The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-06
THEY HAVE NO UPPER TEETH
Queer Thing About Sheep Is Fact,
but Hard to Prove.
Washington Starr

| friends of old standing. met on Labor
| Day. They came together in a restau-
| rant bazaar at a table in an alcoye
and touched the button sunmoning the
Ganymede quite often, and talked
things over most amicably until the
subject of sheep came up.
| One of these square jaHed. stubborn
men had put in a part of his vacation
on farm some where up in Maryland
and he learned lot of things up there
about farm critters and such like THAI
he'd never known before. And so. when
| he met his old friend. he left like air.
ing some of his informa ton when the
conversation in the alcove Jagged a bit
Say he said TO his friend at hat
stage of it, it's queer thing about
sheep, isn't it,
What's queer about sheep?" asked
the other.
Found it out up at that old farrr
where 1 was stopping" said the man
with the newfound facts about farm
animals. sheep haven't got any up
per teeth at ALL"
The other man gazed at the nara
tor of this peculiar fact with amaze
ment. and then incredulity, and then
disgust.
Jaw, come off, he growled after the
long pause. sheep haven't got any
upper teeth? Aw, c'moff"
Fact, though said the man who'd
vaCationized on the farm. Nary an
upper tooth in the head of any sheep"
''Whatchoo givin' us?" grouched the
other. Don't try to tell me such rot
Can't tell me such tommyrot as that
l know different"
"Betcha," said the man who claimed
to know from observation.
Jaw bet nothing" growled the iD-
dull ssATfUHf 70, ~
me the sun never shone. How the
dickens 'ud sheep chew their grub il
they didn't have any upper teeth
Cmoff"
"'S'all right" stuck out the other
1--WE got it on you there all right
podner. They haven't any, and that's
all there is about it,
They chewed and chawed and mum
ched in such fashion for about half ali
hour, and they called over half doz-
en- friends of theirs who dropped ~ AT
the bar to put that Sleeps teeth ques-
ton to them. and some of the friends
held that sheep didn't have teeth, and
others that they did, and a whole lot
of rounds of drinks were bought while
the thing was being argued over, and
the proprietor of the rumorium looked
happy.
SO only one way of getting this
IlllG DNGu DilGny dIiiiO0iiCCd Tue
man who didn't believe in the no
teeth statement, land that's to go
somewhere and find some sheep and
look 'em over. I'll never believe il till
you show me, that's all.
This suggestion was perfectly agree
aole 70 the stubborn man who had made
the statement.
So they went out of the booze plant
and hailed a cab and made the rounds
of half a dozen butchers plants. But
it being a holiday, all of these institu-
tions were closed up, and they got no
action on their investigation. They were
pretty well picked by this time, for
they stopped at lost of places tina,
weren't butchers plants along the
route.
well" said the incredulous one
when 1t was seen that they wouldn't
be able TO corral any sheep in WASH
ington, well have to go some place
where there are sheep, that's all"
I'm there" said the man who had
vacatiouized on the farm, and they
went to the Pennsylvania station and
got there just in time to make local
trains for points in Virginia.
From that time on the story becomes
somewhat hazy with the tellers of IL.
They poked their heads out of the
window at every stop OF the train, it
seems, ana inquired OF pcOcie OH tne
platforms II there were any sheep
around there that would be willing to
open their mouths and show whether
they had any teeth or not. but they
didn't appear to get any satisfactory
replies to these questions that they
could remember.
They got off the train after about two
hours at a little tank station and found
out from the station keeper that there
wasn't a sheep within fourteen miles
of the station, and they had to fight
flies and mosquitoes and go without a
drink for six hours before they could
get rain back TO Washington, and
they got back here after midnight af-
ter all of the places they knew about
were closed. and they had to crawl
soiled and weary and dusty and mis-
era BILE. into a street car and stink,
drinkless off to their homes, to take
the lecturing Of their wives, all on ac-
count of the upper teeth of sheep,
when, as a simple matter of fact, as
Mrs Harris would say, they amt no
such thing as sleeps upper teeth, af-
ter all.