The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-19
TWO DAYS in CHER
RY HEAVEN
LATEST EFFUSIoN FROM RAB-
BITvILLE IN WHICH AN AS
ToRIAN TAKES OVER SOME
OF THE GOOD THINGS.

This is the very latest story from
Rabbibville, as told in The Dalles
Optinist, one of the snappiest of the
Z. o. papers. 1t will be observed
that the yarn is told, all in one breath
no breaks, no paragraphs, just one
long, lord, sweet song of cherries.
Speaking about cherries minds
me that / was down to the cherry
fare at The Dalles, and it was CRATE
show, the gratest ever seen, the
gratest ennybody ever seen. The
Dalles foxes sure does things up rite.
The feller what secretaries the Bizi-
ness Mems Club, Gentleman by the
naim of Patterson, fine chap he is
TOO, and onto his job "a hours out of
EVERY day; we'll, he got his team and
] had feller with me. a feller from
Astoria, wieh is town down where
the Columbia ends and where the
deep blew see begins, newspaper
Teller, the feller what runs the As
torian newspaper, newspaper what
has been trying to get the peepul to
pass law prohibiting sammon from
coming IN on the south side of the
river above Astoria. His name is
Dellinger, Well Mr.. Dellinger went
out with Mister, Patterson and Ne,
and we seen sum cherry orchards,
not menny, just a few, mebbe about
100, mebbe a $50, mebee about a mil
lion trees. ! dunno just how menny,
neither does Dellinger, for we got
confused at the site of tuns and tuns
of cherries, CRATE big red ones cal
led the Royal Annie, and annother
kind, big black kind, called the
Bingo, after the old song, "And
Bingo was his i1aim." Well, the Roy
all Annie was the best froot emmy
man ever eft, onless he ct Bingo, |
and vicey versy Mister Dellinger
says to Mister Patterson, Mister Pat
terson says he. Il always thought the
helth, prosperity and future good Of
Oregon rested on sammon cheeks,
tin cans, sanes and fshhooks, but now
] see was rong, ded rong, and from
now on am willing, more than will
ing, that the sammon can run up this
side of the river, if you will let few
cherries trickle down to Astoria"
"And so we will waive the bloody |
shirt, covered with the gore of the
sammon, no more" says Mister Del
1inger, "for this day hath mine eyes
been opened and the skales (goak)
has dropped off Of en-" And then
we ct annother peck of cherries, then
we cum into town and ] ses to Mister
Dellinger, ses I, Mister Dellinger,
we also and likewise can sum cher
ries." So I took him around to a en-
porum on Second street and called
for paluser, and there in the bottom
of the glass was cherry! One lone
cherry And | ses to Mister Dellinger,
ses. "This is palouser, palouser
under Non De Plum, and it VII be
your Falt if you don't like it, for it
will show lack Of cddication." And
Mister Delinger replied, "You will
find that ] will soon be highly eddi-
Gated man, for | am determined to
tive mostly on cherries from now on,
finding they taste better one at a
time, cooked like this one" And then
we parted to meet at the Cherry
Fare next year. And in the meen-
time we hope Mister Dellinger will
not get the cherry habit so rank as
to forget to let phew sammon, emmy
how a phew little fellers, come up
along this side of the river"