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Show FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. ! SOME GOOD STORISS FOR OUR JUNIOR READERS. j Tf I The Toilsome Tasks ,i equired by Gyp- ! sies of Their Child i If a Boy Gets j the Worst End orj Horse Trade His j Father Whips Hip. 1 KNIGHT OF H OBBY-HORSE. He rode away wiih.' flashing eyes To fight in distant ( lands; His charger was a ' coal-black steed, His sword was in his hands. "I may be gone a hundred years," He said, "and so farewell! The papers 1 shall send to you, My valiant deeds will tell." His mother waved a last good-by And sped him on hi way. "When you come back to me," she cried, "'Twill be a happy' day!" He rode across the nursery, And through the i garret dim, Then paused to view the country round Beyond the window's rim. The day was warm, he journeyed far; He said, "I'll rest awhile, And then again my steed and I Will ride full many a mile." They found him there as night came on, I His flashing eye;.' were closed; With arms aroun d his charger's neck The warrior rep' ed. J Youth's Companion. but it makes me rested, after a k.ar day's work, if I can find some good cause for saving a man's life, and I go to bed happy, as I think how joyous the signing of my name will make him and his family and his friends." Many instances of this are told of him. Here is one: "One day the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens called with an elderly lady in great trouble, whose son had been in the army, but for some offense had been tried by court-martial and sentenced sen-tenced either to death or imprisonment at hard labor for a long term, I do not recollect which. There was some excuse, and after a full hearing the President said: 'Mr. Stevens, do you think this is a case which will warrant my interference?' 'With my knowledge of the facts,' was the reply, T should have no hesitation in granting a pardon. par-don. 'Then,' returned Mr. Lincoln, 'I will pardon him,' and he signed forthwith forth-with the paper. The gratitude of the mother was too deep for expression, save by her tears, and not a word was said between her and Mr. Stevens until un-til they were half-way down the stairs on their passage out, when she suddenly sud-denly broke forth, in an excited manner man-ner with the words: 'I knew it was a copper-headed lie!' 'What do you refer re-fer to, madame?' asked Mr. Stevens. 'Why, they told me he was an ugly-looking ugly-looking man,' she replied with vehemence. vehe-mence. 'He is the handsomest man I 'ever saw in my life.' " Jokes at the expense of his personal appearance never bothered Mr. Lincoln; in fact, he rather enjoyed them. He used himself to tell this incident! "In the days when I used to be 'on the circuit,' I was once accosted in the cars by a stranger, who said, 'Excuse me, sir, but I have an article in my possession which belongs be-longs to you.' 'How is that?' I asked, considerably astonished. , The strangei took a jack-knife from his pocket 'This knife,' said he, 'was placed in mj hands some years ago, with the injunction in-junction that I was to keep it until I found a man uglier than myself. I have carried It from that time to this. Allow me now to say, sir, that I think you are fairly entitled to the property.'" GYPS 1 CHlI.DREJf. Whenever there is atrail over which a wagon may rtfss there the Gypsy travels, and with him goes his family, in which children, hdrses and dogs are about equally numerous. " They are the most traveled children in the world, these youngsters of the snug and gaudy wagons, and that reg on through which they once go they intimately know, not as more fortunate children know it, from guide books or the lips of others, but from varied and perhaps bitter experience of its ups and downs, its fair and foul weather, and its friendly or unfriendly folk. In the wilds of the sharp-ridged Alleghenies or on the sun-beaten trails of the great prairies, they are as much at home as in camp one outskirts of New totk, Chicago otXi. Louis. It is a wild and vaiiejHif" ''iTiZl"?!? fcp No means anW omt.Except "OiuXj. I tie 1, i.ij " "i 'f. j 1 i 1 the chil-dif chil-dif are dfi trained to the hardy THE ORIOLE'S PERIL. A community of birds had established establish-ed themselves in a certain grove, birds of many kinds orioles, robbins, blackbirds, bluebirds, catbirds. There were three pairs of the orioles, each pairwith their nest in a different tree, but all close together, and all on good terms. -And they were on good terms .-jheir neighbors, too, though the u. r..-r.e biTS. !.' . u 'jccasionaily got into ' trouble by coming; too near the'ofioies1 nests. One day tie whole community life 'hey mV.t lead. Only "the ambulators'; am-bulators'; (as the Gypsies contemptuously contemptu-ously it a class of wagon-wanderers upon witJm even the tramps look down) let their little ones grow up with no more training or instruction than if they were animals. In a repre-; repre-; sentative Gypsy ' caravan out on the trail, every human being more than was found to be in an uproar, screaming scream-ing and flying about in a state of great excitement, the cause of which was soon discovered. One of the female orioles or-ioles had got her head caught in the sharp fork of a limb, and there she hung, fluttering, and unable to help herself. Thf birds of every kiud had assembled around her, and were as much excited and as incapable of rendering ren-dering assistance as a crowd of human beings would have been under similar circumstances. They merely dashed about from place to place, and fluttered flut-tered and screamed; all, that is to say, "except the other two female orioles, which tried to release the captive by dashing at her and pulling at her taij-feathers. taij-feathers. This, however, seemed only to wedge her more tightly In the fork., Meanwhile, the three male orioles sat side by side on a near-by limb, not making a move of any kind. The witness wit-ness of the strange scene was surprised sur-prised to see them inactive at such a time, but they must have been taking counsel with each other, for presently present-ly one of them flew to the place whers the captive was hanging, and straddling strad-dling the fork that held her head, he caught her by the back of the neck and gave her a tug that pulled 'her free. Then he dropped her; out she recovered recov-ered herself immediately, and flew to a limb, where she began arranging her rumpled feathers. Philadelphia Times. four years old has his or her allotted work. Often the tasks of the children are harder than those of their elders. At sunup they are astir, for the true Gypsy starts early to make half his day's distance before the overhead sun makes travel irksome. Out of the wagon, or perhaps from under it, if tae night has been warm and fair, tumble the boys and scatter through the dew-beaded grass this one to look to the horses, that one to gather dry wood for the breakfast, another to gather whatever seasonable wild fruits are to be found; a fourth to carry buckets of water. If the water near which the camp is-pitched is fish-inhabited, there is a joyous morning's task in catching the speckled trout ' and the gamy bass, or if not these at least the hungry and gayly-hued little ' sunfish. Meantime there is plenty to occupy their sisters. Breakfast things must be got out and in order; shawls, curtains and bedding must be spread in the sun, and the wagon put to order, Just as if it were a house instead of a household on wheels. The true Gypsy A VERY NAUGHTY DOIX. Here is a story of a little girl who had been misbehaving, and for punishment punish-ment her mother threatened to go away and leave her. The little girl , was sitting on the floor playing with her doll while mother was putting on her bonnet. "Give me a kiss, mamma, before you go away," she said. "No, not one. I couldn't kiss anyone who has been so naughty," answered her "mother, and by this time her bonnet was on;' and she was in the act of ttpenlng the door when she heard her little girt-say to .henldoll: "You are a very,naughty dqll.- Jessie,., and I will go away and leave you until you are good. No, 1 will not' give you one kiss, ytiu'ar' sd'haughtyf ' I'll' 'Just 'put' on my hat and go with mamma," and she 'did? for1 mamma 'was" not able to cope wit'h:tb.is "brilliant piece of strategyj ' is not a slovenly person. He takes pride in the neatness of his wagon and his fellow-Gypsies judge him from it; so his wife trains the children to be good housekeepers. After breakfast Is over and the things cleared up the family takes the road. This is the part that' the Gypsy boy enjoys, for there is usually1 'several spare horses, and he has the .gjory of, riding one of them. And early: .haje-gejqp's, into, an expert horseman, andv it the tr.uh f old, an unscrupulous horse ; trader, , , ( It... is .no unusual thing to see a twelveryear-old boy chaffering with' some: TBharp-taced tnpunta'iheer; old ' enough to'' be1 his grandfather;" byer! it proposed . ,swap" Qf a, more, or less broken-idpvn .orse for a. sturdy native trotting, muleonIf the boy .gets- the .best of the, trade,, as usually happens, all is well.:!. II it goes the other way the young trade? comes iti for a' severe beating from fiisatlJ- 9''"' ABOUT PRBSiDfeNT-'r.lNOOLS;.157'' "! ;T?residetit -Lincdln. wa's lyexji ;, teftder-bear.tecL,.and teftder-bear.tecL,.and never refused, an audience to.any i0.ne.,who .came, to, a?k pardpn, f or ome; offender.,: Speaking cof the large number of cases owithj-which -ha .had dealt ia'!fhfs- Mtcfi "hsald !Som of ;jny 'generals-8 cbmplairithat "Isimpa!ri discipline ;in'tne'army t)y my' pardons;1 |