Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1888 — [?]le Tales for Lfttle Childres.. [ARTICLE]

[?]le Tales for Lfttle Childres..

1. Here wo have an album. It is ful it pictures for little children with dirty Angers to look ak Here are two pictures trf papa. This is one of him before ho was married io mamma. He looks like fi two-year-old colt behind a band of lassie. Here is a picture of papa after he had married mamma. Now he looks like a government mule hauling a load of pig iron. See if you can put vour finger on the aose ana the eyes and the Mouth of each picture. Turn down » leaf when you come to a pretty picture you like. The baby is eating bread and snolasses. Lot him take the album and look at the pictures, too. 2. This is a lamp. It is full .J nice, yellow oil. Can you light the lamp? If there is too much oil pour some of it in the stove. Mamma will not miss the oil J you pour it in the stove, but she may miss you. A little oil on the carpet is not a bad thing for the oil, but it is e bad thing for the carpet and you. 3. Do not make a noise or you vill wake the policeman. Ha is sitting on the doorstep asleep. It is very hard on him to have to sleep out of doers these cold nights. There is a hank being robbed around the corner and a woman s being killed in the next block. If the policeman waked up he might find it out aud arrest somebody. Some people believe this is what policemen are for, but the policemen do not think so. . 4. Who is this creature with long hair and a wild eye ? He is a poet. He writes poems on spring and women's eyes and strange, unreal things of that kind. He s always wishing he was dead, but he weahiii’t let anybody kill him if he could got a way. A mighty good sausage-stuffw was spoiled when the man became a noet. He would look well standing untei a descending pile-driver. 5. The girl is at the gate. A young *r<xn is coming down the lane. The girl’s plipa is sitting on the front porch. He is v. ry old. He has raised a family of iievuu children. What is the poor old non thinking about, and why does he <aze m intently at his right boot? Maj be ■?e ia thinking about raising the young nan who ic coming down th» lana.’wrer