The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-08-31
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! BY Gilbert p. Coleman {

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had the little boys and the girls go
first, because, as he told me after.
wards. there might be some snow
left after the first roll-off, and he
thought the big boys could handle
that best
1t didn't take the kids long to catch
on. They begun with a little ball
you know, the kind you throw at
persOn-and rolled them along until
they got about as big as q barrel, and
then. when they reached a good place
at the edge of the ridge. they give
them a shove, and down they go,
sailing along serene and tidy gather
ing up momentum and snow, and
clearing that street fine and elegant
by the noble law of gravitation.
There was one thing, though, that
Tommy forgot He forgot to give
the citizens of Pikeville due warning
as to just what kind of oh. tquies
were going to take place, and the re-
suit was that when those snowballs,
some o them as big as small barn,
come tearin' down along Main street,
why there was some pretty nimble
side-stepping by people who happened
to be doing chores around about that
| time. 1t just seemed like that street
was alive with snowballs They come
| pllin and swishin' and roarin' down
| so fast you couldn't count 'em, and
| speedier than Vanderbilt cup racer,
| and getting bigger and bigger every
| second, while the good citizens and
citi2enesses that happened to be hang.
Ing around begun to get move on
| like the very old Nick was after them
hustling into doorways and behind
| telegraph poles. and wherever there
| was chance to escape that SNOWFALL
| cyclone. And, sir, those balls kept
| on doing the street cleaning business
| better than a hundred Dagoes could
"a done It until they strike the level
| Just across the railroad tracks, and
| come to a halt right on the edge o.
the river. Say, 1t was a sight to
see them snowballs piled up along
that bank. You would "a thought
Fl, they were pile of white elephants
hudded together.
The only trouble was to decide who
had won the prize. because each snow.
bah looked bigger than the other, and,
besides. nobody could tell which was
which But Tommy finally settled 1t
all right. He picked out the littlest
girl in all that crowd-you could "a
packed n hundred like her away in
the SNOWFALL that Tommy swore she'd
rolled-and give her the money, but
everybody seemed satisfied, for they
most sure had more than five dollars
worth of sport
Clean the streets up? Why, there
amt street cleaning department In
the country that could "a done the
Job any sllcker. And, sir, you wouldn'
believe II, maybe. but in some places
those thunderin' big snowballs had
even ripped up the cobble stones 1t
was & wonderful demonstratlon-that s
the way Tommy put it-of the work.
, ing Of the laws of gravitation AMI
, capillary attraction. to say nothing
of mysterious Providence.
We needed that eight hundred bad
there being evidences at the United
States hotel that we had about ex,
HauSltu oul supply VI NtlcOlits lHtIt
was about 5000 left over, and Tommy
| like the good boy he always is, div
, We'd up among the crowd. Some oil
r the fellows--you know you have to ex
cuse them, they hadn't seen money
, for 80 long-were itching to get theil
hands on some mere coin, seem thi;
I come so easy; but Tommy said he
; had neglected to take out a patent OF
/ his method, and that the city ia
. theirs were just mean enough to offe,
/. their own prize for big snowballs IL
/. the future; and, besides, all tn,
streets didn't run down hill
q Anyhow, as said, we cleaned NJ
a $500, which was plenty to get US bacl
n To Broadway, where the electric light,
A are.