Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — In Nature’s Paths. [ARTICLE]

In Nature’s Paths.

“Why % ” asked the Mole, pausing in the midst of an excavation contract which nobody wanted him to continue, while he leisurely conversed with the Eagle, in order to kill the working time that bangs so heavily upon the ennui stricken hands of the day laborer. “Why do you sit gazing so steadily up into the dim blue ether?” “Because,” replied the king of birds, who was too Hy to get stuck on a simple band woven conundrum, “it is a soar spet with me.” So saying ho picked up the t.umble Delver of the soil, and made ;t sore for him. This fabula doccts . Imt when a man asks a conundrum he hould be ready to dive into the bomb proof as he perfects the alignment of his closing sentence. —Burdette in Urooklyn Eagle.