Connecticut western news., 1914-02-19
The Wurra Wurra Club

when the hour arrived for opening the exercises. IL was wild and stormy night. Around the campfire in the Tuscany hills were seated brigands old and Brigham Young-but that has noth- ing to do with this particular meeting of the Wurra Wurra Club. If it had been different it would have been otherwise. Let us have this thoroughly understood before we go any farther. It was a wild and stormy night, as we remarked be- fore, and good many of those present remained at home. The president, Mir. Judge Whittlesey, was unavoidably de- tained at home by a snow-bank half an acre in extent and six feet high with an upward tendency. In his absence the sexton, MT. Strong, called the meeting to order and announced that he would call upon the late Mir. Howard Stats to preside. Howard modestly accepted the honor and took the chair and the gavel. He ordered Judge Ford to play the Open ing Ode on the handle of feather duster, but the Judge declined on the ground that he couldn't triple-tongue feather duster, and triple-tonguing was his strong weakness. However, he compromised by singing it, which was still worse yet. The moments of the previous meeting were read in unison by Al. Herriman, and then the meeting was ready for bust | ness.
 Ed Warner rose and stood up on his feet-that is, partly on his own feet and partly on Clint Roraback's feet, though he didn't stay that way longer than one sixteenth of a second, for the place whereon he partly stood happened to be likewise occupied by Clint's most care fully petted corn. "Mr. President" said Mir. Warner, II move you, sir, that we do now hear from Mir. Strong, in the matter of the valentines which he was commissioned to write for the individual members at the last meeting"
 Mir. Strong got up to explain. lie said he had started to write the valentines, but found he couldn't get any words to rhyme with Roberts, Collin, Hitchcock. Oehlschlager, Streck, Higgins, Sleighter, Dempsey, and dozer other members, so he gave up the whole thing as a bad job. Judge Ford said the sexton-poet was too easily discouraged, and that he might have rhymed Sleighter with nut meg grater, Oehlschlager with meat auger, Streck with Peck, Collin with pollenA-
 Il s'pose might interrupted Seneca, "but there wouldn't have been any sense in it. I could just as we'll rhyme Ford with Ford, and Hitchcock with Hitch cock, and Dempsey with Dempsey"
 We'll" retorted Ford, "that would have been as sensible as most poetry is, on the average"
 A motion by John s. Reed that the weather mans name be stricken from the honorary list of the Club was unan- imously passed.
 Watson Hardenbergh said he would like to hear from somebody who attend ed the Lincoln memorial concert given by Mrs. Bridgman, last Thursday, in Norfolk. There was long pause at this point, until the fat member, noticing that nobody else seemed disposed to re- port, got up and admitted that he went to the concert. "My wife made me shave and go," said he, in an apologetic sort of way, "an' that's how I come to go. They was only two p'formers, Mir. Harold Bowers an Miss Harrison. Bowers played on the pianny, am Miss Harrison fiddled on tn chellow, which ain't noth- in but big fddle-a kind O stunted bass vile. An say, they could sure make demi-semi-quivers that'd give ye tn chills an fever. Bowers he done things t tn pianny that made all tn keys, black an white, get busy to once, an tn way he chased his fingers down th' bench, playin' shirt-so, firm Chop pin Cthat's what my wife said it was,l would make ye think team O rats was runnin' free-fr-all race firm one end O tn pianny to t'other an back ag'in. Miss Harrison she was jest tn cutest little thing ye ever see, not much taller than her chellow, an how she could make that overgrown fiddle talk to her. It seemed sometimes as if hull rivers O music was bein' transported through furnace pipe, an tin pipe sprung n leak an tn music trickled through an spat- tered all over ye in leetle fine di'mond spray. l was talkin' t Mir. John Cal. houn, O Cornwall, on tn cars, comin' hum firm tn concert. He's a statesman an hoss man t boot. He liked tn chel-