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Show 4 t a VOL I. Hebekx Wasatch County, Utah, Monday, August 18, 1890. No. 9. LISTEN If anything unkind youhcm -- Aboutsomeone you knowrmy dear, Dornot, I pray you; it repeat When that some one chance to meet; For such news has a leaden way Of clouding o're a sunny day. But, if you.something plesant hear About some one you know my dear Make haste to make great haste twere 7 -- . well 5 1 To her or him. the same to tell; v For such news has a golden way Of lightning up a cloudy day. TAN, THE TAME FOX. p Tam became a household pet; usually "Be was as well content to femain with- -' " on in the yard, but times the wild instinct born in him, which no amount of domestication could, wholly eradicate, got the better of him, and the sly creature would dart out and off to the woods, and be gone all day, to the despair of his little mistress.. But at nightfall he stalked backfired, and generally halfJamished , when a gre it tune was made over him. Feduand petted and cleaned up, he was with great rejoicing on an put old quilt in a corner of the kitdien,. Naturally young Reynard had a great antipathy to dogs, and kept out of their But he was not without courage, way- as. we discovered to our sorrow, vhen he. was about a year old. One unlucky was slyly prying around the dog day-hkennel, when. Big, Bounce, the watch in-doo- , dog, who, in his vigilance appeard, as, a rule, to deep with one eye open, rous- - . Aid up and leapthl after him with tremen- ;fdous bounds; Instead of fleeing to the bouse for safty, as he was in the habit of7doing,Tan turned on the dog with the fury of a tiger, and clawed "at his eyes. The fur flew on both sides, Bounce putting in most brutal work, and before any one could interfere, he had seized poor Tan by the neck and shaken him to death. His lit tie mistress wept piteously over the mangled remains of her pet she was indeed, inconsolable and I never have . since been able to persuade her to have another ot any discription. Poor Tan's affectionate disposition and sprightly ways were very attractive, and we missed him greatly; I would, gladly .have replaced him, but as foxes grow more scares every year I have never been, able to do so. rs - The End. . YEARS OF PLENTY AND YEARS OF SHORT. bed-waggle- d, , to-be- e .They tell in the history of. Egypt of of seven years of plenty and seven years of famine. How the Egyptians, prepared by good advise, unng the years of , plenty for the hard time which followed, maybe it isn't so, bering anyhow. season of waterAvas scarce The ranges were were poor. but it is worth. rememLast year we had a the short, and the crop poor. poor and the cattle, - , continued on next page. c0 V.-- V |