"
"Nope-they got all the other wagons
out"
But you and Hank used to sleep up
stairs in the carriage-house. Was Hank
destroyed"
Nope" replied Ebenezer, gravely,
"me and Hank was saved. San Fran