The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-09

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! 'Pffrulsi-PfrulsiI" gasped her bet
ter half, as he lay prone on the
| ground, one end of the aforesaid
kettle still sticking into his manly
forehead.
The inoffensive Pensacolion, OF
course, knew at once what they were
talking about
so you mean to tell me that I'm
! off my trolley when | tell you that
| this is really a reincarnation of the
| Paleolithic agel" the wife had snaTled
as she let go her touching missile
and her husband, being hard hit, had
murmured apprOvingly:
| Yes indeed, certainly, if you say
SO, my deari Yes indeed'-and had
| lapsed into painful silence.
Then the angry female turned to
| the Pensacolian and proceeded in her
own peculiar tongue, which, fortunate
! ly, from long hObnobbing with the
] Goddess Science, he understood
Il am merely trying to convert
| AdamonUs. my husband she said.
| apolOgetically, Ito the belief that we
are actually living in a second edI-
ton of the real Stone Age.
AT first he quite conceded with
my views There was the utter dark
| ness which prevailed, Unhampered by
{
world; there were the Didoceris, the
great horned birds who swooped down
occasionally, and laid eggs in our
apple orchard as big as Sunday
| edition of The Pensacola journal
| and there were many, any other
| things Great horned lizards, many
| feet long, came flying into our home
| at break of day-to ash for a drink
'NThe winged ClisoZili, who roosts
on our back fence each night of our
lives (when we are able to tell when
night comeS) grew to eat from my
hands.
Then Adamonus sneaked off one
day and went to Pensacola.
OF course, he naturally didn't wear
an abundance of clothing at the start,
but, where he finally wound up at
well, it didn't matter overly much
/ am told.
n ne came back" (here she
sighed heartfelt sigh you wouldn't
have known my Adamonus. He had
| been gone a week-and the simple
life didn't look good to him any more
He had cut up the earth with an
automobile one night He had been
up against creme de menthe. an alb
S1nthe or two, and a fearful and
wonderful champagne sousing When
he came back'-here her voice broke
with the emotion she feIt-''he alb
solutely insisted upon wearing pa
jamas and Panama hat. He had
an affinity, too among other things.
and was for cutting loose from me
and the PaIeolithic age, once and
for all Then l threw the kettle, and
you arrived"
She paused for sympathy.
Great bumps were rising on the
injured Uranium of her husband She
continued to gaze wrathfulIy in his
direction and the inoffensive Pensa-
colian, who plying the man from the
depths of his quaking heart, quietly
made. his escape
He 'plodded on
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Great waving ponds of poisonous
palms upon which fingered cIinging.
1attenlng lizards and great staring in
Sects hurried his tagging footsteps.
The atmosphere had even grown
putrid and i'll smelling. and the light
OF his &c cigar went out.
The air was alive with mammoth
lying thlngs-great birds who had the
ms or a fish and the tail of a snake
Science told him they were Ziizi.
nltzi-he knew all about Zilzfnitzi
Then the peculiar condition of the
itself. ~ "SSer
He felt his body become inflated
and drawn on by a peculiar. awfuI
power "hui
1t was the power of a reversed
sraVltaton. he told himself reassur-
lngiy, as he found himself borne fror,
the earth and rapidly carried f,o,,,
inns place of uneaTthly smells and
hideous things
He literally swan through tho air
The Odors of hundreds of nungont
"eedS- varied with a seasons growth
Smote hIm-stil he scared on.
Far behind him sounded the voica
OF the excavating party.
even found time to pIty the
poor slShtIess fishes. who would PROB
aDIiy soon De brought face to face
with the light of day-and h won
dered furtively if the PaIeoiitbic men
would have the forethouyht To don
MS paJamas, when his home voDI1
nnaIly ne despoiled and he and his
WE would be forced to fee for tbejr
safety. 'Oi 'He4r
Inc poor sucker. he reflected nm.
namely, had probably never tho,rgbt
OF barrels as an expedient in such a
him W N"nIi Oht
Finally dim light in the distance
warned him that his Jungle exn1o,-a-
tlon was soon to be at an end.
As he neared the border. a fresh
Dreeze tanned his face, and he feit
revived and worldly once more
me town clock was striking ny
and the inOfensiYe Pensac6Ifan
once outside the pale of SulIiyan's
JIh -"hlcn was the seIfsame inn
gle that had already made Pa1sa-
cola famous" silently-sneskincI~
and with a due reverence to his o.,
particular brand of civic pride r.
tiiy stole down Palafox street IN IT,
very nearest wet goods emporium
TO BE HAPPY
you must nave good health. Yo,, ,.,..
have good health if your liver is 80
doing its duty-slow but sure noieoT-