Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-03-22

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'Then knelt until late in the evening,
And scarcely an inch had stirred,
When su denly tar in the distance
A sound as Of whistling heard.
started up dreadfully frigh ened
For fear twas an Indians call,
And then very soon remembered
The red man neer whistles at ALL.
It was a neighbor's boy coming to
protect her who had whistled to let her
know of his approach, and she concludes
by saying:
$50 now. my dear friend, do you wonder,
Since such COOL reason I've given,
Why say shan't care for the music
Unless there is whistling in Heaven?
Yes, often I've said SO in earnest,
And now what I've said repeat,
That unless the ~e's a boy there a-whistling
The music will not be complete"
Boys sent out after dark are said to
whistle to keep their courage up. They
also whistle as signal to other boys.
and now a popular genius has developed
the use of it as pro. ession.
''For heavens sake dry up that
whistling.' said the grocery man to
the bad boy. "There is no sense in such
whistling. What do you whistle for
anyway"
- am practicing my profession
said the bad boy. II have always been
a good whistler. and have decided TO
turn my talent to account. am going
to hire an Office and put out sign:
Boys Furnished to Whistle for Lost
Dogs You see there are dogs lost ev
cry day, and any man would give half
dollar to boy to find his dog. l can
hire out to whistle for dogs, and can go
around whistling and enjoying myself
and make money. Don you think it is
a good scheme?" asked the boy of the
groceryman.
A lady who suspected her servant of
drinking the cider when she sent him
into the cellar, commanded him to whis
tie all the time he was absent.
Sailors whistle for fair wind. The
sportsman whistles to his hounds.
He cast off his friends as huntsman his pack
For he knew when he pleased he could whistle
them back.
1t is not considered in good taste for
girls to whistle, and there are very few
who can do it even toerably well, per-
haps because they are under the spell
of that prediction in doggerel which
some secular st. Paul promulgated for
the sex:
Whistling girls and Growing hens
Always come to some bad end.
A girl is usually too volatile to
whistle; she Fuckers Ter rosy mouth,
shuts both eyes, screws up her face. and
just as she gets ready to whistle goes
off into a tit OF laughter, and spols it
all. But once in while some demure
little maiden will whistle. and it is posi-
lively much more frequent phenomena
in nature than a hen that crows.
= But. oh, the whistiing girl I've met,
AS blithe is she as any bird;
And from her lips morn, noon and eve,
The merriest OF lis are heard.
" From task to ask with lightsome step
She hasters. whstlng aS she gees:
And her deft hands charm what they touch
And order from diSOrd r grows.
There is something pathetic in a
whistled tune; the businessman sitting
up at night trying to make his ledgers
balance, hears some late pede strian. boy
or man, whistle the Last Rose of sum-
mer" or Bonnie noon,'' and straight
way the pen drops from his tired hand
and the bewilder:ng figures disappear.
and in their place he sees hcme and the
mother who lived there, and he catches
the song OF the robins in the old orchard
and the scent of the sweet briar that
grew bv the door.
away, away, tor'eenting cares,
OF earth and folly born"
He is at home again. and as the un.
known whistler passes on and the ten
der, wandering air dies away. the eyes
of the listener are dim with tears,
"And his hea is filled with longing pain
To be whistling boy again"
b Detroit Post and Tribune.
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