Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-11-15
HOT TALK.

"one of the gags of the professional
lunnylsls and the ground and lofty
Jokeslniths for the past forty Years q.
SO has appertained to the mar who in
quires on Il hot day. Is il hot enough
Tor You observed the man With the
l~rotruding chin and the deep. hoars.
Voice.
We'll. l want that gag Cancelled.
scratched. written off. daubed out. Gu,
away. Topped and sent to the boneyari
along with the Custard- pie-full-of-ants-
at-the-picnic joke. the young fellow
who-stays-late screech and ~scw-a-but-
ton-on-my-shirt thing and a whole lot
OF other passe and decrepit ones that
ought To have been wiped away long
before Artemus Ward and Josh Billings
caShed IN.
whats the matter with the man
who asks If it is hot enough for You,
anyhow What's wrong about his quos-
ton? Why shouldn't he ask ii it's hot
enough for You? Why should he he Il
target for all these gagg,sts who pick u
little thing like that up and masticate
on II for a hundred years or so. till
everybody who reads just the first line
knows the old thing by heart. no mat
ter In what different kind of way it's
twisted?
III the day is hot. why shouldn't a
man say so?
when the days cold we bleat about
it and discuss it and comment on 1t and
ompare thermometers and brag about
how cold 1t is on our second-story porch
and make a whole peck of conversation
in general about it, don't we?
IF we're staked to n big heap OF
snow we gnaw the blanket about that.
too, don't we. and tell each other how
high it is in drifts and on the level.
n how our suburban car butted
through the tallest drift of all, and how
we had to shovel a path out the kitchen
way. and how we like to've lost our
lives trying to get home. and all that
sort of gay snow poliXity. don we,
hey?
If the rain comes dow pretty steady
and powerful. were there with right
hefty stories, aren't we. about how we
couldn't see our hands before us for 1t
out our way. and after While we drift
back to the times when the heavy rains
and melting snow In the mountains
made the floods during which skiffs
We're seen on Pennsylvania I'M and
We're Observation-Disclosures
with all kinds and nne of spicls ON
the rain question. aren't we, 1 ask
aEIin?
IF there's n nifty hail storm. we
prattle 10 end. don we. about the size
of the hailstones in front of our house,
ANA about what narrow escape our fox
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