MIRACLES.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 29, 22 December 1883, Page 7

MIRACLES.

" An egg n chick on ! don't tell hip, for didn't I bionk an v&g to see ? There was nothing i abide but a yellow j ball, ! With a bit of mntilissro round it ;tJJ — , NeitUor beak nor bill, Nor 100 nor »piUl, Nor won a feather To hold it together ; Not ft sii^n i)i hie could any one see, An egg a chicken ? You can't fool me. " An egg a chicken ! Didn't I pick Up the very .shell that had held the chick, So they said, and didn't. I work halt a day To puck him in where lie eouidn't stay ? Let me try sw, I ple.ise With squeeze upon squeeze, Theie is m-mico space to meet His he.id und bis IWt. No room for an) the jest of him — co / That e>jg never held that chicken. I know." Mamma hand the logic of licr JittJe man Felt his trouble, and helped him, as raotlicJh can ; Took an egg iunn the nes(. — it was smooth and »onnil ; " Now, my boy^, t,\n yon (ell me what niako tins sound ;" Faint and low, lap, tap ; Soit dud io>v. Jap, rap ; Sharp and quick, Like a pnsonei's, pick. " Hear it peep, inside there !" cried Tom, with a bhout ; " How did it get in, and how can it get out ?" Tom was eager to Kelp — he could break the shell. Mamma smiled as bhc said, " All's well th.it endh well. Be patient awhile yet, my bo}'. 11 Click, click, And oui popped the bill \>f n hU5u chick. Nil loom I'JtU it la- kod, I'ion^h it na^ p. ckjd, Tai ie it w.i!-, ai{ muij>li>tu Fiom it hcnl u> U-. iti-t.i ti-t. The softe . of do.vu .md llr* hnyi.i'j^t of ()if. Ami bo in ;; — v> by, Uic shell wasn't ball Ho ■ v/,a. Tom gri\ " ,i long whi -lie. " M«imm.t, now 1 s-" n That an i ,i^ i<- a etiickeu — though the Ik>u tietit^ me. | '«n eg^ isn't a uiucl^.n, but 1 know and ileciai';, Yet an L-^iT i^ a chicken — see the pioof of it theie. Isi> body can tell Bow it came- in that shell ; Once out, ail in vmiu \\ ould i jiack it again. I think 'tis a miracle, mamma mine, As such a<? that of the water ana wive." Mamma kissed her boy ; " It may be that we try Too much reasoning about things, f>otnetinicb, joii and I. There aio miitveles wi ought, every d.iy, i'or our ( \ us, That we see without seeing, or feeling surprise ; An<\ often we must Even take on tvust "What we cannot explain Vuy null iignin. But from the Mower to the seed, from the seed to flower, Tis a world of mil ados avery hour." — M. If. in Youth's Companion..