The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-04-28

ers do, and the father took the son out
in the back yard and made him swear
across a baseball bat and shinny
club that he would never, never be
careless with the gun, that he always
would put 1t through a fence ahead OF
him and never point IL at anything
he didn't want to kill when 1t wasn't
loaded.
You see, Frank" atnonished the
paternal ancestor, 1T is just when you
think It isn't loaded that it is, and
then somebody has TO pay funeral ex.
penses."
And so the boy promised and be.
gan to put Eagle Eye, the Red Scout,
on the blink for shooting straight He
:igged up feather in tin can and
got so accurate on the trigger that he
could bite the end of the feather of
inch by inch, a la William Tell, and
never touch the picture of the tomato
on the can at all.
But why don't you shoot some rab-
bits for the table," asked father at
the first snow fall, You know how
we all like fresh rabbit Frank Why
don't you so out and do something
worth while? OF course il Is dead
easy for you to get seven or eight
dozen rabbits the way you shoot, but
we don't want that many. Bring home
half dozen. That will be plenty"
Daddy admitted the youth that
night Il went hunting rabbits to-day,
but couldn't see any"
His eyesight continued TO be bad
for several days. 1t wasn't question
of hitting EN-; it was a question OF
finding EN-. Finally some migrating
sportsman tipped It off to Frank where
The rabbits lived
There's about d million of 'em up
there in the grass he told the lad,
and If you get up early in the morn.
ing, you will find them all at the no
,el for breakfast"
That night when Frank retired he
set the alarm clock for four noxt
morning Father came In late from
down town, dead tired lie heard the
clock strike midnight. Then he heard
i strike one O'Clock. After that he
lwoke and heard II strike one again.
but he didn't know whether 1t was
half past one or half past three, any
more than the rest Of MS do when we
hear 1t, so he turned over, swore soft
ly and tried to go to sleep again
lust as we ala do
He had almost drifted into the en-
brace of Morpheus, when, Bang!
ring-a-ling! Brr--r-r-r-r.r.r Bang!
B-rr-r.rrr-r-r-r!' went that alarm in
Franks room
Then the father heard the clock
gasp, like a chicken when you choke
II where It wears beads, and he knew
that mother had flown TO the rescue.
But the clock boted and lei out an
other string as long as five cents
worth of passepartout. Mother said,
"Pshaw!" real solemn like, and
stopped the squawk again-for min.
ute.
BY the time the clock was choked
into submission, father and mother
were both wide awake. Each tried to
go TO sleep again and neither could,
so they got up. They had breakfast
at O'Clock and
did the boy get any rabbts?" you
ask,
Why, of course not! When the
alarm rang. he grunted, turned over In
jed, went to sleep again and had to
be called eleven times to keep him
from being late TO school!
But he's going TO see some rabbits
some day, all right And then, look
out for rabbit stew at his house.
q . G
Not Much.
TITS not much 10 say Tor man that
he never had an enemy" says the New
ton C<nn) Journal "You could write
that over cabbage head. II would be
appropriate In an essay ON mush, or a
panegyric on putty. It makes first
class epitaph above the grave Of an OK
IL you never did anything TO make any
body mad at you, YOU have heen called
a man merely through courtesy You
should apply for place as q dummy in
window OF clothing store"