Judge — June 23, 1883 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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INTERCEPTED LETTERS. | Lovina PROM MK JOH RECENT TOU MOTHER, | New York, JUxe, 1883 My peak Mawaa—fam thankful to be able to write you that [have arrive Smith's in safety. Thad several di experiences after leaving the tr nbrance of which ne re home n Pwent on the boat whic 1 the Erie depot to Chambers » E found the cabin crowded, the seats | ug tilled mostly by ladies, On the way aver, at baby held by a lusty Trish girl, whom (believe me. my dear mamma), [ had ver seen before, held its arms to me | ! and yelled)“ Papa! pea The ladie: smiled, and some very rude young man made such disgusting and really imme rks, nd Laughed ly, that TP owas glad to ape from the cabin fast as my trem- bling ns would carry me. | Thad met, on the train, a lively and well- who told me he hohe didn’t have informed young gentleman, sdrummer,” tho was it . Fi hisdram with himat the time, {le kindly save me a lot of valuable * points” (he call- 1 them me that the mg other things he informed »mnibuses were mainta ] the city, and were run for the benefit of the ; vublic without charge to the | st Lso understood him. [ snecec wetting into one of these ve Lin some dang limbin myself com- fortably. After blocks a gong and presently it ran ‘Then the driver, who sitsabove, put his | close to a hole in the roof, and loudly, **f want one more fare body looked at me in a manner t nervous, particular! hewed tobaceo, and who had rang loudly, ain. who hims since Lhad got in. A iminute stopped, and the driver called ingly rough voice, * This stag furder “til T git that fare!” chewing man said, in | manly way, * Pass up ye Do you want to keep us he plied, very mildly, that [had b | very nice young man that the st come off, Cully,” sa ly, “the dude was a-stuffin’ yer. didn’t understand any more of this than th Thad to pay and so handed the gar man fifty cents. He put something ina box, I don’t know how much; at all events, handed me back no ec! and the went on. IT was fearfal more 80 as everyone . langhed in m nd they looked at me very often, ». after we had gone a little distance I could stand it no longer, [ got out, and walked the rest of the way. | think me very. wie must con would lik this after [had got out, tho | stage was street that vou had | cousin, dear mani vul- | | cons | manent m THE JUDGE. I Tear you will | So to work they went. ‘Twigs 5 were phaited, sand was worked into mortar; for a whole lifetime (as | ants compute the span of existence), the work 1s vigorously prosecuted, and it Was crown- with suce The bridge was built, and a permanent way of communication” was ned between the two colonic Such a day as the day the bridge was open- wned on antdom. Every in- collectively; igh above their " on the new bridge; braced each other, and all went asa marriage bell. But a day or two ispicions opening, a s Too many ants had aceu- mulat n the bridge at one time, and the iit was that in the erush and confusion veral were pushed off into the rivulet and y by the current This created a panic it had never o« how e: The bri ject of such cong strangers ¢ merry cident ocet Ked, dear mamma, but I <s'that 1 told the vulgar man I tostrike him real hard. [said he and as the y ant wonder- to any of them accident_m ud bi ulation and ling away. tly to the number in We iven me, and told th 1 the bell that [ want- 1 I went dire ub- th adulation, hired girl who answe ed tosee Mrs, Smith, She said Mrs, Smith | 3¢ ‘ was out, but that she would call Miss Smith, | fell into disrepute. It was too narrows exi- tently a beautiful voung lady. in a ailk | dently so, or such a disaster would have been sen, came intothe parlorand Lstepped up | Mpossible. Both colonies wondered why ne ee kieed I ei Stith ia cage owe, | one had noticed earlier that it was too narrow, bly but now that it had been brought so fore before them, every ant saw it. umber! hemes for remedying the evil were suggest- d, but they were all impracticable, and for very obvious r the foundation of the | bridge (the func tal portion on which all the rest depended) had been ingeniously constructed out of the branch of a tre now it w Hthat this branch pw to afford a foothold for the numbers red to avail themselves of the new It was too late for regrets; the fault was one that could not be remed and the nd E thought he was terribly ght ung’ Will you believe it? ants were obliged to lay plans for a new bridge, which might or might not takea life- She slapped my face and pulled my hair, ¢2 time in construction, with the firm resol ine mevall manner of names, so that Twas | t build more wisely in the future, One thal to escape. with my life, 1 afterwards | Wise old ant characterized all the sug found that Aunt Mary and the real cousin e (after the accident) for increasing the afety of the bridge. tersely thus: Locking has been sto- rah Smith live at the same number in East street. There are several families of the ame of Smith in New York. I will write y ininada Your loving the stable door after the hors len mt or 50, abad moral for an ant to sug: ainnot improve upon it, and for F to this appeal tot ted wisdom of the people of New Y | Brooklyn, and to the ne RECENT. SUNDAY-SCHOOL STORIES. WITH PATENT SELPAUGOESTING MORALS ny capital advisers | who, th he public press, have been en- NOLIX gaged in shutting the stable door after the ONCE uy tim steed has departed, ever s th nt I hefore either New York or Bri mentable catastrophe on the t-River built or dreamed of, two colonies of ants lived | Bri not very far from one another. ‘There was, in fact, nothing to separate the two colonies except a tiny little rivulet whieh fl tween then it would bh atiny litth A SILHOUETTE. of June nt me uth will soon Maiden spoon | She'll impugn Mipni Words so sweet nd no | for small inconvenience did it the two colonies had very clo tions with each other, and were in constant com- munication; or, rather, they would have been ad it not been for this vexatious rivulet. », after enduring for many years the pangs separation, and communicating best uld through the medium of floating | es, twigs, etc., the ants determined to | ruct a bridge, which would afford per- ans of communication between the two banks. The idea was first hit upon PRESIDENT ARTHUR is not a Quaker, by an enterprising ant of an engineering turn | yet he keeps Hatton in the Post-Ott of mind, and was received with acclaim by | partment. His pecun lary tune He wilt cream sweets She will cat, Forget heat, her stern Next day knows What he doth earn. Nary use Indisereet and De- comicbooks.com