The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
WHAT A MAN GAN DREAM TO
 THE TUNE OF A LAWN MOWER
BY JAMES B. KEELING.

when saw it was large rabbit What do you think that rabbit did? He sat up on his hind legs. then put his fore feet to his ears and wagged both feet
 and ears at me- That was too much.
 turned about and broke In dead run in the opposite direction, with that bunny
 close behind.
 T don't know how far I ran, but
 suddenly tripped on something and
 went down tumbHng head oyer heels down a steep hill. I wound up at tho bottom with a thump and jar. landing on some huge object. This object sud denly raised up and then dropped
 again, which caused me to jump to my feet in alarm. The roaring by this time was absolutely deafening,
 and I stuck my fingers in my ears in an effort to keep out some of the
 sound. Thus holding my ears I be- gan an examination of the object upon which had landed. What do you think
 1t was? That object was nothing more I nor less than a tremendous giant, fully | one hundred feet long, sprawling out
 on the ground taking nap, and had
 landed squarely on his diaphragm.
 which was heaving up and down.
 T then found out where the terrific roaring was coming from. Here lay my giant, who was dressed in the latest mollycoddle fashion, and who bore @ growth of bush hair upon his | face sufficient to fill several thousand l mattresses. There he law stretched | over half an acre of ground, with his mouth wide open, from which there
 emitted snore which sounded like a broadside from the scout cruiser Bir- | mingham. Even though I held my fin- gers In my ears the terrific snoring was about to burst my ear drums an11
 realized that something must be done
 very quick or they would burst.I I scrambled off of my giant lay hat
 on the ground and gathered some grass which I packed into my ears and held 1t there with my hands. This helped -. little bit, but nothing could keep out all of the sound.
 T was, of course, very much inter- ested in my find and continued my ex- animation of him. I crawled upon his
 chest, then walked along his throc [,
 and seizing his whiskers climbed upon
 ms chin. which looked like a tremend-
 ous ledge 1uttfng out from Red moun- tain. wanted to get closer to tire source of that sound and took a look at his mouth. The mouth of Mammoth cave wasn't in it by the side of that mouth. l crawled to the edge of his
 lip and out onto his teeth, which look ed like huge boulders, and gazed down
 into the depths. I have looked into
 many deep hole, but that is the deep- est have ever gazed into.
 HIS teeth were slippery, and before I Knew what l was about, my feet had shot { out from under me, and l went shooting out over the edge and began falling. Oi the horrible sinking in the pit of my stomach! Down, down, down. I landed
 on tine side of his tongue and continued downward on a wild shoot -the-chutes ride. l reached the root of his tongue at last. and then the most violent earthouake in the histor yof the world began to take place.
 "The tongue began to beat about was squeezed. ] was tossed about Then the mouth contracted and was squeezed horribly. Then 1t opened, and the furies of hades broke about me. A terrific ex- plosion took place. shot up out of the mouth, up, up, higher and higher I was up in the clouds. Suddenly my upward course ceased and I began falling. Again the horrible sinking in the pit of my stomach Down, down, down; l don't know how many miles. The air shrieked by my ears. I gathered courage enough to look down and saw an immense open ing below me. As I dropped lower and