The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-14
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Wisdom Recoined In MaIne-The RECON-.
age as Presented In Holman F. Days
Kin o. ktaadn," Verse Stories Of Plain
Okla MeIodrama In NarratIve-The
Centenary Of George Sand.

1t is wonderful what an amount Of wis
dom comes out Of Maine It is the same
old wisdom that has been floating around
doing service in the world since man came
and the commodity became a necessity.
but every time chunk Of this necessity
comes thru Maine. it is given n new
stamp 1T is worked over into new mix
ture, fresh and sticky, and when it strikes
the mind again, some of it is sure to
SICK, like fragments of a boys missile
Of mud to g, barn door,
Some of the worlds supply of wisdom.
restamped with the Maine SEAL has been
gathered together in a book of sense
and nonsense-called Kin o. ktaadn
verse stories Of the plain folk who are
keeping bright the old home fires up in
Maine by Holman F. Day Under Mr.,
Days handling the material loses none CT
it's homely quaintness or picturesque
charm. On the contrary, he gives it a
form and force that helps make it stick
For example under the subdivision
'Waitin for the Mall" which he intro.
duces with,
Always a seat for another
Providin' we squeeze 'em tight;
Stampln In from the smother
For tbs snowin hard tonight.
Time for bit O. smokin'
Time for another tale,
Time for little JOHN,
Wa1t1n' for the mail.
ne falls to moraIizing on human wind
mills: He says when they git to siftin
ar thru their arms and clickin' away witt
thelr tongues, then's the time to look
sharp at the grist they're turnin' out
Like enough you'll find they're grindin
saWdust, after ALL He goes on:
Inc moral was p'inted pretty strong at that
railro TOWN meetin' we had Those lawyers
an rallro maggots or magnets or magnates-
suit yourseyes-talked an talked an talked
hos
WI our ears rung an we got dizzy an we wal
al ready TO vote to lend town credit.
But When we thought the railroad shower wa.
az over, up jumped old Square Brown, an b.
cllnched his big fist an stuck out his long fore
niger an waggled it, an says: "Townsmen
poaters but We k ssnt nn d boil pot
he said But the lightning struck
! The wisdom stuck
Ihls practice of puncturing ones Ear
| guments' with a few words of good com
mon sense is sometimes carried still far
| ther The tone with which some colloouia
slang phrase O, word is interjected viii
sometimes serve quite as we'll This /;
shown in "she Simply Said Cats Foot,
IN Which Cats Foot has much of tn
| meaning of the more common Gratis.
Here is Cats Foot" -,
l have heard rousing speaker bang anothe
| Give him fits and Hail Columby an hell fro h.
the yard; 49,.
But the chap that he was tacklin simply'd sc
| an grin an grin, :
For the raspin' he gittin' didn't seem t
| start the skin
I've heard a rosy schemer talk an tell about
| -.-# plan -
For dom this tryin' that to raise poor fellow
| man; -. -.
And the chap that riz to answer had hundre
| pounds O. steam b..
| With which to buck the center Of a fog-ban
| ill.,. kind O. scheme.
Why, twould take my old Aunt Betsy only jes
about jif '
To knock it galley endways-she would simpl
! give sniff
Cock her specs above her knittn', kind O. Sian
| her head around,
| Look him over grms bob-cat from his topkno
| IT, to the ground
Say couple words, sech like-and she'd sa
| EN- mighty strong
An she'd squizzle all to nubbns a speech a
| hour long. .....'
Talk of-hammerin' your rival! Why, be
! that she can put
More'n ton Of solid knockdown in her
| '.Phuh! Cats Foot!
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