The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-29

to what you have said. We are talk
ing about the common beetle as we find
him around us. You still insist that he
doesn't jump, do you?
II never saw him jump.
while you have seen the grasshop-
per leap over treetops and across
yawning chasms, 1 suppose?"
Il have seen him jump four or five
they call him so2"
IF that miserable old yaller-eyed
cat sitting there is not canine why
do they call her so ?''
Feline, you mean.
Mr.. Bowser meant feline, of course,
but misspoke himself in his excitement,
and the mistake added to his injured
feelings. He say no way to crawl Out
of it gracefully, however, and so he
instantly determined to ignore the
matter. When he could get his breath
again he said:
There is a question to be settled
this night before we go to sleep IL
have finally turned into an old jack
ass 1 want to know it right away, SO
as to get a halter on and be led on TO
stable. You butted in and said that
a beetle didn't jump
81 say that 1 never saw one jump.
Don't wiggIe around the question.
You say grasShopper and say oeetle.
1 will settle the question within half
an hour. and 1 shall also demand the
fullest apology.
queried.
himself up and swelled out his chest,
81 am never wrong L make II my
business to be right
She and the cat looked after him as
he stalked down the hall and put on
his hat and went out to investigate.
He knew that his family butcher was
an eX-farmer, and he sauntereo along
to the shop and queried;
SAY Jones, you know all ABOUT
grasshoppers and beetles, don't you? ?"
i've seen a few in my time" was
the reply. ho++,a
Jump than a grasshopper?"
''How much further can you fly than
an old gander? In other words, the
beetle don't jump at all. He amt
you must have got things mixed.
1 contend that it is the beetle that
'.Then you lose your money. He
can't jump any more than a crowbar.
If you've got into another dispute with
your wife she's got the best OF you
Mr.. Bowser turned red and white,
and walked out and over to the drug
store. After carelessly asking for 2
cents worth of slippery elm he OBJ
served:
DOC. you've lived in the country.
haven't your
VI course
And seen no end of beetles and
grasshoppers
ACRES of en-
We'll. I'd like to have you tel me
which jumps the furthest?
That's an easy one, for the peetle does
not lump at all You can eaten one III
your back yard any day and experiment
for yourself. It's the hopper VINO mas the
'U ny IT thunder unia but believe you're
Then pass on to the next. When you
find a jumping beetle you'd better nave
your head examined -
the alley he a light in front OF a oarn
and walked down to find teamster I'M
hitching his team
DO You have beetles and grasshoppers
around the barn?" was asked
Hundreds of en-
Then, perhaps, you know winch Jumps
the furthestl'
But asked you a civil question. Which
can jump the furthest?"
Say, now, old dozer," replied the man.
eff you are drunk it's all right, but II
you have come here to guy me you had
better look out. l may be a teamster,
but I'm not a fool
I asked you.
Il know you did and if you ask again
there'H be a row here. If you haven't got
brains enough to know that a graSShop-
per can jump 40 times as far as a beetle
then you'd better buy a few second hand
ones Your name is TowSer. ain t it,?
and
i've read of YOU and you go on That
wife of yours knows more in a minute
than you de in all day.
Mr.. Bowser was leaving the alley to
make back home when he met a police.