The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1910-06-10
Little James.
Attesti R. r. BAIL, Clerk.


Concerning the Disaster Just Sus-
tanned by Halley's Comet
They Cuddent "a no Worser thing
Happened to Mister Halley's Commit
N to lose it's Tale which tn Sientis
sez has Occurred in tn last few days.
It's sed 'th they aint nothin but
Happinous in Hevin but 1 bet at
when Mister HALEY looks down from
th' Windurs of Hevin an sees his
famous Commit a Cavortin' around
without it's Narrowtive which has
been it's Cheef Feecher for some
Cenchries he'll be over come with
Greet.
They say at th' Commit is gittin
Moo tale but tale ats Thirty OO0,-
600 miles long can't be erode all at
wunst. It's Crate an what's call
ed a most Unrepairable Loss. Th'
Glory of a Commit is its Tale just as
th' Bible sez; "The Glory of
Woman is her Hare an her Moo
Higeous Peach Basket Hat"
If this here Cattystrope could a
been put off fer few days we'd "a
had better Shown we got now. AS
it is, it's Bum. A Commit without no
Tale aint no Better'n a Star an we
got Briter Stars'n this here Bobtaled
Commit, TO look at every mite in tn
Yeer.
It's just our luck to have exident
to tn Commit happen Rite here in
stead of a few hundread Millyun
miles fuder on.
asst my Pa wat is they goin' to do
about this here Clamity to tn Com
nit an who's to blame fer it. He
sez: "James don't worry yourself
none about no Disaster to th' Com
nit yet. Mebbe it amt sich loss
after all. They's some Sientis' 'at
sez at th' Commits tale was a False
Alarm, Regler Mith an sat it never
had no Tale, so it cuddent a lost
none.
81 don't know whether that Thery IS
correct or not, but if it amt, an th'
Commits Tale was d Genoowine
Article, amt sure 'at it aint got 1t
yet. It's too Early fer me an you to
begin pittying' tn Commit. If it
was Imposcher. it don't deserve no
| Pity an if it amt a Frod I'd most
be Willin' to be 'at its got as much
of tale as it had when Mister Hal
ley Launched it into space.
"We amt got nobody's word fer
tn Curtailin' of tn Commit 'cept tn
Stronomers, wich its up to EN- to do a
Hole Lot of Explainin' about tn Com
nit. They been Gessin' about it for
more'n six months an been Gessin
right mostly. They fxt tn time
fer tn Commit to get its Tale out
of th' Eastern Sky an when it Snode
up in the West an tn Tale was still
a Flirtin' with Venice in tn East, tn
Populis sez to tn Stronomers, "How
about this? Th' Commit can't be in
2 places at wunst. What's your dope
on it?
"a Stronomer and no other Scientis
can't aboard to be without Dope il
| LhC hoA ~ hIohO IL hSiA SClNSS an
when tn Strononers Recovered
from their Sprize they sez: "That''
Easy. Th' Commits jst lost it,
Tale: that's all.
''Isi it goin' back after it? asts tn
Populis.
NO." sez th' Stronomers' "It's IL
a hurry. It'll pick it up the mex
time it comes Round this away. which
will be only 75 yeers or SO.
"When the Stonomers was asst hov
tn Commit come to lose its Tale
they ez: 1T fingered around in th
East too long an when it found, &C
;ordin' to our iggers, 'at it was Do,
in tn West on May tn I9 it started
jff so fast at it jI~t nacherly Jerket
ts Tale off. Otherwise, we'd a wen
through tn Tale on May th' Is &C
cordin' 10 our Specifcashums.'
They aint nobody to Blame bu
tn Commit for th' loss of its Tale
1t wuddent "a never Happened if i
hadn't Loytered along tn way an
then Tride to make up for Los
) Time" LITTLE JAMES.