Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1919-09-27
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81 heard a good joke today" said
the Blue Jay.
What was that" asked the Indigo
Bird.
"Oh l must tell It to you. ! must
tell it 10 you" shouted the Blue JAY ID
his shril voice.
"Wen, go ahead aad tell it 10 me;
don't keep repeating that you're go
ing to- Tell me"
II don't have to go ahead and tell
It to you" said the Blue JAY. 81 can
tell it 10 you sitting on branch
~ didn't mean TO go ahead with
your wings or for me to go ahead with
my wings" said the Indigo Bird. Il
meant 10 go ahead with the funny
joke"
L will do so, for I certainly must
tell It to you" said the Blue Jay.
Waste no more time but tell me-"
said the Indigo Bird.
81 heard the other day" said the
Blue Jay, "Of such II funny thing
81 thought it was today that you
heard the joke" Interrupted the Indigo
Bird.
$50 # was" said the Blue Jay, 'but
! think that is good way Of talking
"What way?" asked the Indigo Bird.
"The way | was doing IT, of course"
shricked the Blue Jay. You see when
] first spoke to you | said that | had
heard good joke today. That was to
make you interested in what | had to
say. In other words. il was 10 show
you that my joke was up to date"
"Then why didn't you continue to
say that it was joke you had heard
today?" asked the Indigo Bird.
Because" said the Blue Jay. Il
wanted to appear very natural in tell
ing my joke-youeknow just wave a
wing and say:
Friends, the other day | came
across this That is the way folks
speak. / believe, who speak naturally
and who make others like them. No
airs and graces; that's what l mean"
WELL" said the Indigo Bird. "when
EKeF FesSERs--a nearu1s jose, rsaffysDd
truly.
Yesterday" said the Blue Jay.
"Then tell your story and I'll COM
mence 1t for you. Yesterday"
Yesterday" repeated the Blue Jay,
81 was In a tree and some people were
underneath 1t looking at pictures.
They were very much interested in the
pictures So / looked down, too.
They were pictures of cities and
fields and lots of other things but
mostly of cities.
"Well. they were big pictures with
lots to be seen in them and plenty Of
houses and crooked streets and church
steeples to be found in them.
But the great joke was that one of
the people said to the others:
"-These are all blrd's-eye views Of
the cities
Wasn't that absurd OF course
they didn't say which bird had taken
those pictures. But they imagined
and actually believed that birds had
become photographers. Never have l
heard of anything so absurd"
"Oh. nG" said the Indigo Bird. 81
know the answer to that joke"
You dol" exclaimed the Blue Jay.
''Then tell me the answer"
When people speak Of a bird's-eye
view OF anything they mean the sort
Of view a bird would have They
don't mean when they show those pic
lures that the bird has tak,S the pic
lures himself.
'Oh.no, they don't mean that at ALL"
do they only think q bird has one
eyer asked the Blue Jay.
mo. that 10 just a saying" explained
the Indigo Bird. People who have
been on top Of high buildings, or in air
planes or on great heights have taken
these pictures which seem TO look
down over q great, great distance.
$50 they call them bird's-eye views,
because birds see so much from up
high, and they get such a large num-
Der OF things in their pictures-or In
what they see"
"Oh. no." said the Blue Jay. "WeT,
I'm glad ! met you so you could tell
the answer to the riddle"