The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-08-10
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Uncle Hicks Visit 10 New YORK.

N'NiN A4AAhos WIZ AIlASa tuG NAlNl.
bus of one Of the Adirondack resorts.
is doing a roaring trade these days.
Every run the omnibus makes be-
tween The station and the hotel sees
every seat occupied, and there is an
early rush to get the dickey seat with
old Uncle, in the hope that he viii
hold forth on his recent marvellous ex
periences in and about New York.
Uncle" Hicks. be 1t known, has
lived in the mountains for IS years
and since his week in the metrolopus"
ha is inclined to say, with Chevalier
"it don't seem day TOO much But
the mountain resort was thrown into
CONSERVATION one morning last week
when Uncle" Hicks appeared at the
station with carpet bag, wearing his
go-tomeeting raiment and minus the
omnibus.
Me-" he said, with the air Of
man who has made up his mind I'm
going to Nyawk l been thinkin O.
doin it fir tn las % years-an now
I'm doin it, he added, firmly.
And so Uncle Hicks departed with
lis carpet bag. The engine driver and
the conductors knew Uncle" Hicks
ard felt honored. Uncle was hon.
oged, TOO, for the engine footed as he
got aboard, and footed Vociferously
when Uncle" Hicks came back. There
was a delegation Of Adirondackers to
meet him. Also the omnibus was
waiting
The Adirondackers who had crowd
ed in to hear the wonderful tale were
disappointed Uncle" Hicks chewed
metrolopus cigar and gazed
blankly at the landscape. He did
youchsafe a remark to the effect that
Summer seems ter be bit late up
this way"
Then the rush fell off and reporter
/ took advantage Of an empty omnibus
to get on the dickey He approached
/ the subject with reportorial tact. The
impressions of a man who had waited
/ rs years before visiting the metropolis
4 could not fail to be interesting from
4 psychological standpoint. The re-
porter recalled the first time he him
self had seen the inside of the Hippo
dfome
The Hippodrome!" said Uncle"
Hicks, with start Of recollection. 4
went thar twicet The stage O. that
thar place is about ESQ feet long and
about so or 80 feet wide seen it in
the program book. An thars tank
in it We cud shoot, duck in. l seen
more animiles-parformin' animiles-
in that thar plac-
But whut TUX me-talkin' Of ami
miles--was that Bronical Zoo"
The what did you say, ncle?"
Il said the Bronicsl Zoo" said
Uncle" Hicks, with a glare by
dun. / seen animiles thar that don't
believe is livin' any other place !
seen thing they call a zebra, which
is just blame mule painted up to
look queer But know hosskind, an
# didn't fool me-
"I seen sea lion, too. That was
genwine, all right. cause it hadn't no
feet. II fiappered up on the rocks an
howled like mad. That's dun
queer beast. I must ha looked at that
beast for an hour n a quarter"
Did you see the snakes, uncle?"
Nav. didn't" said 'Uncle" Hicks.
Il don't love them things well enough
10 20 an look at them for fun. But
seen thing thar / wantit to ask
someb'dy abaout 1t was bird-I
reckn It was meant for bird-an' it
lad bill like a shovel"
Was it q touean, uncle?"
Nav, it warn't no tOOcan"
Maybe it was a duck-mole."
Now, it warn't no duck.mole,
neither
The reporter tried few more, but
in vain
Anyhow. It was a dun queer
beast said Uncle" Hicks. with an air
Of finality. "Reck'n they got every
blame thing on airth thar. They even
got slsuuks.'
You must have gone in the sub
way to get there?' suggested the re
porter.
THE subway" said uncle with q
frown. "rhe way they hustle a mar
in that place is a disgrace.
"But New York itself, uncle? How
about Broadway"
Pretty fair town." said uncle. In
differently. But I was disapp'inte,
some. Ye wud think t. hear folk tall
It was a dun bad place f'r accidents
an murders and thieves. But neyei
lost a cent while I wus thar, 'cept II
one O. them blame slot mohines. /
either wus a swindle or it wusn'
workin. But went to a busy corne
on Broadway and stood thar Is min
utes. l seen 30 trolley cars pass
counted 'em-an dezzens Of automo
bnes and kerridges an waggins-an
there wusn't blame accident that
cud see.
Il went TO a show on Broad Way
too II was called A Day f'r Night
an wus a dun good show too"
But what did you think Of the tal