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CAUSEANDEFFECT.
Heboltsasandwichandsomebeans,
Apieceortwoof pie;
Andgulpsacupfulofcoffeedown
Whileyoucanbatyoureye.
Then, later on, there comes to him
A very common question;
He wonders how it was that he
Contracted indigestion.
—Milwaukee Sentinel.
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A HERO IN BLACK.
I was some hundreds of yards from
the edge of a steep bluff when a sharp
ka-ka! made me turn quickly. From
some pine woods behind me two crows
darted out and rushed for the bluff,
crying a loud warning at every flap
of their wings. Whether they were
sentinels or not, I do not know; but
they certainly knew where the flock
was hidden, all unconscious of dan
ger, and the moment I appeared run
ning for the bluff they darted in ahead
of me to give the alarm. I watched
them curiously as they sped straight
for the spot, struggling desperately
against the gale and sounding the dan
ger-note in a continuous cry. I look
ed to see the flock rise clamoring over
the bluff; but they were hidden too
deep to hear, and the wind carried
away the sentinels’ alarm.
The two watchmen had not forgot
ten their caution and were evidently
aiming to pass well out of range; but
they forgot the gale, and in every
squall they were pushed steadily to
leeward. As they crossed in front
of me a gust of wind flung them up
almost over my head. The gun spoke
once, and the leader tumbled headlong
at my feet. The second barrel missed
fire, and* the other crow whirled in a
panic over my head and darted back
for the woods whence he had come.
I was running forward, when again
the sharp ka-ka! ka-ka! sounded be
hind me; and I turned to see the sec
ond crow heading like an arrow for
the bluff, sounding his alarm-note as
he came on. I stopped again to watch
with intense interest as he neared the
flock. He was closer to the ground
this time and flying more swiftly; but
again he made the same sad blun
der. The gale drove him steadily to
leeward, and as he crossed before me
a furious blast hurled him up over
my head. The gun-sight covered him
swiftly; and then, so near was he, I
saw his - wild, frightened eyes looking
straight into mine along the saining
gunbarrels. What he tnought or felt,
who can tell? There, just beyond, he
saw his fellow-sentinel lying still, a
drop of bright red clinging to the
point of his dark beak, the rough wind
ruffling his glossy blue-black feathers;
here beneath him was the man who
had done it, who could do it again;
and there —
He whirled wildly at thought of the
unconscious flock and sounded the
alarm-cry at the top of his lungs. Had
I pressed the trigger curling snugly
under my finger, that cry to others to
save themselves would have been his
last. However poor and blind tfce un
derstanding behind those frightened
eyes, he could still see a duty to his
fellows and be faithful, crying out to
them to escape even at the terrible
moment when death reached up from
below to cut him down. It all occurred
In an instant; but in that instant I had
some thoughts and a whole lot of feel
ings, and the first and last of them
was that a man must not shoot a bird
like that. Slowly the gun came down;
my eyes folowed him with wonder and
admiration as panic seized him again
at sight of the man and his dead
mate, and he whirled away on the
squall.
The crows heard him this time and
gave heed on the instant. How much
did he understand of what he had
done? That is a question which only a
crow could answer. Only a poor hun
gry crow, of course, and we don’t know
what goes on in his head. But when
a soldier on the outpost jumps to an
swer a call like that, we understand
exactly where to place him. —W. J,
Long.
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ABOVE SUSPICION.
A superintendent in the elementary
schools of New York City was making
his dreaded rounds among the teach
ers of a girls’ school. Suddenly, as the
New York Times reports it, he open
ed the door of one classroom and spoke
to the teacher in charge.
“What are you doing in nature
study?” he asked.
The teacher hurried out of the room
and returned, carrying a basket of
bones.
“We are taking up the vertebrates,”
she explained.
“Very good,” said the superintend
ent, heartily.
Half an hour later he appeared in a
neighboring room.
“What have you done in nature
study?” he inquired.
The teacher, in her turn, from some
where fetched out a basket of bones.
After a comprehensive glance, the sup
erintendent looked only mildly pleased
at this second evidence of interest in
nature study.
“It seems to me,” he ventured, “that
I have seen this basket of bones in an
other room before.”.
“Sir,” said the teacher, indignantly,
“these are my own bones.”
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CHANCE FOR CONVERSION.
In the ante-bellum days, when Anson
P. Morrill, of Maine, was making his
first run for congress, a henchman of
his opponent met an old minister of
that section slowly jogging along the
road on his old horse, and hailed him
with “Whom are you going to vote
for?” Well,” said the old man, “I
thought I should give Anson a vote.
Anson has good timber in him, I be
lieve.” “Oh, but I don’t see how you
can vote for him. Don’t you know he
is a Universalist? He doesn’t believe
in a hell.” With a quiet twinkle in
his eye the old man said: “We’ll send
him to Washington. When he has
served his two years, if he doesn’t
believe in a hell I shall be very much
surprised.”—Boston Record.
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