Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-10-11

pair of spectacles. and turning to her COM
s panion. said: ''Tonl. just look at this enor-
NOUS radish! Did you ever see such a
big one before?"
|. Tom did not seem to- pay much attention
to what she said. but she heard a woman
behind her laugh and say: ''Why. that
:, woman actually fakes that rutabaga for a
+ radish.'
TO use her own language-"I disgracell
myself and made reputation, and after
:, that didn't say anything about the big
" vegetables saw
A FAT BUFFALO.
r Hanging up in the south end of Floral
;. Hall was magnificent pair Of blankets.
made in California from Montana wool,
for GREENWOOD, BOhm & Co., the enterpris-
), ing wholesale and retail clothing merchants
" of Helena and Virginia cities. The blan-
: kets cannot be excelled in quality in any
country. In the centre of one is woven in
: The seal is faulty in one particular-name-
ly, the buffalo in the background is poorly
executed. Many were the humorous criti-
cisms we heard on it. but the most of them
: have slipped our memory.
! whats that wolf got his back up
about!'
''From the way he humps himself up in
the centre, lie must have been eating sour
grapes
'.What a nice bushy tail he drags behind
him. and, what a beautiful kink he has
! in it,
''WhO ever saw wolf with horns on?
Gentlemen, that's buffalo-not a wolf"
Beg your partlon.-IIe must have been
living on bunch grass
''IIe looks rs though he'd had only one
bunch of grass. and for several months had
been living on the memory of how that
one bunch tasted.''
A man who evidently reads the papers
stepped up and said: II know how he
comes to look so lank. He was taken to
California for the artist to work by. and as
there was no grass there this year. lie got
his back up about it, and hasn't got it |
down yet"
! ''DUCKs' AND .'sTUFFED CAT.'
Five little girls We're taking in the sights
at the fair. Stopping in front of coop,
Susie exclaimed:
'.Oh. look at these pretty big ducks"
R.-"Why, those are not ducks-they're
geese.
why. they are ducks, too
R.-''Ill show you some ducks, SUSIE
and suting the action to her words, she
took her down the hall to another coop,
and explained to her the difference between
a goose and duck.
They went up stairs, and Susie ran
ahead to the corner Of the room. Here
she saw something pretty, and calling the
other girls, exclaimed:
"What on earth did they bring this
stuffed cat here for?''
All the girls exclaimed in chorus:
why. Susie, that amt stuffed cat
it's skunk
THE BABY SHOW.
The secretary called the mothers, they
answered to the call and the babies We're
set on one Of the tables in Floral Hall
everyone rushed to see them. and for an
hour there was Il continual jam in the north
end of the hall. Not one person could
move out. and many woman exclaimed:
'sOh. I'm going to faint. Oh. do let me
out"
There not being room for the judges to
get at the babies to inspect them. and the
mothers and children suffering from inn
pure air. the directors had the east room of
Floral Hall vacated, and admitted only the
judges. The mothers, and the babies COM
peting for premiums. The judges decided
in a few minutes who was first and second
best. and the proud mothers exhibited s
their children to their friends.
The judges wandered around in among
the large crowd Of people present to keep ;
out Of the way OF the excited mothers
whose children had not receiveda premium.
The following are a few of the many eX- !
p:essions that greeted their ears:
''Such judges. They don't know good
looking baby when they see it,
''Oh! Isn't that baby pretty. Didn't the
Judges make wise decision.'' ,
.'If didn't know any more about babies
than that, l wouldn't set myself up to be a ,
judge.''
81 think they did just right. I'm awful
glad they awarded the premium to the one
they did - l
1.-The judges were prejudiced and award
ed that baby the first premium just because
its mother is The wife of Il farmer"
Pointing her finger at one of the unfor-
tunate babies. woman exclaimed:
..That's the baby that ought to have re-
ceived the first premium; it's the prettiest
baby in the whole let, and it didn't even
get tie second premium. Such judgesv'
Il just believe that was a put up job; the
mother of that baby, is a Methodist"
'.What docs she know about babies, she
never had any Of her own"
..Why. the baby that got the first pre-
MUM is the ugliest baby ever saw
Say, NJ, did you see s.. He is
around looking for you with double bar
relied shot gun, he says he'll show you that
his baby is just as pretty as aaybody's, and
far prettier than any that took a premi-
um.''
II don't care, didn't expect my baby :
would get the premium anyway, but who
would have thought that they would have
given it to such a hon1eIy one as that is" ]
pointing her finger at the one that had re-
ceived the first premium. Then turning
up her nose she said with emphasis, ''Such
Judges
eff I'd had my baby there and the judges
had decided against it, Ed have scratched
their eyes out. I've half notion to dc it
anyhow. Such Judges
THE ACCIDENTS.
As beretofare puhlished We had q nun