Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-12-08

Thought to steal another one,
But when. with bacon 40 cents,
He thought upon the consequence.
And what he probably would get,
In case he landed in the net
The lawyers he would have to hire
To save him from the butchers ire,
The money Cudahay would spend
To push it to the bitter end,
The mrciless concern of Swift
To see he was not set adrift,
The sum that Armour, if he fed,
Would offer for him live or dead,
And how the unforgiving lust
For vengeance would move the
trust
To make example of him lest
Some other piper's son protest
Against pork chops at thirty fiat,
And picked pigs fet selling at
Six-bits a dozen, souse bit,
And sausage even close to it,
When Tom considered it, in brief,
And also how much more a thief,
He would be this time than before,
He wisely passed the butchers
door,
Rejoicing that self had stood the
test,
And went on hoping for the best.
December is from the Latin deem,
meaning ten. 1t was originally the
tenth month Of the year. but owing
to the widespread unpreparedness
along from time to time, until it oc-
ours as far back as we have been
able to get it. Caesar. who was in
the habit Of making each of his sol
diers some kind Of a present, even
suggested pushing it further along
still and having about fifteen months
in the year. but the Roman merchants
protested that il was impossible to
sell holiday goods except in very
cold weather, and Brutus, Cassius
and several ether Roman business
men finally stabbed him.
The custom of giving presents was
originated by the Greeks, AMI they
had such a faculty for getting the
better if it when they exchanged
presents with anyone that the ex-
preston Beware of the Greeks bear
ing qiftsl" became historic. Il was
on Christmas day when all the Greeks
We're showing what they had gotten
and were laughing about it that Di-
ogcnes, who made practice of crit
icising the national faults in some
amusing way, set out on his famous
search for an honest man. The PEI
slams one time resorted to arms in
an effort to get their presents back
but they were badly defeated at the
battle of Marathon, and no serious
attempt to get presents back has
ever been made from that time 70
this.
The colt will burrow in the stack
and the festive colt viii arch hi:
back and gambol at a fearful rat,
to make his ichor circulate. The beai
will slumber in his bead and dream
that Roosevelt is dead, and the Win
ter night will worry through will
the wolf ki-yi- ing down the fue.
The wind will push against thu
door. and our old friend Boreas vii
roar and fiji the Winter night an
fell with samples of his college yell
The price Of eggs win feel imbued +
beat the mark for altitude, and but
ter will cavort around about tw
miles above the ground
o happy man that has his hol
stocked up against the Winters col
and has no urgent need to reel
how many storms may sweep hi
deck. Who has his scuppers bulgin
lzraut and all the things ship-shap
in and out. and all the products 6
his cline right at the PORTFOLIOS a
the time
o happy day that fixed our pic
upon this land and babe us site
our newborn colors in the groun
and claim the country lying round
And cheers, moreover, one, two. thre
for freedoms aborigine, who did NJ
prove so awful stout but what we a
could throw him Quit
1t is the place and no mistake, fl
raising provender to bake, and givir
freely of the least essential to
Christmas feast. A bug or so is c
the job. and the weather frequent
plays hob, but on the whole and
the sum we're dog-gone happy tn
we come.
On the 21st of December the 81
will cross the Tropic of Capricor