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VHEN PA TAKES CARE OF ME.
When Pa takes care of me.
He ays to Ma," By Jing!
It seems that everything
Comes on me wnen I've got the most to do,
But I suppose Fve got to get it through
With; so you needn't fuss one bit about
Him; I'll take chargei:of;him while you
are out.'' .,
But Ma makes him repeat all she has said
About what he's to do ; guess she s afraid
To let him try his way
Of watching me, the day
When Pa takes care of me.
When Pa takes care of me,
He puts me on a rug,
He gives me a kiss and hug,
Then brings in every pillow he can find,
And piles them up in front, at sides, behind
Me, "So that you can't hurt yourself,
he says, ,
And then he gets me picture books, and lays
Them down beside me, and my blocks
and toys,
And says: " Now go ahead and
make all the noise
You want to : I oon't care."
And I sit ther and stare,
When Pa takes care of me.
When Pa takes care of me,
No book or toy or game
Seems, somehow, just the same.
And by and by I'm through with every one,
And when I cry Pa says, "Have you begun
Already ? What's the matter, anyway ?
There's everything you own!
Why don't you play?
Stop crying nowl You won't?
Well, what is wrong 1
Come, now, I'll sing." And then he starts
some song
About "Bye Baby Bye I"
And I lie flat and cry,
When Pa takes care of me.
When Pa takes care of me,
He grabs me up at last,
And starts to walk, real fast,
And talks to me, and pats my
back,
and tries
To act as if he liked it; but he sighs,
And sighs, and keeps a-lookin' at the dock,
And out the window, up and down
the block,
For sight of Ma; and when she does
come in,
She grabs me quick, and says, " It is a sinl"
And Pa looks mad, and I
I'm glad the time's gone by
When Pa takes care of me.
Francis Churchill Williams,
in August " New Lippencott."
Instinct In a Bird.
A traveler relates thai while passing
through a small forest in Brazil he was
attracted by the rapidly-uttered cries
of alarm of a bird, and, wishing to
learn the cause, he made his way to
the tree whence he thought the sounds
proceeded, and, looking up, saw that a
serpent was slowiy winding Itself P
toward a nest of unfledged little ones.
While watching its movements the
male parent bird arrived, who, cir
cling twice or thrice over the top of
the tree, swiftly darted further away
into the forest, and In a few seconds
returned with a large leaf in its little
mouth, which it instantly placed over
the nest, and then flew up higher.
Meantime the serpent wound itself
slowly up the tree and reached the
nest, but, on putting its head over the
side, quickly started back, descended
the tree, and was lost in the under
wood. The traveler, being deeply in
terested in the singular incident, aft
erwards learned from some of the na
tives that the leaf of a certain tree if
a deadly poison to the serpent How
had the bird acquired a knowledge of
this? What mortal can say? What
philosopher can explain?
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THE hORRORSOFST. DOMINGO.
It Was Jmt u Iliindrsil Yrr Ago That
They Occurred.
An hundred years ajro tho island of
St Domingo wus tho fairest and rich
est in tho western hemisphere, says
the Hartford Cuurant. For fifty years
it had been growing in production and
wealth more rapidly than any other
European colony in America. It was
the emporium of tho western world
It filled the coffers ol Europe from the
exuborant fertility of its soil and well
Barned its title of "La Heine des An
tilles." Tho French portion ono third only
was tho most productive, and tho
valu6 of its proaucts was estimated at
175,000,000 francs an increase of
100,000,000 francs in a quarter of a
;entury a sum which represented tho
Heasuro of toil exacted b human
jlavery. Tho population of tho colo
ny was 570,000. Of this number 40,
D00 were whites of all classes, 30.000
rt'ero mulattoes or free people of col
ors, 500,000 wero negro slave. Among
iho white was a class of vagabonds
jcatterd throughout tho colony, a
worthless set on which tho mulattoes
Bestowed tho epithet of "les petits
blancs." The African slave trade was
it its height at this period. More
jhan 300 vessels left tho coast of Africa
laden with their human freight in
;hains; 15,000 annually perished on
'.he passage; 20,000 yearly found their
tray into the slave marts of Saint Do
iringo. Tho revolution in France created
political disturbancej and differences
imong tho whites" in the colony. Tho
people of color claimed equal rights
with the whites; their claims were re
acted, thoir leaders were arrested,
iried, .nd put to death. They turned
a the negroes for aid. These had been
juiet witnesses of this war of caste.
They w ero now wakened by a senso of
iheir own condition. They joined with
iho people of color, and insurrection
Degan on the night of Aug. 21, 1791.
Incendiary fires broke out in several
plantations in the plains of the north.
The negroes, under the lead of one of
;heir number, a fearless giant named
Boukman, now commenced to plunder
;nd buru indiscriminately. By tho
J6th one-third of the plantations in
.he great plain weie in ashes. In a
week the wholo plain was swept by
ire. The desolation and ruin was
ilmost complete from the sea to the
mountains. The ecil ran with the
jlood of the unhappy planters and
iheir families. Thus began that series
f events and disasters known in his
tory as the "Horrors of Saint Domia
fo," events and disasters which re
tulted in the loss to France of heir
Richest colony and tho establishment
b 1804 of tho free black yovernmout
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