Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-10-03
6anderbone's October Forecast.

tober, when the quail shall whistle
shrill, when the coal man gets in
action with his pesky little bill (;
when the frost and pumpkin poet
sings the old familiar strain, and
the foot ball gladiators scramble one
another's brains.
Doubly welcome, hallowed season,
When wild goose travels space, I
When the hunter in the wildwood
Shoots the rabbit in the face.
When the last years. hat made over
Shows up the new fall stock,
And the bug fed turkey shudder
Every time he sees the block.
Secretary Taft will be the lead
ing presidential candidate for the
month. He will reach Japan on his
trip around the world, and when he
steps ashore the island will tip
up. The Mikado will have him
lifted TO the Imperial Roof Garden
with block and tackle, and the pop
ulace will hold the roof up while
Bill and Mutsuhito eat rice cakes
together and open a few bottles of
saki to the continued amity of
nations.
In our own country, President
Roosevelt will proceed early in the
month upon his annual fresh water
cruise. He will 60 down the Mis-
sissipi from Keokuk to Memphis,
while cheering multitudes congre-
gate on the banks and count his
teeth. Uncle Joe Cannon will buy
another thousand feet of light
ming rod, buckwheat cakes will
renew their tug -of-war with EPSON
salts in the innards of man, and
the cost of living will take birds
eye view of the economic PROPOSE
ton.
The autumn nights inspiriting
shall grow little longer, and the
breath of fall on cider sweet shall
grow little stronger. The hus-
bandnan shall sell his hogs and
think to prosper on it, but the good
housewife will take the dough and
buy winter bonnet.
County fairs will be in full blast.
The heavy fragrance of roasted
peanuts will decoy the cautious
nickel from the pants pocket of the
loving swain. The toy balloon
will drag the small boy around the
grounds. The man with the long
awning on his cap will sit on the
tail of the winged-footed trotter
and slap her around the track with
a barrel stave. The man in red
underwear will rise in balloon
hanging by his toc-naifs, and the
family that Roosevelt is enthusiast
tic about will weave through the
crowd tied together on long
clothes line.
The husky husker in the corn
Will trill his little ballod,
The raccoon in the forest deep
Will eat persimmon salad,
The robin redbreast, growing chilled
Will slowly south ward flutter,
And the angels in the sky will
catch
The scent of apple butter.
The moon will be full on the
21st. Campers will go off to the
woosd to play poker all night and
sleep all day. Hog killing time
will fill the hog with concern for
his near future, and he will hustle
around after acorns in philosophic
enjoyment of his last few days.
The football rooter, full of root,
will go off on his Autumn toot
the player with the college hair
while the horns and trumpet:
blare, will butt Ground till he i.
thrown and someone breaks his col
lar bone. The lusty sound of rah.
rah-rahs will urge the fell anc
bloody cause; the girls, in mass
and colors come, will sing anc
scream and swallow gum. Tn,
giant fullback, fierce and stout
will pick little fellow out, kicl
in his stats and change his face,
and maui him up and down tn,
place, and when the Zoe shall cease
to breathe will proudly claim tn,
victor's wreathe.
The farmer with the mortgage
Who is prone to giving notes
Will figure up the proceeds
From his wheat and corn an,
oats,
And wonder if his cash in hand
Will pull him out the hole
Or whether ne will have to give
A mortgage on his soul.
The hunting season will keei
the rabbit on the wing and tn
quail on the jump. The crack sho
from town viii range into tn
county with his burr proof gun an