The Coconino sun., 1921-01-21
THE CoCoNINo SUN

They were planning on some nice sur prise
 That they were going to send To little bear. Yes, dear, on my word.
 "He says the man next door has got 1 His goat in custody; | q think to lend the man his pet is sweet);
 | And he's looking for another beast For his menagerie-
 He's going to get the bull that walks our beat.
 "He keeps searching all about him In his philanthropic way,
 To make the lives of poor dumb crea- lures bright,
 And his latest protege, So it seems I've heard him say, Is helpless little pig that's lost it's sight" HI. A. Albert Dennis, of Addy, Wash, whom many of us very kindly remem- Der from the time when he used to grace our gatherings with his cheer ful presence, wrote Frank Bennett re- gently and sent him the following let ter which had been received by a Can ute, Kans., merchant from a Neosha, kans., farmer, and asked Frank to pass it along to The Sun: Send me a sack of flour, five pounds of cofe and one pound of tee. My wife gave birth to big baby boy last night, also five pounds of corn starch, screwdriver and flytrap. It weighed ten pounds and straw hat" Stranger things than that have hap pened in Kansas, Albert. John Marshall overheard a woman telling some other woman that she was just returning from cremating her third husband. An old maid who also overheard the conversation mournfully remarked:
 Funny, how some women have husbands to burn and can't get any,
 Joe Crawlvrd says the meahest man he ever knew wouldn't let his wife eat anything but soup for fear she would wear out her false teeth. Al Beasley says he does sure enjoy hunting. Get him to tell you about the last time he went bear hunting. He spins it something like this: "l went out hunting with a few friends, and camped out for two weeks. Of course, when a party goes out like that, everyone is supposed to do something. One carries the wood in and another makes the fire; another will do the cooking, etc. But we had one obstacle in our way; we had a negro with us named Pete. He would n't do anything, He was too lazy to get out of his own way. He would do nothing but sleep. He was too lazy to get up and eat his meals; he would eat them in bed. We got tired of this and told him he would have to do something, get move on him some way or we would send him home. We did all the hunting. The hunting was very good. We hunted all day every day and couldn't find anything. Il was all hunt. The more we would hunt, the less we would find, and when we got tired we'd hunt again. would tell you where this place is, but know you would lose too much time hunting for it. After we made oul speech to Pete he surprised us. The next morning he got up bright anG early with his gun and went out hunt. ing. He hadn't been out any nor, than one hour when we heard ter. rible noise in the woods. We looked and there we saw Pete coming through the woods, running with al his might, with a big bear behind hin with his mouth opened. Pete was talk ing twenty-foot steps. He cam, straight to the tent, and, as soon a. he reached it, turned around quick anC shot the bear just as it was coming in. l asked him:
 "Why didn't you shoot the bear ou, there when you first met him? H, said:
 Did you 'spose I was goin' to carr, him in when could run him in?"