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THE CRIPPLED CALF. 
The Jersey calf was crippled: far behind 
The herd she limped ns to and from the field, 
They passed, at morning through the dewy grass 
At night o'er burdened with rhelr fragrant yield, 
She limped along and tried to hold her place 
Though thin and poor, and often in disdain, 
The lordly Hereford turned her great white face, 
Anti ridiculed the crippled Jersey's pain. 
The Short-horn and the Devon laughed In scorn 
To see the cripple hobble far hehlnd, 
They only sought to strike her as she passed. 
They might have used her tenderly and kind. 
“Aha " they sneered “you ‘famous butter row', 
You can’t pay wages with that limping walk, 
You are not worth your salt, we reckon now. 
Its beef and weight and muscle make the talk.’’ 
But one old leruii, the butt of all the herd, 
A poor old battered cow that knew no style, 
Nor pedigree nor polish left the herd 
And walked beside the Jersey all the while, 
And day by duy the patient creature walked 
Beside the calf, and cheered her ou her way, 
She cared not how the pelted "pure bloods" talked 
She knew she was not half so smart n« they. 
And when at night witUlu the dry warm sheds 
They pushed the cripple from their bed so warm, 
The old scrub bowed her meek and patient head 
And stood between the cripple and the storm. 
And 80 until the little Jersey died 
The selfish cows looked for themselves alone 
And still the good old scrub bore out her part 
And dhl her work without complaint or moan. 
But one dark night a fearful storm arose 
The sheds were tossed like playthings on the air. 
And wildly beat the storm upon the eow« 
That huddled wild and unprotected there. 
Then bitterly the petted “pure bloods" tnoaued; 
They knew not how to Stand the cold und rain. 
Their selfish life had sheltered them from harm, 
They felt With double power the touch of pain. 
But turned against the blast, the good old scrub, 
Cared nothing for tire storm, her thank less life 
Had made her stronger than she ever knew. 
She stood unharmed through storm and cold and strife- 
strength only comes from sorrow, he who turns 
Aside to ease the burden of a friend 
Will feel his load grow lighter: we shall need 
The strength tlius gained before we see the end. 
We have been having a teste of the drought 
which the Cousins have been reporting. It 
didn't last loug enough to cause any serious 
damage, but it gave us a good idea of what 
dry weather might be, I don’t think I ever 
lived in a couutry yet where the weather was 
just exactly what I wanted it to lie. I do not 
propose to hunt for sueh a couutry for I am 
convinced it. would take so long to find it that 
all my friends would die before it was found, 
so that I would have to live there alone. The 
best way is to make the best of what we have, 
and he just as contented as possible. 
We think our cat is pretty smart. She had 
five kittens a short time ago and three of them 
disappeared. I think the old cat had an idea 
the others would go in the same way. She 
hid them at any rate, and we could not find 
them for awhile. At last we found them np 
in a tree. Some 15 feet above the ground there 
is a hollow limb and in this safe place Mrs. 
Molly had placed her children. How t do you 
suppose she got them up there? She must have 
held them in her mouth and climbed up the 
trunk of the tree with them. That must have 
been hard work, hut a cat will do almost any¬ 
thing to save her kittens. 
An ant can carry off a piece of food several 
times as large as itself. If an elephant’s mus¬ 
cles could he as strong in proportion, he could 
move a good-sized piece of the world. Sup¬ 
pose a man could have muscles as much 
stronger thau those of an ant as they are larg¬ 
er, suppose his eyes were as much sharper 
thau those of a bee as they are larger, that he 
had the speed of a deer, the hearing of a tat, 
the courage of a lion and the patience of an ant. 
lie would be a wonderful creature, wouldn’t he? 
He wouldn’t be any happier, that 1 can see, 
however. He would be so different from other 
people that ho would have no friends or asso¬ 
ciates. ne would kill everything he touched; 
be would see and hear too many tilings. On 
the whole 1 think such wonderful qualities 
would make a very poor gift if they could be 
given away. That health, strength and prop¬ 
erty are hast which we make ourselves. When 
we see people who are stronger, better and 
smarter than we are* we must not envy them. 
The point is to see why they are smarter or 
better than we are, and go to work to see if 
we cannot find out tlieir secret. 
Japan is a queer country about many things, 
but there are some customs that might well be 
introduced here. The people are very fond 
of birds, aud are glad to have the little 
creatures about them. When the birds come 
to build their nests, the Japanese place boxes 
and baskets, with good nests in them, about 
their houses, so that the birds will come into 
the family. If a bird builds a nest in an ex¬ 
posed situation, a cover is placed over it, aud 
great pains taken to care for the young birds. 
There are many people in this country who 
might well follow the example of the. Japanese 
in this matter. 
Picking up potatoes is about the hardest 
work ou the term to my mind. It is work 
that comes in very handy for the farm-boy• 
He is- sure to be put at it. There will be 
plenty of chauces for him during this month. 
It is back-aching work. I have done lots of it. 
I never saw a man or boy who liked to do it, 
but it has to be done by somebody, and it is 
better to do it without grumbling. 
THEj STORY OF A DISTRICT SCHOOL. 
A COLLEGE BOY’S DIARY. 
(Continued.) 
The only pupil who carried more books than 
dinner wasathiu,delicate-littlegirl, who came 
timidly in and stood on the outside of the 
company about the stove. As soon as she ap¬ 
peared the f recked-facts! girl, who had given 
me the apple, left the stove and danced before 
the newcomer. Not satisfied with dancing, 
she made up a series of horrible faces, by 
placing her thumbs in her mouth and her 
little fingers at the corners of her eyes, and 
pulling the face into a sadly-mixed ex¬ 
pression. 
“ Teacher says I can have your seat! 
Teacher says I can have your seat. Iv’e gut, it 
too. You’ve gut ter set way back yunder. 
Ain’t I glad ! Ain’t I glad !” 
All through this speech she continued her 
dancing. She took one hand away from her 
face to point at the object of her remarks, 
who received this intelligence with evident 
sorrow. Her eyes filled with tears, and her 
lip quivered, as she slowly walked to the un¬ 
inviting seat at the reai- of the room. The 
scholars all laughed at her, and several shout¬ 
ed, “ Cry-baby,” as she passed them. One 
boy reached out his baud to pull her hair as 
she went by him, but, catching my eye, he let 
his arm fall. 
Just as she reached her seat a loud shoutiug 
on the outside attracted the attention of the 
scholars. The.v ran to the window, aud, at 
the sight of two young meu standing in the 
road, rushed out in a body to hold some sort 
of cofisultataon by the broken gate. I watched 
them for a time. There seemed to be some ex¬ 
citing discussion going on. and by the way 
they glanced aud pointed at the school-house, 
I judged that I came in for my full share in 
the talk. 
While they were thus engaged, I walked 
down the aisle to speak to the little girl who 
had lost her seat. She was just drying her 
eyes, and her lip was still quivering. 
“ You musn’t feel badly about the seat, it’s 
first come, first served, you know,” I said, 
thinking some consolation was needed. 
“ But Miss Benson told Mamma that I could 
have it if I could go the whole term without 
being tardy. I don't care about myself, but 
Ma min a is sick and she will feel dreadfully 
about it.” Her mouth began to quiver again 
and her eyes were filled. 
“ Was M iss Benson the last teacher ?” 
“Yes, and she told Mamma over aud over 
again that 1 could have that seat.” 
Perhaps I should have used more policy in 
the matter, but the little girl’s grief touched 
me. Hhe was different from the others, and 
the other girl had acted a lie too. 
“ Take your books and put them in the other 
seat ”—I said at once. 
“ But what will Mollie Bruwu say ?” 
“ Brawn <" That was the name of the dis¬ 
trict bully. If it was his sister, the change 
would mean trouble at once, but I was deter¬ 
mined to make it. 
“ 1 will talk to Mollie. Put her books in 
this desk, aud take yours over there.” 
The change wa-s made as I directed, and the 
little girl sat in her new seat as happy as she 
had before been miserable. 
At nine o’clock 1 rung the bell at the school- 
house door. The scholars reluctantly gave up 
their conference at the gate aud came slowly 
toward the house. The two young men 
walked down the road. After a few steps 
they turned and shook their fists in the direc¬ 
tion of the school-house. 1 was not entirely 
surprised when one of the little boys volun¬ 
teer's! this information: 
“ Yunder’s Jack Bra wn. He’s a whale now, 
you bet. Lie says he’ll hot his boots he can 
whip you with one hand.” 
Several of the larger boys here tried to push 
this informer out of the way. In fact, he 
him.seLf seemed to regret his indiscretion in 
detailing the plans of the enemy. 
The boys all stopped at the uoor to see bow 
1 would take this bit of information. I knew 
that it was necessary for me to say something. 
Experience ha/1 taught me that such people us 
Boar Creek seemed to possess iu quantity al¬ 
ways accept silence as an evidence of coward¬ 
ice.’ In fact, two-thirds of the fighting is al¬ 
ways done with the tongue. So 1 preserved a 
solemn countenance ami merely remarked: 
“Well, boys, 1 don't know what Jack Brawn 
wants to do: but I always fight to kill. You 
never cun find two of us alive after I tight.” 
This piece of bravado had a most decided 
effect. The boys grew respectful at once, i 
knew every word of the speech would be re¬ 
ported to the bully—iu fact, i proposed to 
fight him over the heads of the others if I 
could do it. 
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