RECREATION. 



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ESAU BUCK AND THE BUCKSAW. 



An old farmer of Arkansas whose sons 

 had all grown up and left him, hired a 

 young man by the name of Esau Buck to 

 help him on his farm. On the evening 

 of the first day they hauled up a small load 

 of poles, for wood, and unloaded them be- 

 tween the garden and the barnyard. The 

 next morning the old man said to the hired 

 man, 



"Esau, I am going to town to-day, and 

 while I am gone you may saw up that wood 

 and keep the old ram out of the garden." 



When the old man had gone Esau went 

 out to saw the wood, but when he saw the 

 saw he wouldn't saw. When Esau saw 

 the saw he saw that he couldn't saw it 

 with that saw. Esau looked around for 

 another saw, but that was the only saw he 

 saw so he didn't saw. When the old man 

 came home he said to Esau, 



"Esau, did you saw the wood?" Esau 

 said, 



"I saw the wood but I wouldn't saw it ; 

 for when I saw the saw I saw that I 

 couldn't saw with that saw so I didn't saw 

 it." The old man went out to see the saw 

 and when he saw the saw lie saw that 

 Esau couldn't saw with that saw. When 

 Esau saw that the old man saw that he 

 couldn't saw with the saw Esau picked up 

 the axe and chopped up the wood and made 

 a seesaw. The next day the old man went 

 to town and bought a new bucksaw for 

 Esau Buck and when he came Tiome he 

 hung the bucksaw for Esau Buck on the 

 sawbuck by the seesaw. 



Just at that time Esau Buck saw the 

 old buck in the garden eating cabbage, and 

 when driving him from the garden to the 

 barnyard Esau Buck saw the bucksaw on 

 the sawbuck by the seesaw, and Esau 

 stopped to examine the new bucksaw. 

 When the old buck saw Esau Buck look- 

 ing at the new bucksaw on the sawbuck by 

 the seesaw, he made a dive for Esau, hit 

 the seesaw, knocked the seesaw against 

 Esau Buck, who fell on the bucksaw on 

 the sawbuck by the seesaw. When the old 

 man saw the old buck dive at Esau Buck 

 and miss Esau and hit the seesaw and 

 knock the seesaw against Esau and Esau 

 Buck fall on the bucksaw on the sawbuck 

 by the seesaw, he picked up an axe to kill 

 the old buck, but the buck saw him coming, 

 and dodged the blow and countered on the 

 old man's stomach, knocked the old man 

 over the seesaw onto Esau Buck, who was 

 getting up 'with the bucksaw off the saw- 

 buck by the seesaw, crippled Esau Buck, 

 broke the bucksaw and the sawbuck and the 

 seesaw. 



When the old buck saw the completeness 

 of his victory over the old man and Esau 

 Buck and the bucksaw and the sawbuck 

 and the seesaw, he quietly turned around, 

 went back and jumped into the garden 

 again and ate up what was left of the old 

 man's cabbages. — Hartford Times. 



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