St. Landry democrat., 1882-07-29
WHAT TELEGRAPH POLES ARE
MEANT For.


MEANT FOR.
In the island of sumatra, at the bottom of tn,
map,
Where Asia holds such giant lands in her ca
The elephants rise tiercely, in the maddes
kind of mob, =...
When the telegraph employees have finished
upa job.
And joined by wires electric places very fa
away.
Fort the purpose of conversng-if they've any
thing to say;
These animals uproarious will throw upon the
ground
The tcleeraphlc poles and wires whereye,
they found.
While w,res and insulators are carried off to
hide
In the deep. gloomy jungles where the angry
All the labor goes for nothing when the poles
are set again,
For the elephants are watching these nerse
verng men.
Who stick poles where they don't want them
across their right of way
AND they tear down in the nighttime what
the men have done by day.
With the monkeys and balloons it is quite
r. another thing,
kind Of swing;
And just the firmest tight rope for any sort of
While rambling on from s.po1e to pole "
sounds really quite romantic
Its very cute arrangement, far better than
the trees,
=, Which do for common purposes, but not for
such as these.
"And those lovely colored glasses!' says de-
lighted Mrs. Ape.
This really looks like living in some decent
sort of shape;
The cocoa-nut shells hold water, which is all
that one can say,
But these glasses for the future shall cover
my buffet"
So the monkeys haste to gather all the prizes
they can reach, -... rs
And twist off every inSulatOr with a trium-
plant Screech'
While they chatter and they gibber, and they
dance and they play
On the Geographic wires all the night and all
the day.
We read in Mother Goose" of quiet little
Miss Muffet
Who was eating curds and whey and sitting
on q tutfet,
When, in the midst of happiness, there came
along spider,
And with waiting to be asked. sat down
Now the spiders in Japan treat the telegraphic
wires
Not daunted in the least by their being such
AS this spider did Miss Muffet, and coolly take
seat
On the pole, perhaps, beside the wires so high
above the street;
For they bring their spinning with them, so
dainty and so fine,
And they drop, to begin WITH an experimental
line.
With such handy framework as these tele.
graphic wires
Mrs. Spider soon can weave web that meets
With draperies for the parlor that's to catch
the silly fly, a-,
And it is the prettiest parlor that ever you
did spy.
On the bare Western plains there's a dreadful |
lack of trees,
And nothing for the buffaloes to scratch them
selves at ease:
SO Geographic pole proves blessing in dis
guiSe,
That brings the tears of gratitude to many
though first with some suspicion: "What
4 ever Is this thingY'
Exclalms, in great perplexity, the dauntless
Then makes a sudden onslaught, as is his
mighty way,
To find pole for scratching, and not foe at
$ How jolly!" says King Buffalo" how very
kind of man
10 getup this convenience on such an easy
plan!
One grand good scratch, and then I'm off,
but so the pole is, too, .@
OF from its equilibrium-a sorry sight to
That sudden rush of matter lays it fiat upon
the plain,
Until the Geographic men have set it up
again;
And when they seek with toughest nails to
bristle it all DER,
The buffalo pronounces them even kinder
than before;
For what are nails for but to scratch? and as
scratching is his plan,
dc feels under obligations to the thoughtful
ness of man. sg- 81
30 he scratches all the poles down, rejoicing
on his way,
While the men who set them up again have
something else to say;
That something is not fattering to friend buff
falo at all. 4~49aF# ~ |
But he is off beyond the sound of voice or
musk et-ball. zzlt.
Ella Rodman Church, in Hdrper's Young Peo-
pile. s5 ~ fffsa =