The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-01
COMMUNICATION.
EDITOR SUS:

SpAiOk SEN'
Once upon IL time no matter where
or when, there WIS an uld granger
" no Thought he needed n crop cared,
bob ta,lrd, 6nl deg In his busiRess,
| and he reSembled other old grangers
in tins respect that when he once got
IN iGea il his head. which of course
being granger was seldom. he kept
grinding away upon 1t until he worked
II out in some way. Now this was
the way I've managed the bull deg
| problem. You must understand that
the prominent idea was the bull dog,
and where ever he went he kept his
eye peeled to discover " hal he w4ntt q.
II was long hunt, in fact he did not
find a crop cared bob tailed bull dog
ut all, But he found n fine specimen OF
! Il ball dog with Icing tail, aid long
earsHand he concluded he could evolve
W hat he wanted from this noble speci.
men. BE was Il Psychologist III way,
md he concluded he must approach
what he desired gradually, lest the
shock to the dogs system should prove
fatal, and leave him without any
thing to enyolve what lie want6dtrom.
Therefore he concluded to commence
10y shipping off small piece from
one ear, and then waiting until that
healed, and then doing the same with
the other, aid SO proceed until the
cans were the light length: and then
commence upon the caudle appendage
in the same way, until 1t Was redUct d
To the right length;4nd then he would
have the long coveted alticle, u crop
cared, bob tailed bull dog.
Now while WAS cogitating upon
county expenses to Il reasonable
| amount, and studying upon the way
| our county business is manipula, ed,
| and where the Vast amount OF money
goes to, for some reason beyond my
! Knowledge the bull dog story would
| keep recurring to me; and SO often us
l would put it aside and attempt to
grapple with some OF the items Of
expense, it would again rccur, and /
became 20 I!SgUsled ,hItI leaned back
10 my chair and slept: and while l
slept dreamed, (perhaps 1t was not
all "a dream,) / Dreamed That the bull
dog represented the very problem l
WAS graphing with. The tail repres-
ented Two hundred tons of coal sup
posed 10 he furnished tor the court
house land consumed in one year in u
Iurnlce that can not burn the half of
1t, The ears represent eighteen
hundred dollars over drawn in poor
fund. The head represented from
six to ten unnecessary meetings Ut
The county commissioners. The legs
repl eSented unusual and unnecessary
expenditure of road and bridge fund
aud unnecessary expense for printing
AID the uOble body Of the pup
represented the paperlng of the
court house, and the salaries of the
county officers. and their much needed
and perhaps much abused janItor:
and fancied heard this tax payer
and that one sly, that dogs tail ought
to be cut OFT and his ears cropped, but
says an other you m list do 1t Il little
ut ii time or the shock will be too
great TO the body polite. But saws
another my taxes are more than can
pay what, shall we do; OH says man
who pays no taxes,trim off All inch vi
his tail this year, and little off his
ears next, and in time you will have
u crop cared bob tailed bull dog
Then me thought. in my dream
waxed wrOth, i'll fact grew mad al
= through; until faneied l weighed ;
ton, then / seized the broad axe o
Justice in the right hand of reform
and with one tremendous blow
| severed his tail close behind his ears
{ and told theasseIn bled taxpaye.s tina
if he died of the amputation / woul,
thank Almighty Cod that l hA.
lived to write his epitaph.
But my unusual energy awakened
me, and behold the same many headed
wrongs Continue. Will some one lei
me where to find the remedy.
c. SAX.