The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-03-31
FOR APRIL.

shredded ear.
"We thought" said the beasts
AS they saw him arrive.
You stayed back to face him
And eat him alive
But the man-eater only
Ran faster and whined,
And now and then ventured
A survey behind.
"Well," said the hippo. who ran
as he could, did you eat him alive.
as you boasted you would?" But
the lion limped onward with never
q word-at least anything that the
rest of them heard.
"Tl bet,' said the rhino,
He bit off his head
And left them to find him
All bloody and dead"
Whereat they all laughed,
And the great lion cried
And licked at the gashes
All over his hide.
Il see how 1t happened" the ele-
phant said; "our brother was up in
a tree overhead, and when he pounc-
ed on him a stranger to fear. the
cruel thorns tore him and shredded
hds ear
They all laughed again.
And the Lion, all red
With blood, only shuddered
And limped on ahead.
20, come" they exclaimed
As they followed with haste,
I'VE know that you ate him,
But how did he taste"
The lion turned round at the top
of a rise. and his whiskers. were
matteed with tears from his eyes
Don't taunt me, he begged. and
I'll tell you my woes" And blood
6rtclkled off at the end of his nose.
We'll do it." they answered,
And husky with grief
And fear, he proceeded:
my story is brief.
did lay for Teddy,
Intending my worst.
And / jumped as promised
But he bit me first
The first day of April will be
All Fools Day, and 1t will be cele-
brated much more elaborately this
year than it has been In a long time.
There are more fools than there u.s.
ed to be. They may be divided into
three classes, viz:
Common, or those who think the
cost of living will ever go down
again.
Preferred. or those who thought
prosperity would return right after
the presidential election.
Dam, or those who thought MT.
Rockefeller would have to pay thaI
S29, 500 900 fine.
The rain will patter on the roof
and the colt will buck and dance
the tickled calf will shake his hooi
and jubilanly prance, the robin VIII
arise at morn and chase the festiVe
worm. the schoolboy will wish chick
enpox would spread and end ehe
term. the old fleas will breed other
dleas upon the itching pup, and the
dirt will fly with radishes and let
tuce coming up.
A fresh and sweeter oxygen Will
glorify the days. the sun will Temp.
the flowers with its soft and verhai
rays. the farmer will put in his cori'
the ducks will lay again, the meado~-
lark will wake the morn with ra'rsh'
ing refrain, the native will moui'
all his wool and don his summer
leans. and man will pasteurfze MS
blood with sassafras and greens.
Cheer up. cheer up. It's sumnie1r'iie
Or will be pretty soon
And wonder are the roses that
Shall burgeon into june
The proud peacock will strut aroui'o
And sprout another tall,
The quail will tune his tuba UP
And whistle from a rail,
And we shall scour our hvers OIL
With curly dock and kate.
The revision of the tariff Will
continue without any Of the excioe-
uneut which attended the sessions :"
Congress when Mr.. Roosevelt was
president. Art which was proven
by the last crop of valentines to have
accumulated nothing under protec'
tion will be put upon the free list
A limited qunatity of sugar ana g"
Zee will be admitted from the fnh"p
mines without duty. The idea -
that by extending this privilege -
the people over there who are iirs"
to net their crops, harvested we may