Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 84, 9 May 1908 — Page 6

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ON the Fourth of July, 1890, in a broad level valley in the heart of Ellermore Land, I came upon a herd of five muskoxen. When they saw v.s they ran together and stood back to back in star form, with heads outward. This is their usual method of defense against walrus, their only encmlei In this land. After they were shot, I discovered two tiny calves, which till then had been iidden under their mothers' hairy bodies. Such funny little coal-black creatures they were, ;with ft gray patch on their foreheads, great, soft jblack eye, enormously large, bony knock-kneed legs, and no tails at all! With the falling of the last musk-ox, my dogs made a rush for the little animals, which, though wide-eyed and trembling with fear, showed a bold front to the savage unknown creatures which surrounded them. Fortunately, I was too quick for the dogs, and rescued the little fellows. Then I hardly knew what to do. I had not the heart to kill them myself, nor to tell my Eskimos to. Finally, I thought I would try to get them to tlje ship, fifty miUs away, though I did not know how I was to do this over the miles of mountains and rough ice. After the dogs were fastened, the little fellows stood quietly by the bodies of their mothers till all the animals were skinned and cut up; but when we were ready to start for camp, and had put a line about their necks to lead them away, they struggled so violently at the touch of the rope thai, knowing they would soon strangle themselves i death, I had the ropes taken off. Then vc trk '. to drive them, but could not. Then I rcmcmberc my experiences years before at far-off Indcpcndenc--Bay, and told Ahngmaloktok to throw one of the musk-ox skins over his back and walk off. With a bim-a-a the little fellows were at his heels in an instant, and with noses buried in the long hair trailing behind him, followed contentedly, while the rest cf us kept off the dogs. In this way everything went nicely, and we scrambled along over the rocks, waded across two or three streams, and walked through an exquisitely soft, green little patch of meadow, cut by a gurgling crystal brook, until we reached the ice-boat, where the sledge had been kit. After a short rot at the ice-foot, Ahngmaloktok and I, with the calves, started to cross the ice of the bay to our camp on the opposite side, leaving the Eskimos to follow with the dogs, sledge and meat. Between the shore and the ice-sheet in the center of the bay was a broad canal of water with cakes of ice floating in it. This was a trying place for the little felows, but they were very plucky, and nothing could keep them from following that black-furred kin on the back of Ahngmaloktok, who led the way. When the distance from one cake to another was too great to jump, they plunged into the water without hesitation, though sometimes a reproachful baa-a-a was sent after the unfeeling '"mother" ahead. With a little help from me they finally climbed out upon the unbroken ice, and two drenched and forlorn little figures hurried patiently on after Ahngmaloktok. But their troubles were by no means ended. It was a long four miles across the bay; and there were numerous pools of water, which kept them constantly wet. Fortunately for them, the day was clear and sunny, with no wind, so they were not so cold as they might have been: but when camp wan reached they were verv, very tired. Ahngmaloktok threw the skin down close beside the tent and curling themselves up close against it they went at once to sleep, regardless of us and the dogs.

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After a good sleep, -Ahngmaloktok and Ahnpooploo and Ahsayoo went back across the bay to bring out the rest of the meat and skins, and remained in camp to rest my feet, raw and bruised from the sharp rocks during the hunt, and to look a'ter the calves. They showed no fear, hut came right into the, tent, where I fed them with biscuit soaked in water and a little milk, then curled up against me ami went to sleep while I wrote up my journal. They were still very tired. Later in the day, when 1 climbed the slopes back of my tent to see through my glasses what my men were doing in the distant valley, they followed me, and, coming upon a bit of willow, began eating it eagerly. 1 was delighted to find they were old enough to cat something besides milk, and I led them about from sprig to snrig of the stunted willow which grew here and there among the rocks, until they had had a good breakfa.-t. Then they followed me back to the tent for another nap. Later they came up to me again for their lunch, and before the day was over T had named them Yankee Doodle and MLs Columbia, because I first saw them on the Fourth of July. I was thinking, too, that if 1 could only get them to the ship and keep them till the ice would break up and let the ship sail home, what fine pets they would make for a little blue-eyed girl I knew at home, who had herself been born- in the Arctic region, hardly more than a hundred miles from where 1 found the musk-oxen. The Eskimos were gone a long time, and after the sun swung round into the north and hid behind, the mountains. I rolled mvself in blanket and went to tleep, leaving my little friends browsing contentedly in-; back of the tent. Some hours later my men returning woke me. and when T asked about the calves, said that thev were still back of the tout. So I turned over for another nap.

When I woke again, and alter listening for sour: time, heard nothing of the little fellows, 1 crawled 014 1 of the tent and climbed the slope, but could not see them anywhere. Then 1 woke sharp-eye 1 Ahsayoo and told him to trail them. A Per a long time he came back and told me he bad followed their tracks far up the valley, but had not seen them. They had evidently started off soon after the io; came back, and, having had a good rest and plenty to eat. had kept steadily on without stopping. At first I thought of sending all the Eskimos out with some provisions, with orders not to come back without the calves. Then I remembered how far it was to the ship and how rough the road, and how very barren the rocks were evervwherc about the ship, with no willow for the calves to eat. and I decided to let them go. I have often thought of them since, inarching off up the broad valley together, like Arctic babes in the wood, and have wondered what befell them or. their lonely journey whether they soon found a herd of musk-oxen to join, or whether, perhaps, for days and weeks they cropped the willows an I grass and slept in the shelter of some big rock before they found companions. If vou or I hoti'd go to that same valley now, we should not know them even if we saw them, for

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The great white elephant , left the show, lie said lie was too refined: The ways of a circus did tvt u'.t His most superior mind. "A creature as big and wbe as T Should le teaching school. said he; "And all the animal little folk My scholars they shall be." So into an empty school house near lie marshaled them all one day: LTwas in acation time, and -o The children were all away). The kittens and puppies, the pigs and geese, Were put to work with a will; Hut the s,uirrel and fox to the pl.aform went Ileeause they would not keep still.

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And then he began to teach his ehoot The atioiis thugs he knew; '"There's much not down m the book," said ht, ( " I hat 011 ought to know how to do." And first lie showed how to dap the ears, P.ut their ears were far too small; And then he showed how to wave the trunk, ' But they had no trunk at all. The only thing that he taught his school That the sikolars r.ccomplished well. Was when he called in the peanut-man. And taught them the nuts to shell. The elephant soon dismissed his school. And packed up his trunk Lo go; "For, after all. my talents," sa d he, " i e best displayed in a show.''

WHEN T CMY,

There are irilii i o; little boys and girls in the . .id who want io do just the right thing and the ery be-l thing. But they do not alwass know i.at .iust the right thing is, and sometimes they. ;.i::iot tell the very best thing from the very worst ""'ei' Now I have often thought that there arc little boys am! girls who cry, now and then, at the wrong time; and I have asked many of the older people, but none of them could tell mc the be-: t time to cry. But the other day I met a man older and wiser than any of the rest. lie was very oid and very wise, and he f'ld me: "It is bad luck to cry on Monday. "To cry 011 Tuesday makes red eyes. "Crying on Wednesday is bad for children's heads and for the heads of older people.

"It is said that if a child begins to ery on Thtirday he or she will find it bard to stop. ( "It is not best for children to cry on Friday. It makes them unhappy. "Nccr cry Saturday. It is too busy a day. "Tears shed on Sunday are salt and bitter. "Chi'dren should on no account cry at night. The nights are for sleep. "Thee may 1 ry whenever else they please, but rot at any of these times, unless it is for something very serious." I wrote down the rules just as the old man gave them to mc. Of course they will be of no use to the boys and girls who are past six, for those children do not cry. The wise old man meant them fo- the lit.'e ones the millions of little boys and girl, who wart to do just the right thing and the icrv best thing. Mary Elizabeth Stone.

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TIHIIE TO

MISS WIGGS OF THE BERRY PATCH

A BASHFUL BRIDESMAID

THE PRINCESS AND THE PAGE

A LITTLE HARLEQUIN

Thiiemon John and his filter Estelli, When wa!k rig out, carefully hars their umbrella; "And that both may be equally safa frm the weather, Each holds out a hand as thej "walJc cn together.

Lo ma sure, yoa see, that it really 13 blowing Or shining or raining or hailing or snowing; QYqt otherwise they would scarce need their umbrella, Philemon John and his sister Estella!