The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-06-27

, pocket and handing it to his colleague
said, mail this for me when you get
out, will your"
A fond parent noticed his youngest
boy, in very animated conference
with a number of other boys and a
young woman and that evening in
quired of the boy what all the excite
ment was about. "That was my teach
err" said the boy, land we were try
ing TO explain the ball game to her.
She couldn't understand a burned
thing. | just don't understand how
she ever got to be school teacher"
Once gentleman who had married
his cook was giving a dinner party,
and between the courses the good
lady sat with her hands pread on The
table cloth Suddenly the buzz of
conversation ceased, and in the silence
that followed a young man on the
right of his hostess said pleasantly:
awful pause" eyes, they may be-"
said the old-time cook, with height
ened color, "and yours would be like
them if you had done half my work"
"Good morning, children" said the
arithmetic teacher. "How many of
you have prepared an original prob
lem in multiplication, as requested?'
Only one hand went up. "Well, Will
liam, you may give your problem and
the rest of the class may solve it,
"If my baby sister is year old now
and weighs 20 pounds, and keeps on
gaining two ounces a day until she is
Is years old, and if the price of living
doubles again in the next ten years, :
how much will my sisters graduation
outfit cost? Mother says she would
like to know"
Did you ever take note of the num-
Der of cid roosters who hang around
the postoffice lobby every evening and :
waiting for the distribution
Of the mails? Their fidelity to the
task and their regularity on duty is :
as touching and as enfexible as that
If the lovelorn maid who is waiting
'or a new declaration of the same old
story as was in the last letter. They
ire the dads of boys who have "gone
o the war away" They'll tell you
hey "just came to see if letter
anne, because the boys mother is get
ing anxious" There's nothing to that
tory-they are as anxious as the
mother is.
Old Bill Misgivens has a son in the
ANY, He received a letter from him
he other day and after perusing it
,e are convinced that Young Bill is
S apt at spinning yarns as is the old
IAN. He writes: Haven't fshei
luch since | left the states, but what
shing | have done has been exciting
reatest sport | ever had was catch
ig flying fish out of the air The fly
II fish is a game fish, too-he'll take
S much chances as one of the esca-
rifle fellows. | remember one day,
hen the wind was blowing hot from
lie southwest and everybody was feet l
Ig kinder lazy. The captain was
sleep abaft the gunwales and me and
lie mate and the cook were laying
.ound on the deck half asleep. All
once school of those flying fish
,gan to leap out of the water and
Y over the boat, just like flock of
lid geese. SILVER my timbers, says
e mate, I'd like to have a mess of
ose fiers for supper, but | left my
tie air rifle at home. That's the way
ey usually bring 'em down, with an
+ rifle and BIB cartridge, and, be-
we me, that's some sport, too. Then
of sudden | got an idea. | had
ught one of those little toy beetles
a Japanese store in San Francisco
r a watch charm-the kind, you
low, that you wind up with a key
ID they walk across the floor and
p their wings. Thinks l. there's
me bait for the flying fsh-theyll
after anything that flies. So
mt down to the captains cabin and
t his jointed rod-he always took
e along for fishing when he struck
id-and rugged it up with short
e, wound up my beetle and hung it
the end of the line. Well, dad, ynu
ght to've seen those flying fish come
.er that bug. They fought with one
other to get to it. The first one
lght must have weighed about three
unds and we had to cut him open to
! the bug out of him-he had just
allowed it down with one big gulp.
en- two of them got to fighting over
and dropped right down on the
k. 1t was the greatest days sport =
.ver had in my life. Sometimes ]
uld let them take the bug, run my ?
i out and pull 'em in from the chs
ter. That was just to vary the 'he
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