An Ounce Of Prevention

bomeümes an ounce 01 prevenuon is tronie than a pound of disease. One lay last week the cbildreii carne fuanino; in, shrieking that a big hawk was jircling over the poultry yard. Old Farmer Thistlcpod, dropping liis paper, jaught his trusty gun froni the raek, nul charged for tlie poultry yard. He ran over a bee stand just the other side af the cypress bush, and was stung in fchirty places before he jurnped ovor the Eence into the poultry yard, alighting npon the old black hen that was brooding thirteen chicks, breaking her ncck and mashing üve helpless "weetles;" the gun canght in the fenco as he juuipsd, and went off, killing a young turkey and lilling the Durham heifer in the meadow nearly full of buckshot, whilo the hawk, alono calm and self-possessed, iu the midït of the tumult and confusión sailed gnxcefully avvay with the une spring chieken he had all along intended to levy on.