The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-06-18
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as and out and The big elm over bv the ienc
70 scemes. o. staad out very plane / va
or sonnet hnc ike lysng down IL nice .aesA
al ba'a after aH awful hot day 0aN =
n coarse seeing TIE moon and the si-cam9u
t. and NC elm. made il Iittsl d'iirent tee
a becaa>e YOU couldn't oi done that II yot
: wcre taxing hata And 4eu couldn't 4
d smeaed he roses The way vou could noN
I either or you couldn OF heard Nr 8arAei
y talking 70 Vour Farther or Your Far'he:
5 taking 10 M. Barker 50 lay there kin.i
d ot listening, and watching. and wondering
c II Farther VAS going g lei ne g to the
I dancing party. when Mr. Barker spoke up
c louder than before
/ OF course you know the Disb4Eh is going
. to boom you for mayer, Mr. Blanchard.
) he said
| could hear Farther kind Of laugh then
Oh, nonsence, he said, I don't believe
: I'm the man for MAYER.
Yes. you are just the man. Mr. Barker
answered, just the man exaekv And
were going to begin on you early enough 80
that by fall people will know for sure who
you are.
Well, how are YOU going to begino Far
ther asked. laughing some more. black head
lines and Photographic
| couldn't help wishing the gipsy lady
could see him now, he seemed to feel so
much more pleasant and like talking.
No, we re going to begin at the beginning.
Mr.. Barker said, and lead up to il gradually.
Begin with my boybood? Farther asked.
We'll, they tell me was a pretty lively kid.
That was kind Of a surprise, too, but If it
was really so | wished he would go on and
tell more about it. But Mr.. Barker took
out his notebook then and asked him where
he was born gs na
The moon was right over the sycamore
now, and wh N l looked at it this time. it
almost made me Jump because the Man in
the Moon was watching ey1ything SO verv
bright and plane. | never really noticed
before how very bright and plane he could
look. Why it seemed as if he was lust
watching evrything as hard as he could "a
watch, and at the same time smiling. lust
watching and smiling, watching and smiling .
II # hadn't been for that praps it wouldn't I
have happened the way it did. But 7 Q
couldn't seem to notice anything else, got /
looking back 50 hard, first at the Man in the v
Moon and then at the stars keeping 50 still I
all round him. = And pretty soon OF course
began to understand why il was they kept $
80 still and never made the least disturbance A
It was because the Man in the Moon was Y
and they knew they couldn't f
50 they just looked like littel Jewels d
parking, and the Man in the Moon looked v
Ike great big jewel smiling, and the clouds
eemed to sale round something like ships. |
)ut without making the least noise or dis al
erbance and evrything up there was in m
ust perfect order, till something happened pl
t will sound strange when tell it, but It III
just the same, and this was it.
he Man in the Moon went out "a dc
And what | am going to tell now will lit
ound strange too, suppose. But it didn't Oh
eem 50 then, it seemed so very natural. FL
ike this.
! looked up at the Man in the Moon TO po
lake sure he WASH t there, and then looked pu
yer at Farther and Mr. Barker and pretty do
ION spoke The Man in the Moon S gone alb
Ut, | said
WHAT Farther asked, turning his head
'und 50 that | could see his face very be
ane in the light. What did you say, Nj
elk? The Man in the Moons gone
II, wa
Yes, | replide to Farther, And I think it Nj
i'll bring trouble
| said that because could see from the Dol
oks Of the stars and clouds there was al all
ady littel disturbance there Farther
cmed to see it, too, Anyway he looked at An
r. Barker and, The Man in the Moons Fa1
ne out, he said And Mr.. Barker was the
ost surprised of all if
Gone OUT he answered, Gone out where? run
awi What caused him to do that? You con
nj mean to say he's gone for good You \
nj mean to say there ism t any Man in the wal
ooni =
Yes, told him, there wasn't any Man in
G Moon II h
Not any Man in the Moon Mr.. Barker und
pit saying, Why its an impersition for v
-h a thing to happen. It's an impersition kno
him 70 do like that without giving the VIII
st notice. T
seemed to be thinking very hard v
d deep. bed
0f course it is, he finely said, And it did
)ws YOU couldn / really trust him, doesn't \
It prooves he wasn't the right man for thai
place, doesn'tit2 But
L certinly does. replide Mr. Barker, quite won
v, turning his head round so that | could | tn
ms lace very plane, too Joe,
Tisn' t evrybody that could fill the place. F
her, Farther said pretty soon. 1t must with
quite heavy work to be the Man in the "
ION. in h,
Quite heavy work, answered Mr. Barker \
guess your the man for IT, too. beer
What Farther hollered, Why you lust beer
me had to be MAYER, /,
knoKv did reufida Mr. parler p,,t -