Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1910-02-04

The robin so red = i 8
Were to cover them up
From the foot to the head -
With leaves of the wood &C.. ~
And to sing when they could, ss s.
Poor babes in the forest, :, I );
Now will they be good?". e
But look far and wide q
Never forest was spied, : II #SS
Nor any place left So r.
Where the babes might have died. -
For the forests of yore -.
They would never see more,
And they heartily wished
They had saved three or four. y
Which occasioned halt, -. :
And with verbal assault i,
They openly said -.
It was Ballinger's fault !.
So they cursed him some more, ..
And they bitterly swore, 49,.
And the babes we're put back,
Just as good as before.
| But that's enough of Ballinger or for
him or forninst; the ground hog will
awake again upon the I'd inst. He'll
pinch himself a time or two, roll ov-
er on his bed, engage in calisthenics
till he'sure he isn't dead, recall the
dady's significance with never-failing
humor, and come out to compare his
girth with that of the consumer.
And side by side before his, hole
these two will reminisce, and each
will tell the other what his weight, if
any, is. They'll feel of one another's
ribs, tell stories, laugh and prattle,
jump up and down to see whose bones
viii make the drier rattle, and then,
with standing back to back and no
small bit Of JUNCTION they'll ascertain
If they can throw shadow in con-
| junction.
, The which the country will await
, with trembling and misgiving, for if
they can, well have to think of how
to keep on living another 80 days and
nights, frostbit and tempest-shaken,
and paying an admission fee to see a
piece of bacon.
But let us all be treasured
And have the heart to sing:
We don't believe dozen such
Gould hope to show thing;
| Or forty Of. them half andh alf :
In solid phalanx there,
! Unless they counted One-two-three
And filled themselves with air.
| Our Mr.. Taft should be ashamed to
be sa fat and sleek with everything
SO high we can't eat meat but once
a week. He ought to be too big q
man in other ways than his to keep so
buxom when he sees how thin the
country is. A sympathetic president
in such time of test would ask for
north but to take. pot luck with all the
rest. He'd eat his hard and simple
crust, his prunes and batter cake, and
join the country in the stand we've
taken as to steak. It does seem like
hard-heartedness>a for one in such a
place to feed himself on terrapin and
set us such pace. He ought to live
on hominy and grow SO thin and gaunt
that anyone with seeing him would
think he was in want. 1t would be.
come him very well to say, II live on
rice" and prove when he wrapped his
coat around his body twice. We'd all
stand up and honor him, alike with
us bereft, and cheer him with what
little strength the most of us have
left. Fl :s = ;z,s, .s:ss 4. / :, :-5. ~
st. Valentine will open up !: =
s$ea His moving picture show 7f:....
And run a. nickelodeon S.e.
zss5ss For seven days or. more. IT,.
For seven days or so. s. $5.:5 "a,
He'll show us Algernon the Dude,
And Little Wit the Ounce,
And bore us terribly again
With those unwilling stunts. 7.
/ And maybe. this time we shall rise, s
As we should do, ~ gum, II { !: !:
And put this whole internal brand
OF hunnor on the bum !:
never did know what It meant,
lif anything at Al, or who Il was that
Started A, or why we had to fail FOR
Ishch Al custom. OF We think the way
lfhat we behave must make the good
tat alentine turn oyer ID his grace.
II 10 9 shame to break his sleep,
which else were quite serene, and