Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-07
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suotsd mail BE va the honselisst
man ever born Ia captivity
We sls0 saw IA the lists far SIR
Knight with TN trousers and . white
yachting cap. Yea could wear almost
anything, - say.
The j0ast consisted ii filing up the
peasaEtry with lenonsds and WARM
watermelon al 80 much apiece and then
giving them what = called the grand
laugh
Two thousand q our yeosnanry from
Sandy MuHh bought seats In the grand
stand, and when they had seated them
selves, surrounded by sour watermelon
and ali that goes u make life enjoyable,
the directors moved the show 20 another
place over toward Blltmore. thus leay-
ing the grand stand 10 smuse itself by
playing be2nbas 70 the music Of the
skyland Silver Cornaeopia band.
The field marshals were pretty plenty
and looked well On their nice amsling
steeiS. The Sir Knights also looked
ferociens, especially one OF them called
Little Lord Fannfleroy. who wore a vel
ysteen waist and knee panties and rode
livery horse costing three dollars per
day.
The officers of the day were so thick
that while they were trying 10 keep the
peasantry back several OF them got run
into and severely injured. One Sir
Knight fell from his horse, and the
brute, il is said, stepped On his pancply.
did not hear how the tournament
came out. for it got SO late that had 20
20 home and do the chores right after
the trial heat and just As the show was
being moved again toward Busbee.
do not care To be Sir Knight l
would rather sit in a hammock and keep
the flies OF the Queen Of Love and
Beauty. lean ride a hammock longer
and with more grace than can a tall
horse with his tongue out and froth onto
him.
Once l had fierce horse with fash
ing eye and bright red gooms. but he
tried 10 90 through barbed wire fence
with me, and when he got through he
was short several vital organs
passed over the fence describing an
arc. described il at the hospital after
/ regained my senses, such as they were.
North Carolina has a beggar lady who
Is known as the Flower Girl If the Land
Of the Sky In the springtime she sells
trailing arb1tus that has been a good
while on the trail. Later on she sells
laurel and goldenrod 10 people who are
new here and want To do good or elevate
the lower classes.
Early in the spring the Flower Girl
of the Land of the Sky ran out of worm
less apples with which she had been
supplying the trade in winter and went
ON the road for the purpose of begging,
as she found times dull at her home in
Asheville owing to temporary sag In
real estate. So she took TO the Hender-
sonville road, sleeping at evening wher-
ever night overlook her.
Returning from California three years
ago. bought at Spokane Fails pair of
tan colored shoes made of undressed elk
skin. They were very comfortable,
though perhaps little too pronounced.
l wore them here last year during the
tennis season, SO that they were well
known west Of Salisbury and along the
Richmond and Danville road.
This summer the Flower Girl Of the
Land Of the Sky (who is no longer
young. she and the war of 1912 having
been brought on together), in her tour Of
Buncombe county and the French
Brood, paused at our house and, appeal
ing to Us for aid, showed that her feet
were almost out and also that her limbs
were barely healed up after being ap-
parently very much injured. so that
when l saw them / turned away and
buried my face in my hands.
Now. thought /, is fine opportunity
to do good. So gave her my tan shoes
and pair of long bicycle hose, and then
read book while she put theu on.