The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-19

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Without a-holdn to the sides
Ger maybe hoIdin' with one handy.
Tho teacher says it's not refined y
To go a-ketchin' on behind. y.
almost never walk to school,
So many wagons pass our place;
My fav'rite he makes a rule
OF always ieadin' a chase,
An then pertendfn' he's too blind Z
To see me +ketchin' on behind. :
I've found there's just two kinds of men
What drives tn wagons in our town,
Cause when I meet 'em an then,
There's some that grab their whips or frown,
But some they nod an never mind
When am ketchin' on behind.
guess when am rich an great,
An own truck and grocery cart,
I'll always drive em slow or wait
So little chaps can get start
An have 'em built so boys kin find
A place fer ketchin' behind
l'~~-Burges johnson in Harper's Magazine.
Plays by Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Thurs
ton.-Two women novelists now very
much in the public eye, Mrs. Humphry
Ward, whose Marriage Of William Ast1e
is appearing In Harper's Magazine, and
Mrs. Katherine Cecil Thurston, author OF
| The Masquerader, will have plays pro-
duced in London shortly. Mrs. Wards
| play, Agatha" which she wrote in col
liberation with Louis N. Parker, will be
| produced by BeerbohIn Tree, with Miss
Tree in, the title role. Mrs. Thurston's
play, an adaptation Of her own 1.-THE Mas
querader," has been, secured by George
Alexander, and will be staged at the St
James theater
Back to the Age of .Innocence.-Walte1
Russell in The. Age of Innocence, a de-
Eiightful book Of "reminiscences applicable
to the childhood of almost any reader
1nti rr17f f,11 -,
given us book to aid us to Give ou
childhood once again-visit the daisy fiele
Of those fair: days-play in the old barr
where we leaped from the lofty beams
fish along the brookside-play on the sane
beaches do whatever else we dit
when we were little boys and girls" Flo
/ example you are Elsie in the daisy ,fiel,
telling fortunes. YOU snap daisy an,
tell her fortune: Rich man, poor man
beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian
chief. Rich man, poor man-ah, ha
You're going to mary a poor man an
wash his dishes
. Il am not" she replies. II am goin
to: marry doctor and nurse his patients
| Ted got it that way six times this morn
ing; SO there, smarty.,,'
z Do you remember how you used to te
fortunes and hear Elsie talk that way
/ Well, you Will when You read Mr.. Russell
book, and look over its Illustrations, pic
lures OF boys and girls of types to max
your heart glad.
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. So net.
The Quest for easy street."-Th
quest for some place of ease and peace
VERY much the same for all persons an
under all conditions, in the one particr
lar, at least, that it IS hard to make it
4 success: John Urt Lloyd in scroggIr
shows what the quest meant to Rock
) mountain stagedriver who suddenly BIZ
! came a millionaire. Just being million
t hIre did not complete Scroggins quest, {
: he would have said it would. He goes
long Journey Searching for his 'eas
place and yet his JodfneYings had b,
served to illuminate more conspicuous
the fact that if we do not make for on
selves an easy place as we go none is
b be found lurking in infirmity's path at tt
journeys end. Scroggins story is a HI
morously pathetic one shat the reader &c
lows with. interest. But Mr.. Lloyd h
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