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The Peaches

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
October
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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A countryman brought from the city five peaches, the fineet that ever were eeen. But his children saw this fruit, for the first rime. Thereíore, they wondered, auu icjoiced in the pretty peaches with their reddish cheeks and delicato down. The fat her tben divided them among his four boys, and gave oue to their mother. In the evening wlien the children went ato their sleeping chamber, their íather asked : " Well, and how did the pretty peaehes taste ?" "Finely. dear íather," said the oldest. " It is a beautiful fruit, so tartish, and so delicate in tasto.' I have carefully kept the stone, and will raise me a tree from it. "Bravo!" said tho father; " that is providing econumically for the future, as becouies a landsman." " I ate mine at once," the youngest cried, "and threw away the etone, and. mothor gave me half of her's. O, it tasted so sweet, and melted in rny mouth." " Well," said tho father, "you have not acted very wisely, but naturally, and in a child's raanner. 5u wisdom, thero is yet room in the counee oí your lite." Then the second son began: - "I hunted up the stone vvhich my little brother threw away, and cracked it. - There was a seed in it that tasted as a nut. But my peach I sold for enough, when I go to the city, that I can probably buy twelve." The" father shook bis head and said : "That ia wise enough, but childlike and natural it was not. Heaveu guard you, that you do not becoine a nierchant." " And you Edmund ?" asked the er. Self-possessed and frank, Edmund replied : " I oarried iny peach to our neighbor George, who is siok of a lever. He wonld not take it. Then I laid it upon bis bed and came away." " Well," said the father, " who has made tbe best use of his pench ?" All three exclaimed : - " Brother Edmund !" But Edmund was silent, mid his inother embraoed him with tears in ber eyes. _ ui ■ in - L3L, Madame Heiberg, a famoug actress of Copenhageu, was once eugaged to a man quito uuötted for her, who, umong his other gifts, possessed a ruro amouut of avarice. One day in early spring, tho lady and her UDgonerous swain woro driving, in a bired coach, aloug an avenue in tbe park, near Uopoubngen. The gentleman, in a fit of uuusual 11-humor, drove on and on without saying a word. The actress, out of patience, broke silenee at last. Opening both the doors of the coacb, " Monsieur," she said, " tbe best plan is to put an end to this. Do you get out at your door; I mean to get out al mine. Adieu forever ! " Upset at first by the sudden rupturc which he did not in the least expect, he reflected an instant, and then seemed to agree to the proposition. - "But which of ués," he asked, "is to pay the fare ? "

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Old News
Michigan Argus