The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-08-15

IL lie
can sit down to pie for dinner every
day in the year, but the thirty-first
day Of February, he will keep good
natured and won't grieve over not hav-
Ing enough pie-that is, Of course, II
Mrs. Johnson will see that he gets pie
Tor luncheon three hundred and sixty
five days a year, with an occasional
sla of pie between meals, and just
before retiring at night! More than
this, Doc" doesn't care a whoop for
pie.
o Doc" has an itinerant man
cf-all-work about the place who don't
like pie. He don't care much for to-
bacco, either. If he can chew tobacco
between meals, Alex won't insist on
side dishes during the dessert course.
He doesn't believe in OVERRIDING a good
thing, so he never chews tobacco
when he is asleep nor when attending
divine services. And he does go to
sleep, too.
Well, Alex came back to work this
summer and doc" hailed him with
good will. The place needed six sods
turned upside down, and the ROSTERS
comb had fallen out during the win
ter and demanded a irst-class hair
dresser-and so Doc" was glad to see
Alex.
Come right in, Alex" ne cried:
Were just having breakfast and ]
know you'll like our apple pie"
Thank you, DR.. Johnson, but you
know T don't eat ME l."
"Oh, come right on il. Don't eat
pie? The ideal"
Alex was hustled into a seat and
Doc" summoned the mad.
Bring Alex a big piece of that new
apple pie you made yesterday"
But, DOCTOR" interrupted Alex.
II don't like"
Now, never you mind, Alex. Mary,
you bring Alex In the biggest slice
of pie there is out there. l know
what that pie tastes like and ne don't"
But, my dear" interrupted Mrs.
Johnson, nudging him under the ia
BILE, ALEX doesn't want pie. He
doesn't like pie. He
There, there, now, don't get fus-
trated. Don't you think l know what
Alex likes? Why, there isn't a man
living that wouldn't like that apple
pie. bring it in, Mary!"
Mary bowed resignedly, left the
room and returned with a dish which
she placed before the wriggling Alex.
He gave n gasp and cried:
You bet l like pie!"
What the maid had brought was a
quarter section of plug chewing to-
bacco, cut ~pie-shaped!
DOC" had slipped in and tipped off
the joke to Maryland together they
had put a hot one over on Mrs. Doc"
and Alex
900
U~nrequited.
From out the sylvan wood she came,
A naiad born of simple grace,
A rose within her Titan hair.
Twin rosebuds in her glowing face.
JJpon the rustic bridge she stood
And watched the minnows in the
stream
A bit of dainty imagery,
A perfect poem and a dream!
All, long she stood as one who loves
The blessings of the simple life
A beauteous queen of supple form,
A lovely being for a wife!
But, as I stood in raptured gaze,
Half drunk within the nectared wood,
A step adown the rustic path,
Quite changed her listless attitude!
And next a sunburned youth appeared
With sleeves rolled up, in summer
clothes
Within his lips a cigarette,
And many freckles on his nose!
He caught the naiad by the waist
And squeezed her like a grizzly bear.
And on her lips he socked a kiss
That spoiled my hour of dreaming
there!
All. you who dream beside the stream,
Beware of naiads. Have a carei
Too oft, afinities OF gawks,
they wait in trysting dreamland there.
Full oft a man may waste his time
BY gazing at a dream in white,
To find some skate has COPIED the prize
And comes to ''buss" her in the night!
600
The Reason Why.
IT isn't so much the bite of the mos
quito we object to-, but the undue de
liberation which precedes his desecra-
ton calls for execration and verbera
ton. The laceratiCn and subsequent
/. liberation demands reasonable vocif-
GRAFTON, but it is no ~exaggeration to
remark that if the blooming little dev-
il-wagon would only make acceleration
In his oscillation and not buzz around
So like all creation before he bites,
there might be some liberation and re-
generation of sentiment in favor of
him. AS it is there is much expostula-
ton, defamation and condemnation
against the "skeeter!"
600
Staying.
A paragraph is going the rounds
about a girl dying from tight lacing.-
Nordheim (Tex.) View.
Well, at least, she might be said to
have stayed until the last.-San An
tonic Express.
Still, if she didn't stay how could
she last?