Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-02-17
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THE PRISONER.
You have a little prisoner;
/ He's nimble. sharp and clever,
He's sure to get away from you,

And when he once gets ont, he makes
More trouble in an hour
Than you can stop in many a day,
Working with all your power.
He sets your playmates by the, ears,
He says what isn't so,
And uses many ugly words
Not good Tor you to know.
Quick. fasten tight the ivory gates,
And chain him while he's young!i
For this same dangerous prisoner
ds just your little tongue!
Southern Churchman.
THE CHlLDRENss CHICKENS.
Dave and Miriam had been cos.
setting some tiny orphan chickens IN
a box behind the kitchen stove. One
morning, after frosty night, they
found. to their: great distress. that
the chickens had died close to the
water the children had given them
to drink.
tSy WIN u JAIL tNSO ridtCyc w uCtt
they only meant to drink, and then
the frost stiffened them up; explain-
ed their father, who had just como
in. You see they missed their real
mother. Those outside in the coop
are right enough"
Come and see them!" said Miii.
am.
It comforted them to watch them
running In and out, and listening to
the mother hens call.
What's going into that second
COOP? 2" asked Dave next day.
That's for Pecky. Gather says,
when she's Matched out. Plym will
have company then,
She's get plenty company now,
I think, with nine babies to look at.
ter, was Dawes answer.
In a day or two, Pecky came with
her family. 1t soon got warm and
sunny. and they were let out before
noon.
Come children, you must help ms
get the hens In" and their mother
called them from the garden. Peckyl
got into Plym's coop, which she tried
to do yesterday"
II saw Pecky peck at Plym, with
such cross voice. said Dave. He
drove Pecky out OF the woodshed,
twhere the coops were,) and kept her
ont. Miriam watched, hidden by the
wood. while poor Plym yentured In
to eat the wheat mother had encour.
aged her with She peeped in, then
looked all round, and was afraid to
go in, for. fear OF cross Pecky. for
I'm hour said Miriam afterwards.
st only seemed SO, you know. So
FL. did to- me, watching Pecky. Dave
said in q grown-up way. 81
The children had been -out visiting
at a neighbours. '.Pecky keeps ON act
ing very mean, !" mother told them,
when home again. well have to
move her coop away
-Muvver. sshe' must be like Mrs;
Smith, that we heard Mrs. Brown
talk about She minded me OF Pecky,
directly"
There you see children. said
father, who had Just came in to sup,
per. what It is to give way to cross
feelings when people are young. Mrs.
Smith did that when ! knew her years
ago; and now those bad feelings
have mastered Mrs. Smith. wouldn't
be like cross hen, II ! were you"
Dave looked little ashamed, for
he knew, Though his father didn't
that he had been cross to Miriam.
When could Pecky do, Mower, to
get better tempered 2, asked the lit
tie girl. 81
sPecky, could do nothing. because
she is only hen: but there's some
thing that all the Jamies and Davies,
and Marys and Mirtams can do In
their morning prayer, they can say,
and really wish 1t, Jesus make me
loving all day And then when they
begin to feel cross with anybody they
can stop saying anything out loud.
and say and wish to themselves:
Jesus make me loving now!' Then
they can begin to talk about some
thing else. There's always lots for
little -people to talk about That
way they'll never grow up like
Pecky, or Mrs; Smith either"
At bedtime she taught them this
little verse-prayer, and bid them to
say 1t over and over every night till
they went to sleep:
eLet Love through words and ac-
lions run, I
Let all my thoughts be kind,
Copy the blessed Jesus child.
The Savior of mankind.
Oregon. A. N. In the Indiana
Farmer.
A BR'ER BEAR TALE.
There was an old story Of the Plan.
tation OF Br'er Bear. not Teddy Bear,
which ran thus In plantation iargon,
as told by Martha Young In the Met
rcpohtan Mag azine. Z:
Happen one day Mister Man went
outer his house widont airy dog or
Marry gun I'm all negro folklore Mis-
ISter Man ls supposed to be white and
owner OF all things).
Mister Man amt gone fur TO he
coome up on Bre'er Bar. Bre'er Bar
he been long time lookin' fer des
some sech OF a mishappen chance to
fall on Mister Man. Mister Man done
80 often made meat outer Br'er Bars
brudders dat Br'er Bar been watch
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