The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-26
With the Long BoD
Eye natures walks, sh00t folly as 1t flies

Wltn the Long BOW
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VACATION is not entirely wasted when you can hear
n woman give an order for !fracassed chicken It
looked tho the chicken when it had been in
something Of that kind.
The winds mournful threnody played thru the bare
ruined chors Of the trees few withered leaves de-
tached from their summers resting place. futtered to the
gray carpeed earth The last sandpper whsted in the
gloom dusk the murk night shut in There gray
stiffness in the sky that hardly affected by the chill
atmospheric disturbance among the black branches sill
houetted against the sky Perhaps you think this
pherc disturbance and sadness indicated the approach
of autumn. There you mistaken. H. Hudson had de-
whiskered and the breeze was lonesome
All of us sporty dressers were profoundly impressed by
the cable dispatch from Marenbad regarding the
kings pants Albert Edward appeared the promenade
last week clad in glad garments that have agitated the
cables of the world like magnetic disturbance few mil
lion of miles away in the SUMS philosophers The First
Diplomat Of Europe dark blue short coat, white
trousers gray top hat brown shoes and coored shirt with
double collar Before the day out there rush to
the telegraph office and orders wired to the Austrian
capital for exact copies One firm received seventeen and
another Of these ORDERS with frantic instructions
rush them off to Marienbad they were COM
pleted Other orders went to Paris in equally hot haste
The reached Minneapolis at 615 the morning.
and rush was made to get the of Sir Arthur H.
FORE At that time the Royal Model, stated Sir A. WV
had orders for white trousers gray topper and
shoes, but Mr.. WV. had heard nothing Of the coored
shirt and doubted. Hurried cables dispatched.
Meantime wearing last springs simple garb with
touch Of fringe nauree where shoes trousers,
and the vest pockets slightly frayed We trust this is
regle.
The Freeborn (Iowa Courier made good last week on
bit Of that might easily have escaped in the general
hurry to get to The Courier
came pretty near getting scooped on an item this week.
eye open would have we 90
to Oscar Sanborn having three fingers by
threshng machine sent for. Details in
next
When Oscar inserted his fingers into the agricultural
machinery the Couriers reporter, who was the spot
leaped for the office and excedy stopped the last form
just it going the press It margin
49,
While resting quietly a slight vacation in the
old Pine Tree state last week and whiting Single to
while away the long hours before tea the caught the
fact in the local paper that the North Waldo correspondent
writing up his batch of items for the week. had included
the important that 'E Keen has purchased nice
two-seated wagon.'
While meditating this and it's probable effect
North Waldo loud outcry made by five little
girls the steps of neighborng house caught the
They just out Of school and engaged an exciting
game called cold Bloody Tom"
"Old Bloody Tom is something Of a classic. It Is
closely allied to "RawHead- and Bloody Bones" and
doubtless came from England with the early Puritan
coonsts One Of the little girls is chosen represent the
ensanguned party and another little girl is selected as
moher' Mother then takes the flock her doorstep
they secretly named. One little girl becomes 'Pumpkir
Pie' another "Apple Pie third is ''Cottage Puddng
and
After they named and playing comfortably about
the house, "Od Bloody Tom suddenly appears and rap
fercely the step with his club The mother goes to the
door and asks
Who comes in sight
This dark, stormy nights
The villain Of the play fierce and vndicve ali
and replies
Old Bloody Tom
With his night cap
There Is SILVER Of apprehension on the STEP TIL
mother says:
Stand far from my
But state your DESIRE
Tom then tells her that he has wandered far from h;
castle and would have food and shelter The mother ask
Pie.'
Then the little girl named "Apple Pe'' shrieks wildly
leaps from her seat and flies into the night Bloody Tor
gives chase, captures and mpounds her in his castle an
returns for -...sF ..---- r.
After they all captured the mother goes after the1
and rescues them before they eate happily amid muc
shr1eklng running chasing recapture and It is
fierce wild and strs the blood to dauness deeds
heroism.
It is said that made Of the ferces cold Blood
Toms in Lnconville, and the escapes
several little girls from being alive are being trem
bingy retold today all up and down the neighborhood
"A j. R.