The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-07

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.This Burbank guy" Ne said. b sur0
wonder. amt her"
- - nodded.
II suppose before long he'll be grating corn o.
% beans and getting succotash' he continued spec
uiativsiy. And then hell nx his apple trees SOS
they bear pertaters. thereby saving al the trouble
Ct diggtug en-
II shouldn't Be at oil surprised assented '.Ths
wonders that science each day unfolds are almost
unbeifsvabie."
He nodded profoundly At my very trite remark.
YES" he agreed. And that same science 10
folding up few wonders. too. that don't never
Near nothing about. Take my friend Vertigo smith.
~ instance
.who vas her" queried interestedly.
"You never heard OF himy" responded my visa
vis: who asks question. knowing before
haHd the answer.
No replied.
And you ain't lonesome" he observed. Lots
. people never heard Of him; and never will. But
- his way. no has this Burbank party skinned .
league I'll tell yer about him II got time" he
volunteered.
Is had the ame. plenty of Il: and 30 said. Where
., taking long draught from the glass at his e-
bow. and wiping his trailing mustachs the back
% his hand. no began:
Back In nlnety-nine was prospecting around
through Californy. looking for gold but finding
lnoehing but sore feet and thirst. Fate
handing me out deal from the bottom Of the deck
and Was reduced at length to burrer loaded
with shovel and the habliments was standing
IN. I retained said shovel and raiments only be-
eauss couldn't soil 'em and said burrer only be-
sause couldn't give him away.
..wsI. one AFTERNOON I'm tramping along with
despair IN my heart and even less in my stomach,
wondering weakly whether there's enough meat
tie burrer 70 pay for mending the teeth I'm liable
- break picking It on when suddenly comes to
t1rn N the trail ana there before spreads veg
stat,onous valley full Of the most fulsome verdure
1Aat ever you. see
I'm the middle OF this valley there stands 'dobe
0ansion and al around 1t the most amazing coilec-
tton Of sheds and shacks that ever you laid your
lamps On. There were some high ones and some
low ones and some long ones and some short Ones
And what with the house. they all looks like big
Bu0 Cochin hen surrounded by . bunch OF the most
11l-assorted chickens that was.
~Aowevsr. Amt hypercritical. where Tiers
me- there's BEANS says to myself And II par
0desirs to eace the beauteous visage Of Nature by
tcking around on Il lot OF nve and ten-cent stone
pdincea, It aint nome Of my funeral - long
gst hand-out myself. CIT up. there. Gehenna.'
says to the burner: and prepare to teeter down
Into the aforesaid vsrdant valley
Halfway down the hill there's another bend in
the trail. And ~ We comes around this stops
short while the burrer does even better-for he
turns back somersault: and then there on the
shovel too frightened to bat eye.
1.-THE ono glimpse has 10 plenty suf1cient. l
stands back to trying to make my convolutions con-
volute.
Before me. meandering saloobriously across the
Diain II the worst looking collection fauna that
ever made merry in Inebriate's Home. 1t was
SURE psychopathic ward. assemblage. and then
some. Four-footed things with wings. and two
Sooted ones without. and birds with hair ON en-
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