The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-13

Grapevine Special 60 The world.
a mnliari duc!, flew into the gulf
/ OF Mexico. dropping down on the still
wrIors of lagoon. IL was a hen
mallard. Her tongue lolled out, hor
wings dropped, her eyes were bleary
and she dragged her little toes Ike
tired man drags his feet.
A big fat gray duck swan up and
quacked. The hen mallard answered
and this is their ConversatiOn:
Gray Duck Why so asEcd?
Hen Mallard--You'd be faGged,
too II YOU had been through what
/ have. started from Canada day
before yesterday TO get away. from
those blooming hunters and the
cold wave.
q. D.-But why didn't you rest
on the way down?
II. M.-ReNi Say. you loose
feathcr5d Eadwall, did you ever tly
down the Arkansas river past Tulsa
q. D.--Oncc, but never again
(rapplng her hill on stick
Dlnmcs Old Man Grccnhcad.
II. Nobody told me not to fly
that way. My old man, peace 10 hlH
feathers and bones, was drake
headed and led the way Alons
about where the river turns TO go
NJ. 4
country, the bombnrdmcnt began
You never heard such racket. we
hit the river about peep of day ana
rvcry minute Of flying we got popped
at Those two-lcggcd creatures GER
tainly showered us with lead. II got
worse as we flew south. ana along
about Bnrtlesville they shot at US
every fiftieth flap OF our wings.
q. D.-But where did you divorce
that old man NJ yours? go,
II. M.--Hold your hosses ana III
tell you. hadn't come 10 that yet.
Joe Mcgee and Tom Hartman ehot
/ % times at uA as we flew over i'i,,
! lake. We lodged back to the river
/ and some hunters at the mouth OF
Shell creek cut loose. hen We went
/ east md Glenn Campbell and Uncle
Watt" and some guest they hhd
ernutled their automatics ~ us' we
/ shot into tho air and went over 10
/ charley Pages lake. We heard that
! charley wasn't hunting this fan due
Ito his eycsight. But Charley hhu
/ "Dickey" Jones out. or perhaps u
vyas Frank Long. anyway, they cur
loose at us and we had TO go thirsty
so we flew back 20 the river Eet
ting popped at every few yardH' wv
IRAN into narrHrc OF gunlltr no. ,u
] Of keystone, "N'l' W ''N''
ers. "Curn' Fcrriuo and some o,h'i
nImrods have n blind. we spotted
their blind by the smoke from the.l
stink pipes they carry IN 'H'i'
mouths.
q D-Say / asked you wher'
vou lost OId Man Greenheah, no.
. where didn't you lose him,
II M-Toll you In a minute, pu
II wanted 10 tell you other thnH
first They say ammunition costs "a
least cents "a shot this year 81
IT. that {a thr case each of thoF
Tulsa hunters shot $l5 worth o
shells al ua. I figure that Tor ever
duck they get they have 70 pa
about sg6. counting the gas tires
time. food and ammunition th',
p use up. ,.,,.,
O. D.--I think you are biz higl
. They got every lost one "i our ii','
, but myself and they would nav
4 baggcd me only ] dlved FOR hHhl
lust as they shot and they mereIl
- cut Oft q few Of my tail featheIs
/ l. Doc H0user and his crowd dla ~
al Catoosa clyde Poole ana hlIt
I.atta almost got me, but carr ,et
- off their aixes and red up on bVs
, Martins kafnr corn until eGuiu e!I.i
make il on down 10 salt wafer ,ut
say how did you lose GA man
GreonhoadY .., Astor
passing the Ray i'.fo bhIhF'
ran into the machine guuuerh
again and we went away hish pass