Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-26

At midnight, there assembled the Kitchen
Garden Folk.
Old Carrot climbed toad-stool tall and
thus to th-m he spoke;
MY friends, we're way behind the
thyme rue it day by day.
We never gi: Ball or Rout; Circus,
Show or Play.
The Insects had a Vaudeville. The whole
Work-Ba sket Tribe
Once gave q Circus, SO at US continually
they gsE".
The purpose - this meeting is to hit upon
a plan
To give an Extra bang-out Show that
sure will beat the band
Speak up. nay Hearties, don't be shy,
suggestions are in order"
And up they apoke-from Cabbage Head
down to Sir Green Tomato.
And when they gathered up the votes, the
up-shot seemed to oe
To give a CircTs-NaudeTille the follow
ing night at three.
Young Cucumber. the artist. drew the
posters for the Show.
And soon the Kitchen Garden was plac-
arded high and low.
The Insects came in coveys, the june
Bug and the Bee
The Fly, the Wasp the Spider. and the
small ambitious Flea.
And the who e w ork-Basket OutHt, ieu oS
Miss Scissors tall,
Right down TO Humpty-Dumpty, VINO
made traight for the Wall.
Old Cafsot, with his auburn hair. stepped
on the stare. Says he
''When all that huzZing has been stopped
Che looked bard at the Bee
Why Wen endeavor for to give a fust-
class Show t>-night."
Gle was a farmer, so you see his gram
mar wasn't right.
He gave d signal. Like fash the Gym
bal-ing Band 'srst forth
Into the livelicst Fornp1pe that e er was
hearA on Garth,
And clad in mystic, shnluerinS green, all
trimmed in gold and white
Miss Spinach wllirle upon the Stage-Ihe
Danseuse OF til night. -
Miss .5une-Bug and Miss Spool O. Thread
(the Irish Bale Crib
Looked thoroughly disguised at Miss
Spinach's toe-whirl
But all the rest applauded to the echo,
so that she
Responded in another dance with great
alacrity.
Two Peas puts on the boxlns-gloVes anu
fought for seven rounds.
Tn Sullivan and Corbett style-tfll one
cried Here he downs
And down the other Went when Okra
Referee called Time.
When with Black Eye he iuprose to
seek a cooler cline.
4 neutrality-suspicious. Cabbagea by
Did tricks so wonderful they'd put that
Hermann man to shame
He turned himself to Sauer-kraut. sWai-
lowed himself and then Z,
AS Leader OF dot Cherman Band spit
himself out again.
The Onion laughed until the tears rolled
down his cheeks In pique
The June-y-Bug said wit:leringly. you
seem to've sprung a Lee...
An Artichoke in uniform and helmet next
was seen.
"a Policeman, whispered SCISSORS
(which means he don't know Beans. .
At this, Stage Manager Carrot rose
straight up from his seat.
But alas. he found she spoke the truth
He was sleeping on his Beet.
A soggIe-eyed Potato danced an Irish
breakdown gay,
And when his Wife came on; How
sweet" the Bees were heard to say:
Young Corn, so tall and slender, with mis-
tasseled cap awry,
Went through a dangerous SWord-Dance.
and Miss Egg Plant gave cry
When the sword slipped from ms hand
and cut a great cash in his ear.
"Shc throws herself right at his head,
Wasp said. or SO hear.
Just what the Last and Greatest Act Of
All was to have been
Was never known. and certainly was
never, never seen.
For a Sun Eeam sliding down to Earth
with cruel magic power.
Turned them back TO Vegetables IN one
siXtieth of an hour.
CALLY RILAND.