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Show THE WESTERN WEEKLY. wallpaper ncn mother! The nearer and nearer. sure of them. hunter came He thought he She seemed powerless was to shield them, or get them out of his reach. | But she could not flee without them. i= | She tried again. She lay down and reached S| her fore-foot Perticklers, are ye asken’? Well, ’m half ashamed to tell ’em; « Though I could slide off some incidents as slick as slippery ellum: Fer instance;—I was pickin’ hops once, up in Franklyn County, — When a little boy came likewise to partake the deacon’s bounty. Father’n mother both was dead: an’ the kid was left to tussle With Deacon Graybeard an’ the world, without no bone nor muscle. His grit was good, though; tell ye what, there wan’t no better picker; Nor none that worked more patiently; nor none that worked no quicker. But Deacon Graybeard never thought that no one did his level Unless he kep’ a pickin’ every minute, like the-—— From half-past four in the mornin’ until half-past seven at night; You’d got to dust yourgelf Gy keep him @ol + : amvway polite =». ont , One day ‘twas dark and cut, an ent wind wads blowin’ chalye“@ 0." Feaked kid looked "Sa ttngmustitube feelin’ il]; ‘But the deacon never noticed whe that, so long’s he kep’a workin’, An’, I swan, the plucky little chap ‘no idee o’ shirkin’. had By-an’-by it began to rain, an’ kep’ a growin’ colder, An’ every minute seemed as if that boy grew ten years older. I couldn’t stand it nohow; so I traveled to the shed, And carried in the little kid; (he aught ter been in bed.) Twan’t five minutes by the clock, when we heard old Graybeard holler. The boy was scared, and started out: I held him by the collar. Up came the deacon swearin’ mad; “Gole darn ye, go to pickin’!” “You tetch that little kid,” says I, “one on us takes a lickin’.” “You ain’t no Christian man,” I says; “He’s sick, and see how’t’s rainin’,” “None o’ your business;” deacon says— “The orphan ain’t complainin’.” With that he raised his cowhide boot to emphasize his meanin’, swift, sure- ON BEING PLEASANT. Says Mr. Thackery about that nice boy, Clive Newcomb, “I don’t know that Clive was especially brilliant, but he was Occasionally we meet people to whom it seems to come natural to be pleasant; such are as welcome wherever they go as the flowers in May, and the most charming thing about them is that they help to make other people pleasant too. Their pleasantness is contagious. The other morning we were in the midst of a three days’ rain. The fire smoked, the dining room was chilly and when we assembled for breakfast, papa looked rather grim, and mamma tired, for the baby had been restless all night. Polly was plainly inclined to fretfulness, and Bridget was undeniably cross, when Jack came in with the breakfast rolls from the baker’s. He had taken off his rubber coat and boots in the entry, and he came in rosy and smiling. “Here’s the paper, sir,” said he to his father with such a cheerful tone that his father’s brow relaxed, and he said, “Ah, Ji ack, thank you,” quite pleasantly. is mother looked up at him smiling, he anche just touched oe cheek gently as he passed. “The top of the morning to you, Pollywog,” he said to his little sister, and delivered the roll to Bridget, with a “Here you are, Bridget. Aren’t you sorry you didn’t go yourself this beautiful day?” He gave the fire a poke and opened a damper. The smoke ceased; and presently the coals began to glow and five minutes after Jack came in, we had gathered around the table and were eating our oatmeal as cheerily as possible. This seems very simple in the telling. Jack never knew he had done any thing at all, but he had in fact changed the whole moral atmosphere of the room, and had started a gloomy day pleasantly for five people. “He is always so,” said his ‘Just so sunny and MOTHER. A hunter on the mountains of Austria saw a chamois with her two little ones. her little ones how to leap across a chasm to another rock. But they were too o (Gastron young for enough this. They to follow her. were not be the said Mr. means any Barnes. what that “Acclimate means to get used to the climate,as you would have to do if we moved to Cuba. They bring plants and animals here from all parts of the world, and get them used to the climate of Paris, if they can.” : They left the carriage, and took a queer horse-car to the middle of the garden. Here they were much pleased. Mr. Barnes took Ella,and Mrs. Barnes Fred. It required several hours to see all the strange creatures, and to visit the stables where the finest cows are kept, the milk from which is sold in the $380 Prize Story. On December 15TH, Toe WESFERN Pay A Prize $380 WEEKLY wit OF city. There was an elephant. with a houdah, orcar,on his back,in which were six children. The funniest turnout was a buggy drawn by an ostrich, with two ladies and two children in it. Patient camels, with little boys and girls on their backs,amused Fred. He and his sister rode on the elephant, in the ostrich buggy, and after a team of deer. At one of the ponds they fed the swans with the bread Maria had given them. Though they were very tired by this time, it was hard work for papa and mamma to get them into the car- riage. | —& BSO.0CO a Fox mae BEST “QHRISTMAS STORY” © Five THovusanp: To Six THousanpD FOR PUBLICATION IN ITS Worps, FURNISHED CHRISTMAS NUMBER. ‘Pe a They rested till nine o papa took them to see t the Rue de Buci. The lively, and a gentleman ef none with temper. a kinder as he saw to dance with him ment. In the Boulevard St. Micha’ all the trees hung with paper of ared and yellew color,so that the looked like big oranges. By this time they were tired enough to go to bed. —Our Little Ones. y..\ aut ~~” ie OM. 3 BSEO0.00 = In accordance with the oft-repeated request of Jenny Lind, the patch-work quilt which was made and presented to her by the children of the Untted States: was buried with her. A BEST “NEW YEAR’S POEM” oF TO A Hunprep Lines, FURNISHED ‘FOR PUBLICATION IN Irs NEw kind and ready all heart or Year’s NuMBER. ANKSGIVING Srory. On at Work. NovemBer 15tru, Toe Pay GREAT DAY $10 a sweeter I am sure of that.”—Christian A «& m the time. JI suppose there are more brillant boys in the world than mine, but WESTERN A PRIZE WEEKLY wit ope IN PARIS. “Is it Independence Day ?” asked Ella. “Tt is called the Fete Nationale.” “Weare inthe Champs Elysee now. On the other side of the river is the Champ de Mars, where about thirty thousand soldiers will be reviewed this CHAMOIS would Acclimation,” mother, The mother-chamois saw him. At first she rushed towards him with her head lowered, as if she meant to push him off the rocks with her horns. But she soon saw it was useless. She turned back, and tried to show THE in English when I spoke to her about it afterwards, day.” it. of up to better,” pouted Fred. them; but she made the leap, and, once across, the little ones ran by her side. Away she fied with them, bounding from rock to rock. Soon they were far beyond the hunter’s rifle-— Our Little Ones. pleasant.” name “T don’t know had come almost perilous rocks. twas he himself begun When they picked him up next mornin’, he was cold, and stiff, and whitenin’; An’ the coroner fetched a verdict, “Accidental death by lightnin’!” Cultivator. 1 them,—the “The $60 IN PRIZES. ice-cream in the Swiss cot- Garden He made his way towards them as fast ashe could, climbing the »fLeoR and would have kicked the little kid but for my intervenin’. IT hit him harder than I meant; I hadn’t ought to done it; But when he kicked that orphan boy, ate They understood her; they knew there was danger. They sprang on her back. anxious, entreating an Fred Barnes and his sister Ella were living with their father and mother at the Hotel du Mont Blane, in Paris. “Where is Fred ?” asked Mr. Barnes. “Here I am!” shouted that young gentleman, coming out of the dining-room, holding a paper bag, which Maria, the waitress, had. filled with pieces of bread. A carriage was engaged, and Mr. Barnes, who spoke French, told the coachman to drive on. “This is the fourteenth of July, which is the Fourth of July for France. Ninety-nine years ago today the people of Paris captured the Bastile,—a great prison where men who were against the rulers were kept. This was the beginning of the French Revolution. The people have celebrated the event of this And fall, and tage. way. She looked back to her little ones in The hunter Some folks thinks there ain’t no roughs this side the Rocky Mountains Where agents hold up tenderfeet beside them Geyser fountains; But I have worked in York State, and found hearts just as stony Growin’ around these Eastern farms, as out in Arizony. It is a beautiful place, and for an hour the family rode through its grand avenues, looked at the two lakes, with bridges and boats, saw the water- At last they came to the Jardin d’Acelimatation. Thisis a big word and the children did not understand it. to the rock beyond. She leaped with footed chamois. The Little Kid in the Hop-Yards. across the chasm soon passed into the Bois de Boulogne, which is the great park of Paris. PRC Poor ONES. eae lkinz kE Our afternoon,” continued Mr. Barnes. When the carriage came to the Arc de Triomphe it turned to the left, and/ —3 BA O.OO 113 Main Street, Ogden, tah, For tHe BEST “Thanksgiving Firreen;Hunprep W. WooDRUFF, President. B. H. ScHETTLER, Asst. 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