Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-10-04
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alRD's-EYE VIEW.


the Blue Jay.
what was that?" asked the Indigo
Bird.
"oh, must tell it to you, must
tell 1t to you" shouted the Blue Jay in
his shrill voice.
'Well, go ahead AID tell it to me;
don't keep repeating that you're go
ing to. Tell me-"
Il don't have to go ahead and tell
it to you" said the Blue Jay. II can
tell it to you sitting on branch
II didn't mean to go ahead with
your wings or for me to go ahead with
my WINGS" said the Indigo Bird. 81
meant to go ahead with the funny
joke"
II 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.
IL heard the other day." said the
Blue Jay, 'of such funny thing"
81 thought it was today that you
heard the joke" Interrupted the Indigo
Bird.
$50 it was" said the Blue Jay, "but
l think that is a good way of talking"
"What way" asked the Indigo Bird.
''The way was doing it, Of course, "
shrleked the Blue Jay. you see when
l first spoke to you said that had
heard a good joke today. That was to
make you interested in what had to
say. In other words, it was to 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-you know, just wave
wing and say:
Friends, the other day l came
across this That is the way folks
speak, I believe, who speak naturally
and who make others like them. No
airs and graces; that's what mean"
"Well," said the Indigo Bird, when
did you really hear the joke, really and
truly"
Yesterday" said the Blue Jay.
"Then tell your story and I'll COM
mence it for you. Yesterday
yesterday" repeated the Blue jay,
II was in a tree and some people were
underneath it 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 ali bird'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
heard Of anything so absurd"
"Oh, no." said the Indigo Bird. 81
know the answer to that joke"
"You do" exclaimed the Blue Jay
''Then tell me the answer"
when people speak Of blrd's-eye
view Of anything they mean the sort
Of a view a bird would have. They
don't mean when they show those pic
lures that the bird has takCS the pic
lures himself.
"Oh, no. they don't mean that at all.
''Do they only think a bird has one
eyeF asked the Blue Jay.
''NO, that is 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 takeT
these pictures which seem to lOoh
down over great, great distance.
$50 they call them bird's-eye views
because birds see so much from NJ
high, and they get such a large mum
Der Of things In their pictures-or ii
what they see"
"Oh, no." said the Blue Jay. "Wen
I'm glad met you SO you could tel
the answer to the riddle"