The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-27
DRIFT WOOD
BY PHIL H. ARMSTRONG.

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 Honest now--haven't you plenty to be thankful for?
 The small boy eyes the big Turkey with pitying but satisfying gaze these . Hetty Green says the demand for .
 Hetty doesn't know how badly we need the money.
 !, Girls would cry more if it didn't make their noses red.
 A Virginia nah says the world is certainly coming to an end in January. Indeed 1t is in Georgia-Aiabama has one year longer. Have good time long
 As you've got a red"
 You're long time dead
 Texas has few short-cornings says The Austin Statesman. She has more than a few knocks cominge however. from tho newspapers of the country. . Two hnge bears were killed in the Styx River Bottoms In Baldwin county last week. The President made a mis- take in not coming to Alabama to do his hunting.
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 Glad November Days. Its the, glad November days. And each nodding rose that sways
 Tn the Alabama sunshine
 With the zephyrs wars ana plays And each silver throated bird Tn the trees with liquid word
 Speaks his sweet melodious message Sweetest music ever heard.
 Its the glad November days Der the woods the purpied haze
 Like a fairy veil enchanting Sets the fancy In daze'
 And the Bob White from the fields Where the sage his small form shields
 The melancholy whistle to his absent
 mate he yields.
 Wood nymphs with joy are mad There's no time for feeling sad--4 sd1s@ses!si%s J" sss slsfa ss!sss ssd slssy - If The Houston Post contemplates forwarding us one of it's Texas pos. sums" for Thanksgiving we'd suggest wouldn't be much. :~
 W. L. Metz of Monroe county. killed a 11-month- h-old shoat recently which weighed 4o4 pounds.
 R. L. Cullman of Andalusia killed a rare-spotted alligator the other day which was nine feet, six inches in length, and had nest. of twenty-four young pairs of gaitors and three un- matched eggs.
 Ten Alabama girls at a church sup per recently auctioned off a cake for sss,so. but a delicious home cooked of anyone of Alabana's beautiful bright domestic girls is worth that.
 Drift Armstrong says an Alabama man caught forty three 'possums In one night and that he can prove 1t. No body with a spark of human sympathy in his breast will be mean enough to wake, Drift after this.-Houston Post.
 We are indisposed to dignity with notice the boast of a Missouri paper that somebody captured sixteen possums and three coons in a week. A Texas nigger caught twenty-six pos. sums in one night recently and refused to take any more because he had no more room In his cart-Houston Post. RraaS%aH NSsth iIai AIa6ama man n, ns%ed NiSs Scottsboro. caught forty-three Tat 'possums in one night recently and we can prove it. Now. will you proceed position ?-Montgomery Advertiser.
 Forty-three Alabama 'possums in one night; he probably effected their cap ture With sticky fly paper or battery of mouse traps. If they, like Texas possums, were too big for anything but a bear trap he never could have done it.-Houston Post. H
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 One of the poetic ideas which, has have recently come out of the West. Lochinvar, like. Is thus described by The Washington Times:
 What may be termed the boarding house primer has been invented Tn Chicago for the use of adults learning English. The invention is the product of young woman named Barr--Miss Addie V. Barr-who is related. we should say rather to Mir. Dooley or the late Bill Nye than to Froebel or Horace Mann
 say there is a pupil of the name of Prwyzdcbinsky. Here. in the effete East. brave but probably futile at- tempt would be made to pronounce the name. Miss Barr wastes no time with such a detail. Her duty is to teach her pupils the beauties of English and this is how she performs; "'For two weeks she names her pupils after the produce of the pack CTS. 'You are a sausage" she says to one. To another You are a pork. chop" and to the third. You are q ham" Again "You are a lobster. The duty of the persons so named is to find out all about his new name. and ln investigation Is supposed to become familiar with names whiclI~he or she require in eveBy day conversation, This week the pupils are frits, one is a lemon. another a lime. orange