Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-28
LARGE AND JUICY FOOL.


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Pixs Than He Did.
.Ihave Just come in from the country,
aid the young man with the ial sayie
derby. land succeeded in making large
and Juicy fool Of myself almost every gay
while was there ssaid with an unc1e
Of mine who has farm ID or !. miles rom
nowhere. and the Reubens got the laugh on
me % many times that can't remember
the number. L.,
.sFhs oueerest experience that l haa.
though. was at one Of their county fairs-
They held the fair early this year, for some
reason or other. and was On hand TO take
IL in | went out to the grounds WIKI
Marty Of Young women who were VISITING
in the nssghhorhood, and undisinasea oy
the failure OF my former efforts 70 ssrihs
tha rt,stics L started out to have fnn VITA
them as soon as we struck the GROUNDS
We walked around for a couple OF hours
and was poking all manner OF nun ~ tne
,es,nIe we met. Finally we came TO the
shei where the poultry WAS on eNhlhatioi'
and as we went along looking at the safi-
orsly bred chickens. got particularly fuii-
nv At the end of one of the rows OF coops
was A box with five or six guinea pigs IN II.
Their. were quite "a number Of countryneh
standing around hooking at the queer little
animals. ~.
I'VE walked over snd looked at the
nios Then | said loudly, DO you know
Hal If you nick up a guinea pig by the
rail its ewes will drop outF The country
men stared Fact, continued. 'Ilck
one of them up by the tail, and its eyes VII.
drop right out. Most oueerly constructor
ansronicglly Of any animal known to nat.
uraiists. If these pigs were mine. woaiu
soon show yoa.'
"A biz. strapping fellow who stood De-
side The hnx said, stranger. don't believe
you' 1 insisted that was right, but he
,uod and doggedly shook his head, and the
rest of the counIrymen sided with MN.
Now. Il guinea Zig has no tail, and there Is
where the Joke comes iii. / arSueu lot
some little time aud then made grand
bluff. pulled out little roll Of btlls anu
offered to bet the Reuben So that Just
that thing would happen. Imagine my
surprise when the Reuben hauled greasy
OLD pocketbook out of his jeans and Gov
cred the money | WAS sure / had him, Tor
the bet was ii catch one anyhow, and as the
Young women who were with me were egg
ing me on couldn't think Of ilunking.
u pderstaud' said, i claim that ii
YOU pick up that guinea pig by its tail It's
eyes will drop out
~ understand said the countryman, as
he opened Il little door in the side OF tue
box ard pulled out a guinea pig. Now
pick this ono up and lets STE its eyes drop
out
Then began to laugh. ia, my friends
said, i have played little trick on you;
that's all As guinea pig has no tail you
can't pick one up by it. # you could, dc
not doubt that its eyes would drop out
Il reached out for my half OF the bet,
when the big countryman said; 'hoi on
there. mister You jist look an see If this
here guinea pig haiu't got tall exam
ined it, and may ! be switched II it didn't
have a tail an inch long. The countryman
picked it up by the little caudal appendage,
and of course its eyes didn't drop ont.
Then he reached over, grabbed the wad OF
money aud put il in his pocket, rcmarking
the while, i didn't think when developed
that breed of guineas that they would ever
make that much for me.
an be blamed if he hadn't been work
ing for three years 10 produce guinea pigs
with tails, lie had succeeded, and | was
chump enough TO go up against the only
cage Of that kind of animals in the world
with my chestnut about their eyes dropping
out. buffalo Press.