THE TRUMPET
EDDY'S TREASURE.
1 ve dot somefin white and warm!
Nobody don't know I've dot it.
Doin up stairs to show mamma
What I've dot in my pottet. S:
Biddy laid it in the barn, j
Hark! she's cacklin' now about
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Tellin' all the other hens ;
- But she'll have to do without it.
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'Cause my mamma wants dat egg,
Make a pie, or else a puddin'i
Cookies, may be ! oh, I know
Lots of sings dat eggs are good
. in. !"'" .
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Tis a real beauty egg !.
You may see it in dus a minute.
Dear ! vat ails my pottet now ?
Somefin wet and stickv in it.
Oh, dear me !' what shall I do?
Egg's all broke wight in my
pottet, . 1
Wish dat silly, cacklin hen
Maked it stronger while she's
'bout it.
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work inside the tambourine move 1 burnt to death?", said ths teacher
just under the membrane, and the
insects, which are made of iron,
follow them.
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A FEW SCRAPS.
Shivers & Burns is the title of a
firm in Wichita, Kan., and be
tween the two they are' able to en-
joy medium weather.
!
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j In the last fourteen years 700
j Protestant chapels have been built
in Madigascar, making the total.
; number at present is 1,200. ' j
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'j The rabbits are eating out) the
I ranchers in Steptoe Valley, White !
j Pine county, Nev. At night they '
; come in whole armies and devour
I the growing crops. j
to me in a commanding voice.
I couldn't tell.
'The next." 1
"Joshua knows," said a little
girl at the foot of the class.
"Well J said the teacher, "if
Joshna knows, he may tell."
"In theTrei" said Joshua, look
ing very solemn and wise.
This was the last question, and
we had liberty to make all the
noise we pleased iwe pleased for
five minutes, and then go home.
yournal of Education.
A CURIOUS CLOCK.
A clock recently patented in
France is in imitatation of a tam
bourine, on the parchment head
of which is painted a circle of
flowers, corresponding to the hour
figures of ordinary dials. On ex
amination two bees, one large ancl
the other small, ; are discovered
crawling among the flowers.
The small bee runs rapidly from
one flower to another, completing
the circle in tin hour, while
lareer one takes; twelve hour
r
the
to
STUPID ED
Elsie Don't you like Ed.
Edith No I don't. j Can cihv of our readers
?S- Wu n- fell us -what country the a-
Edith Well he was calling on . if ! J
me at home last night, and I ! boV 2S a flaZ t- V
undertook to show him how well i ;
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i I !? . 1
Elsie Well what of that?!
Edith A great deal of that. I
just puckered up my lips as sweet
and pretty as-T could and, and then
Elsie Well what then?
Edith He just let me go on and
whistle.
i The httlefolk at the Lincoln-
" j ton Hotel will give an entertairi-
THE LAST QUESTION. j ment at that place to-night, for
We were artanged on the floor I tne oenetjt $t the lhompson Ur-
EITERTAII
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complete the circle. The parch
ment is unbroken and the bees are;
simply laid on top of it, but two
magnets connected w it h the clock-
in front of he visitors on examin
ation day to be looked at, and an
swer such Questions as they or the
teacher sa4' fit to ask.
'Where was Joh.i
Rogers
phanage, Charlotte, N. C.
mission: Adults, to cents,
dren, 5 cent. I
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