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A LEGITIMATE CONCLUSION.
Old Mr. Brown and his son George were engaged in
the haymow, when the conversation turned upon California,
and the young man expressed a strong desire to
go. The old man said he should n't go. They talked
about it, reasoned about it, grew mad about it, and the
end of it all was, that George shoved his venerable
progenitor down over the mow, through a hole in the
barn floor, into an apple binn, to the imminent risk of
the venerable gentleman's neck, and then ran away,
leaving his father in the binn among the apples. The
old man, some months afterwards, told the minister the
story, and the reverend very profoundly said that he
thought children who showed such disrespect to their
parents never came to a good end. “No, sir!” said old
Mr. Brown, firmly, striking his hoe with energy into the
turf, — “no, sir! depend upon it, that boys who throw
their fathers down into apple binns don't go to Heaven
by a great sight.”
An Epigram. — Upon the election of General Pierce
the usual changes were made in the various subordinate
offices, with the usual anxiety among the outs and ins,
expressed by the following: —
Said an office-hoper, with exultation;
“True,” said old Roger, “I never yet
Saw such a General Piercepiration.”
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