The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-03-02

, pulse of the past and to waken in our
t pulse of the past ind to waken in our
hearts the echoes of the days that
, are no more. 4e
The small boy is, in all probability,
, a prehistoric animal, for we have
, traces of him at the very dawn of
history; we find here and there his
! footprints along the sands of tlme we
, know they are his, because there is
, only the impression of three toes, the
other two being stubbed and wrapped
in cotton. wonder If any distin-
guished gentleman present ever stub.
bed his toe in his youthful days, and
said ''gee whiz," or words to that ef-
feet, more or less.
I do not doubt that he threw rocks
over the fence at the apples as they
hung in abundance in the Garden of
Eden; that he guyed Noah as he
wrought on the ark, intimating that
in his opinion there wouldn't be much
of a shower, but that he afterwards
took passage with him in the ark;
played with the monkeys, rode the
elephants, and slept with the dogs,
and used up Noah's supply of worms
fishing out of the window; that he
was the first to sight and land on
Mount Ararat, and finding there a tin
can attached it to the dogs tail; that
he. sat upon the blocks Of Marble and
watched, with critical eye, the con-
struction of the Tower Of Babel, and
added in no small degree. to- the con.
fusion of tongues, by calling out in
derision more mort" that he enjoy
ed the discontinue of Pharaoh by the
plaques; that he took a prominent
part in the forty years. march and
wanderings of the children of Israel
in the wilderness, threw rocks at the
quails, greedily gathered and ate
more than his share of the mama and
was made sick, hence the origin of
the expression, which has chung to
him to the present day. fill, man,
nered;" that he entered - ,sesk and
gs.see ias = ~ofsi ; c.le ol3sn
Calf, drew pictures of cats and dogs
on the walls of the Tabernacle, play.
ed leap frog on Sinai, and when, at
last, the journeyings were ended and
the waves of the Jordan were rolled
back, that the children might pass
over on dry land, he went either up
or down the stream piece and swan
across, in time to be among the first
to reach the Promised Land" and to
secure for himself bunch of the
grapes of Eschol. He was present
when Joshua commanded the sun to
stand still, but was not the son COM
manded, for Joshua was a better Judge
of human nature, than to attempt so
impossible task as to compel a
small boy to stand still; that he took
hand and blew a horn at the de.
structiOn of the walls of Jericho, and
IN fact, has taken hand and blown
his horn in all of the prominent events
OF history, sacred or profane, from
creation to the present time.
Adam is the only man whose name
is recorded in history with the
possible exception of DR.. Mary
Walker), who was not at one time,
or other, small boy and the sequel
of Adams life demonstrates the
necessity of that period and its ex-
periences, for had he ever been a small
boy, his taste for apples would have
been satisfied lin measure) in
youth and he would have been able
to resist the temptation to eat them
in his maturer years. The mOmory of
the aches and pains of that formative
period, would have nerved him to
say NO.
can claim with perfect candor and
truthfulness for my subject, that he
goes all the gaits,' and climbs all
the fences and nearly all of the trees,
and quite a few of the lightning rods
and telephone poles; have seen him
engaged in pugilstic encounter at
8 a. M; in Sunday-school at 8; at
taching can to a dogs tail at 10;
sitting demurely in the family pew.
and dreaming dreams, no mortal
ever dared to dream before" at IL;
eating meal that would tax the
digestive organs of a whale at 70;
throwing rocks over the fence at the
neighbours cat at 1; practicing bare
back riding on the COW at 2; listening
to the story of the good and bad little
boy. as read by mother at 3: walking