Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — A YOUNG NATURALIST. [ARTICLE]

A YOUNG NATURALIST.

Milwaukee Lad Who Got llis liifjim*— tion from Origin il Sources. Up on the Fast side lives a sutalti boy, who, 1 suppose, is no more tru.eE. than most young savages of six, but. whose experiments in vivisection arcr slowly driving itis tender-hearted! mother to despair. I’unishinont ha® so far proved futile. You can’t do* much with an amateur scientist who*, being banished to the nur»«ry for dissecting a caterpillar in the back yard,, continues his biological investigatio® by dismembering the flics on the window pane. The time that that happened, his mother attempted to appeal to his sympathy. “Just think, Teddy, for a minut® of what you have done,” she said, pointing out fehe shattered remain® of an unfortunate insect. “That, probably was a mamma fly, and they have such big, big families in FlylancK that I expect therein re a hundred baby' flies without a mamma just now.” The devastator of happy insect! homes looked up cheerfully. “Then they’re orphans, ain’t: they?” he remarked, sweetly, “and I never saw the insides of orphan flies. laH’s go and catch that hundred.”— Milwaukee Sentinel.