Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-03
THE NEW FIRST READER.
TIE WEATHER Lac.

THE WEATHER LIAR,
There are many kinds of the liar fam
lily. but the best known is the weather
liar The older he is the greater his
license to indulge in his familiar pas
time. Every day of the year furnishes
him with an excuse. and all he asks is
for somebody to talk to. The weather
liar remembers that the winter of 1879
was exactly like that of 149l; the spring
of 1882 puts aim in mind of the spring
OF 1924; the cold waves of the past Win
ter didn't begin with those of IVA. lie
can remember winters when not flake
of snow fell, and summers when there
was frost every other night for three
months He has seen the thermometer
drop to forty-Seven degrees below in
January, and climb TO $50 degrees in
August. He remembers one day when
cherries We're ripe in May, and another
when they could not be picked until
November. No matter what the wealth
er is, the weather liar has always seen
worse If it SHOWS for two DAYS, he has
seen it snow for four If ii rains for
week, he can remember when it poured
down without break for three. fyou
have seen it hot enough to fry eggs on
a stone sidewalk, he has seen an AK
melt on top OF lump Of ice.
THE FISH LIAR
Ranks second on the list. He goes fish
inc about once in five years and spends
the rest of the time in lying about what
occurred. He caught q bass weighing
fourteen pounds, but the hook broke
and let him escape. He had bite from
a pickerel four feet long, but stubbed
his foot and couldn't pull up at the
proper moment. He began fishing with
minnows for bait, but the fish bit so
greedily that he finally tied horn but
ton to the hook and pulled 'em out as
fast as his could drop the line. He
caught an even tubful, but while he was
eating luncheon the wharf gave way
and let tub and fish into the water.
The fish liar can be found sitting on the
counter at the grocery of an evening.
oil wound up and ready to begin bust
ness, and nothing lets the sunshine into
his life SO quick rs to get hold of some
one who will gasp out occasionally,
"Aly stars! but is that possible?"
THE HORSE LIAR
Stands third on the list. He is n man
who has had horse which could go in
2:20 He hasn't got him now, but that
doesn't make any difference. He has
driven that horse in a race with an eN-
press train and taken first money. And
he also had running horse which once
made dash of twenty-five miles on a
bet of $1,000. He hasn't the horse or
money at the present time but he can
give YOU the names of dozen leading
bank presidents and chief justices who
saw that dash.
The horse liar doesn't stop at lying
about his own horses, but he is ready TO
put in his best licks on animals he never
saw lie is in the confidence of the
owners of all the celebrated equincs. In
his opinion such track is short and
such track is long. He doesn't believe
Rarus was ever much of horse, and he
| feels that he could drive Goldsmith Maid
three seconds faster than she ever re-
corded. He is the identical man who
first saw speed in Flora Temple, and il
he had wanted to be mean about it, he
could have bought her for ten dollar,
and an old pillow, and made $50 ont
of the trade. He knows all about spav-
ms, ringbones, poll-eyil, pink-eye, and
CHAMBERS, and he has sure cure for
each one. His seat is on the head OF the
second cracker barrel from the stove
each evening through the winter, and
when he can come across some one who
has invested Sl5 and n cross-cut saw in
an old plug Of horse to use in a cider
mill, he is in his glory He knows all
about that horse; been an awful good
stopper; saw him run away once, and
killed two women; Rarey tried TO tame
him, but had to give it up; reckon h,
could go out now and give most of the
boys the dust; and SO on until the grocer
rubs his sleepy eyes, and regrefully
says:
Come you liars, it's time to lock NJ