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0 LITTLE BRITAIN fe, Maurice, Connor, of eld, t of Bi Kony i Me i, Wiekett and in Campbelliford a ast week visiting friends. "M = after I he past two, op three a a) vee ; Johnny| Mrs. Joseph: Yall, of Oakwood, 'Neil visited Ms. Samuel Hooper on Tues- day of last week. rasec| Mr. "John Cranley has returned aftér v Ar-| spending a few days at his home in Davidson, | Queensville. Phail-| Mrs, John Pinkam 1s on the sick list at present, and 4 speedy recovery is hoped for, Messrs Griggs and John Tay- lor ed ory for England where they will spend the winter. Miss Annie Burgis who has spent the pas 'months at the home of STOVIN; n passed off very quietly this year not: much dam- 'was in. Oakwosd, * Letters from a Self- Made Farmer to His Son Hamilton, Ontario, November 23, 1912 'To Mr. James Tompkins, Port Perry, Ontario. Did you find your gate on its hinges last Friday morning? Some folks wouldn't never put nothing away if it. wasn't for Hallowe'en. Like as not their tools and things 'ud lay round loose all winter, if ihey wast afraid that the Hallowe'en witches 'ud get 'em if they didn't watch out. -It. takes a. whole army. of spooks and goblins and such like to keep some folks in line. They has to be scared into doing this, that "and the other thingasir. Now the one thing that strikes. me most forcibly about this Hal. lowe'en business is this-- You hadn't better holler before you're hurt and more than that, you hadn't better holler real loud if you are hart! because most generally it's the holler the boys is after. They do the mischief to make folks mad and uncomfortable and hot w.der the collar. If nobody gets mad, or swears, or threatens the fellows with jail, then part of the sport has been lost. You can't get a youngster to blow a tin horn very long if it don't make a noise. It's just the same with teasing folks and playing tricks on them. If the folks don't take no notice ths game's got to quit, because there ain't no fun in it. It's a mighty good sign if we don't grow too old to see the funny side of things. Some folks is so dead serious that if they was to laugh they'd almost crack their faces. Poor folks! They is that mis'rable and lonesome like that they don't know what to do with theirselves. Folks like that mean well, there ain't no doubt about that. But the facts of life is against them. Now the old black mare don't put back her cars and start to bite and 'squeal every time her colt kicks up its heels and runs away. First thing 'you know like enough the old cntter is a running after the scamp herself, and there's more fun than you can shake a stick at. Of course I ain't in love with a rowdy no place you put him, bug I do like fun. A rowdy had aoght to get a licking every time he breaks out in his bad spot. Theré's fellows as don't seem to know 'the difference between being a bully and having a bit of fun. These fellows has to break something or 'carry their jokes too far, always being careful that Bullies go along that way. until somebody straightens them up: and puts their energies to some good use, or mayue they lands in the | jail. I¥'s a kind of toss-up run on the heads I win, tails you. lose method. Fun is 10 life hike oil to a machine. It keeps the wheels of life ' from creaking. 'When you éan't smile, you're sick, cither in body or : When you don't enjoy a joke, you're growing old. "When you! is shart and. your mad spells grow long, youd better see the or, or pick out a nice quiet spot in the graveyard. ¢ If's no use expecting it: we can't run everybody, and have every thing our own way. "Most of us has plenty to do minding our own A a "woo, wii shor spell sometimes to i