The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-09
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FOR YOUNG FOLK

know. At a single sitting Mrs. Bob
White will hatch out from eighteen
to twenty little ones.
How, then. could Mr.. and Mre.
Hob White ever get sufficient bugs
and worms for eighteen or twenty
hungry mouths.
well. they don't. The task would
DO too great. So as soon as tho baby
Bob Whites are Matched. they have
to begin to find their own food or
starve. And whsfe do YOU imagine
they find the queer little breakfast
tables that they Cse?"
II don't know said Phil.
They are the wheat stubbie, and
on these strange tables they find their
food all prepared: they don't have to
Get them at all.
Mrs. Bob White doesn't hatch her
family until near the last of June.
and by that time the farmers ha, e
harvested their wheat. On the stub
ble--the breakfast tables for the lit
tie Bob Whites what is called the
Heesian fly. very small insect. much
like 4 mosquito.
These tiny flies Just wait there.
unless they are ueed for food, until
the new fields are ploughed and the
green wheat blades are up. Thcn
they go there and eat a little house
In these new green blades. and there
they stay through the winter, eating
the sap OF the plant for food: and
thus they tnjure the next years wheat
crop.
when the Hessian fly Is waiting
tor the new wheat to come up. MIR.
and Mrs. Bob White--if they live In
that vicinity--come along with their
family OF boys and girls, and they
tell them In their bird language
very easy for the little ones to un-
dersta nd--each &c find a. table and
eat his breakfast" :.
They are queer little breakfast ta-
bies, surely laughed Phil. And its
queer food. But aren't the little Bob
Xhiiaa useful,
Indeed they are" declared Uncle
Ned. And the more there are Of
them, and the more OF the queer
little breakfast tables they put to
use. the larger will be our wheat
crop. and the ore rolls and cakes
there will be for ourselves to eat.
A. r. Caldwell. in Sunday School
Times.
The New Boys Motto.
After Halstead Murray and Roger
for a place In the First National Bank
in Hughestown. the small city where
they lived. Roger got the place and
came around TO tell Halsfead about
1t. Sorry for you. old fellow" he
said cheerfully; but there was only
one place. you sec, and ] had the
null. You know Mr.. Stevens is one
Of the directors. and my uncle work
ed for him for years. Uncle San
said a good word for me, and there
am
Mr.. Murray wac backing his shoes
when Halstead told him about Roger
Visit. He finished the side OF the
shoe he was rubbing. and then. as ne
dipped his brush In the Hacking
box again, he asked with a quizzica
smile. What did you say to that
why" Hal laughed a little, y
said 1 was glad for him. That wa,
all. There seemed TO be nothing els'
to say"
That's right" said the father, al
he fell to rubbing the second shoe
Wen have to try to catch hold o!
come other rope. boy"
But no other opening appeared, and
Haistead was feeling rather blue
when he received a card asking hin
to call at the bank one day. He
went promptly, and came back with
the great news that Roger had left
and he was engaged in Rogers place
A week afterward he found hi:
Cousin Clara at the table when ht
came home. a little late. to dinner
"Hows banking" she began.
Il can only tell you about ics
banks" returned Hal. cutting his beet
soberly. I'm an ice chopper. ma am
Penn of oil vr1nrntpH"
Clara looked puzzled. Why. you,
mother said you'd gone into the First
National. What do you meant"
I'm hardly in" he said. "I'm rathe,
an outside Clearinghouse. It's storm.
led nearly all the time for a week
you know. and my part Of the bank
ing business Is to keep the bank steps
and sidewalks cleared.
Clara smiled. II see," she said
beginning at the lowest round, and
all that sort Of thing. Too low dowr
for Roger, wasn't tr''
Roger says" replied Hal, that HI
told Mr.. Peters that he could shove
snow anywhere. He came here te
learn banking"
How about YOU" Clara persisted
Haistead hesttated. Then he open.
ed hfa watch at the back and passed
| Il aeHess The table. Engraved ON thu
inner cover were the words lobe,
orders" Father and mother hat
that put on when then they gave ms
the watch. two years ago." he eaid.-
Exchange.
L1ttis Charlie ana jamie were q
the pump tub. trying to wash UP be.
fore dinner, when Jamie ran int
the kitchen exclaiming. "Mamms
Charles metropolixing all that tub.