The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1903-11-07

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Buster Browning was whistling joy
ously when he started down to the
corner grocery to get some nails with
which to build a dog-house Alasl
When he returned he was weeping
copiously. While gazing with open
mouthed wonder at the majestic lion
on the circus billboard, walking at
the same time, he had stubbed his
big. right toe. An ugly spike was the
offender and Busters MANNED pedal
extremity pleaded in mute eloquence
for mothers surgery.
And. to cap the chaotic climax. Bus
ter's father forbade him sleeping in
barn the night before the circus.
III won't never-get-up-in-tIme." he
blubbered, "and 'Il-miss-all-the-fun-
an boo-ho0-boo-hoo" and Buster
opened the floodgates OF grief and let
the deluge rolf
But Buster Browning was no quit
ter. Ee resolved to see that circus
come In II it was o'clock in the
morning. For the consumation Of his
resolve, he called on Jimmie Stone
that afternoon and Jimmie promised
The night before the great pageant
was to arrive, Buster retired early os-
ltensibly a resigned sacrifice to pattern
al pyres--only he wasn't
When Buster had undressed he went
cautiously to the window and pulled
something. That something was q
fish-line. When Buster tumbled into
bed there was attached to his big toe,
the sore one to make sure he would
feel the signal three hundred feet OF
fish line, the other end OF which was
across the alley in Hubbard's barn
where the boys we're arguing over
why is a kangaroo??"
When the first toot Of the oncoming
train reached their ears in the gray
mist Of dawn, Jimmie Stone was ts
pull the string and awaken Buster
But how could Hubbard's family COW
know anything about the best laid
schemes O. mice and mep?" Out
shopping in the midnight air she &C
cidentally ran against and became en-
tangled in Busters fisSllne tele-
graphic system.
This is why the entire neighbor-
hood was awakened In the still hour
Of night by a series Of sarieks that
made bowling Rome a mere phono.
graphic imitation.
When the hsh-line broke Busters
toe was not quite of, but he was
hopelessly snagged against the win
dow sill where he had landed at the
first frightened lunge OF the family
bovine.
P. S.-Busters father took him to
the circus after all 1T will help him
in his natural history class. said Mr..
Browning. "and, besides, he has GER
tainly and conclusively proven that he
is not able to care for himself with
this circus mania in the air"
bb
In Knights History Of England viii
be found a comment on the Rev. Alex
ander Keith. who married six thou
sand couples In year, often uniting
the two for a mere plttance His motto
was Happy is the wooing that is not
long a-doingl" What the girls Of to-
day need is another Rev Mr.. Keith.
Apropos Of this subject Of human In
terest. did you know that all OF our
most practiced marriage ceremonies
descend to us from the Romans? The
ring. the veil. the Wedding gifts. the
groomsman and bridesmaids, the bride
cake-an probably the first quarrel
that follows shortly after?
The season Is over for influencing
bullhead by causing an angleworm to
wriggle its tail Land suckers. how
ever. continue to find the hook as here
tofore-
A writer In a Detroit paper speaks
Of love as "a beautiful and wonderful
thing" what that writer needs is to
wake up.
A day without q laugh IN It ia one
lday lost