WINTER RANCH LIFE.

Mr. Charles is more industrious than Mr. Frederick. He stays out of doors
to make himself useful. Mr. Frederick and Mr. Charles have to be amused.
When mamma sits down to write, they come out to talk. They say: “Put up
that beastly pen, and talk to me!” and “O, but, I’'d like to whack the cad who
stuffed my dad that it wouldn’t be bad to have a thousand cattle on some hills!”
and “Tl be blowed for a duffer, if things are not going to smash like three |
clock !”

Such talk is not nice in a young youth. I’m glad we do not speak the Eng-
lish language! “Mos’tronary”’ is not right speaking, and oatmeal and molasses
is not good eating, even if they call it “ pawidge and trickle.” Mamma cooked
a rabbit for them, and they called it “jugged hare!” And when mamma made
a jelly-cake they said, “ Give us some more of that jam sandwich!”

English gentlemen seem to be queer! They are not like American people.

RAE.

 

 

A DEPUTATION OF BEGGARS.