394                THE WISCONSIN FARMER.


  best of flower and fruit to others, instead of don't think be has been
to school much. He
  keeping it themselves, that I wish they were isn't large enough.   But
there is one lesson
  all like Willie.  I think, too, that I should be he has learned already-has
learned very
  just as glad to see this if the flowers and cur- well, and didn't forget
once while I was there.
  rants and gooseberries and apples didn't come It is this: " LITTLE
FOLK9 SHOULD BE BEEN AND
  to rue, hut were given with a happy face, to NOT HEARD.'
  some one else.  Still it is very pleasant to   The only thing I remember
to have heard
  have a nice little boy or girl, come in, every him say, except to answer
when he was spok-
  now and then, while you are talking with the en to, was, 4- Would*'t Mlrs.
Hoyt write him a
  grown folks, and, without making any noise story?"      Ile asked
this of his mother, who
  to disturb the conversation, drop these good said " Perhaps, if you
will be a good boy." I
  things into your lap.                        said " Willie is a good
boy, and I will write
  That afternoon I had so many that, besides him a story tome time."
    Se here it is, all
  eating all I wished, and givingeome all round, about himself.  But I don't
think it is much
  a whole row of red and yellow apples stood of a story, after all. Do you"
   How could it
  over the large glass in the parlor, very much  be'! he is such a little
fellow.
  like the "apples of gold in pictures of silver,"  Next month
will be November, that ugly
  that, the Bible says, are like to good words. time, when there is neither
green grass nor
  When we went to come away, just as the car- snow to frolic upon out doors,
but rail and
  riage was turning froii Willie's home to my shiver and stay in the house
     I am always
  home, I said, "Oh, I musn't forget my apples !" sorry for children
at such times, and will halve
  Willie heard this and ran back as fast as he a story ready for all the
little boys and girls
could and brought them. They filled my pock- in the State. I think you will
like it, and you
et quite full.  I carried them home and laid may each one call it MY SToRY.
them up, in the bright sun, in my window.
Every time I ate one, I gave one away, for I        NN E W  S   S U   M 
  AR Y.
remembered how Willie had given them to me.             INDSTIA        AFFA-B_
   But we had not gone yet.     We staid all
night. When Will was sent to bed in the eve- 'The State Fairs, so far as
heard from, have gone off
ning, lie looked as if lie would rather not go, pretty wetl. Next mouth we
shall give brief sketches of
but he didn t say a word, or pull back, or kick. sm 01 the most tnteresting.
Competent reporters will
                                              particularly furnish our readers
with accounts of the
He went, as a good soldier goes to battle, State Fairs of lows, Illinois.
Ohio and New York.
bravely.
  The next morning, when Willie's Ma told                  STATE AFFAIRS.
him that this was the lady who wrote "Little    Nothing of much Importance
has transpired in the in.
George and his Hatchet," "Little Big Man," dustrial world.
County Fairs generally successful. The
  "Bumble Bug," &c., I saw that he did not run  "Loyal
Democracy" of Wiscobsin met at Janesville,
                                              Sept. 17. adopted an "1Address
to the People," and a se-
out doors so much, but staid a good deal in the 'ies of  adopted   neith
  f which we have space in
house with us.  I expect lie thought that in this journal. It is sufficient
to Fay they were denuncia-
all that talking there would surely come a tory of the   BRyan Address Deniocracy."
and full of ex-
                                             pressions of devotion to the
country and of a determina,
story after a while.  Did   wve big folks stop tiontosustain theadmiunistrativeheadofthegorernment-
talking when he staid in the house?  No, in-
deed! Why should we?        Do you suppose              FOREIGN MATTERS.
Willie made so much noise that it disturbed
                                               lrumrors of iatcadedl intervention
and recognitionasre
us ?  Do you suppose he talked much himself, till afloat in Europe. France
seems more likely to make
saying "Ma! ma!" every few minutes, or us trouble than any other
power at this time; though it
pulling his father by the sleeve ? He did neth- in not our opinion thateven
sheill intervene right away.
                                               Maximilian, of Austria, to
whom Napoleon offered the
ing of the kind.  Willie is a small boy. I throne of Mexico, has not yet
eccepited.



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