The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-05-19
ECHOES e.
BY HENRY MN2
RLONE sN
NEWSY NEWS u
and FICTION



Festival. OF course that much was
enough to kill any ordinary fellow
but I'm not ordinary, I'm extraord-
nary. I've got mind like the sew
enth speaker In r. II. s. Free Dis
cussion contest Well, as l said be-
fore, l had real for sure night
mare and I even dreamt was in
the US annual skating contest.
saw the asphalt pavement fly
up and hit lot of fellows-some-
times it would grind it (the asphalt
of course) into sawdust.
Everything l dreamed about was
awful, even myself, dreamt | was
making a garden on the schedule.
1t was down on the corner of Fourth
and Main, right in front of Egge-
meyers. / ran out of seed so I
planted some nuts and bolts. after
a little while I sprinkled them over,
with gasoline and behold out sprout-
ed lot of little Fords.
Everything was growing fine, I
was speculating-this being war
time-that I'd teach the corn how
to shoot and how I'd teach the
squash vines to run. when I noticed
down at the other end of my gar
den that green elephant and
rhinocerous was doing the cake
walk on my lettuce bed. run down
and yelled to them, "Hey, wotchu-
doin?"
They dipped and turned and
straightway said. "We're dawncing
the Spillway slide"
The yellow rhinocerous turned to(
the green elephant and said. willie
! don't like the looks of that man.
he may be a preacher"
The green elephant turned to the
yellow Ehinocerous and said, "Oh Il
fawncy he won't hurt us, Cecilia, he
looks gentle"
was almost mad with their CON-
duct so screamed "Get off my
lettuce bed. you naughty things"
Then Willie said, Cecilia, do you
hear? He says this is bed. let us
sleep"
And right there on top of my let
tuce bed they both went to sleep
and snored-land sakes. wish
you'd heard them, 1t sounded like|
Garfield orchestra on rainy night.
was beside myself, first want
ed to call Doc Smith then I thought
of Buck Wenger but l didn't want
to scare the poor things to death SO
thought of. some body nice and
gentle like a mouse or water
snake-little Wilfred Jessup.
So. Wilfred and I went down to
the lettuce bed and tried to wake up
Cecilia and Willie-donN you know
they both just said, 'T'll be down in
minute, mother" The very idea,
calling two of us mother.
So Wilfred said, Jll fix en-,
He stopped down and took a great
big bite out of Willie's ear.
ooh! OH" said Willie Don't do
that I'll get off your old bed it
hasn't got single spring in it, any
way"
Il know that" said I, 1--WE haven't
any springs, but there's a river
three blocks below here"
So both the yellow rhinocerous
and the green elephant jumped up
and scampered down towards the
river, and was so joyful that +
Jumped clear out of my bed-and-I
Well, that was the end of my
beautiful dream.
When the brides are singin!
An the bees er buzzin roun',
And the petals from the fruit trees
Are GOVERN the groun'.
Then fellow wants to fish
Jis to lay out ere and fish
An listen to the water
As it comes by with a swish
Jus to sit out ere and pull 'em in
And string 'em on you're holders
And then say back in thet sun
While bugs leap cross you're
shoulders
Well, the winter don't affect yo'
Nor the prices of yer grub
When yer out there on the river
bank
A-pullin' in a club.
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