Evening star., 1921-09-11
AROUND THE CITY

| SO joyously youthful in temperament
as to be entirely happy, say, on
"Wednesday afternoon. if he has a
"dollar-ten'' in his poeket-gets tired
of movies. museums and the like, he
into confabby. touch with any likable
chap, white. black. blue. green or
grizzly-you are expected to know
your Marco Polo. He may come across
his friends on park benches, around
wharves. towpath or highway. any
and everywhere, always Interested in
each adventure he hits and sometimes
helpful in the matter of smokes, eats,
! or maybe the price of a nights lodg-
| ings-and SO liberal in the regard to
years that one experience coaxed him
out of his penknife for mumbleypeg
and another made him venture to
show timid old stranger every won-
der inside the Library of Congress.
only to learn that he had passed his
! century birthday and thought it big
thing to limp as far as the outside.
His little tours with job lot hu-
| manity yield stacks of information,
good. bad, but never Indifferent, see
ing that he enjoys them all, and IL
you can stand for glimpse or two.
here goes.
Wars all over the world. son, but
the trade in loving cups goes on
sometimes you can trust people
and then again you can't, but always
lies" S ''o
Girls put up with their parents,
but they don't want 'em around when
fellows come calm. I gotta little
friend and the minute I step in the
parlor along comes nav an paw
| cheese. I'd as lieve holler all gotta
say out at the front door as far as
my words go, but nobody wants to be
lissened at and made fun OF. MY
little lady has got SO that she meets
me out, just because of the way her
! folks get at us for sayin' this or
doin' that-that's why I'm waitin'
Nicer in the park, anyhow-especially
on band evenin's: Yep. Got the day
fixed and all"
Eyes, sir. I've been following the
| water for nigh onto forty years and
I'm going out of the business with the
firm conviction that oysters have
I sense. You tong a lot of them and
bring them to this wharf and then
to give them a drink. AS long as
there. fs talking or any other noise
those oysters keep their mouths close
shut-their only way of Kidding. Keep
quiet for bit and they slowly begin
to open up and seep in the water,
first word that is spoken. Though
can't say as much for the general
run OF fish. exceptin'. maybe. ellis.
There's somethin' curious about ellis.
You may hook one out Of a muddy
ditch and even il he is no longer than
small size wriggle he will give you
| to understand that he belongs to
deep water folks. Never saw an eel
yet that didn't give me a sense Of
fathoms. I been tied down SO all my
to the ocean. and now don't know as
| care, exceptin' this much: II should
have my choice of happiness after
pass judgement, I shall ask to be al
lowed to sail the seven seas we read
80 much about-and bet. II / do.
| an eel in the deepness where he be-
longs"
There was more, but enough is AL
ways enough.
+ 4 X +
i0MRs. DORSEY ABS: have for
AA warded the music of Lorena.'
which yod so kindly sent to the reader
who asked for it. ~
| Copies were also sent by Miss Jane
Clark and by Col. r. H. M. Both cop-
les have returned to the generous
| owners"
Mrs Ada Ransom Bell: The Crow
Song is = lyric I never heard tell of
in all my born days. unless-un1ess
you mean this epic which was for
warded by q reader in southern Vir-
ginia-name not given:
| Then said the blackbird to the crow,
I'll ten yo1 s;nc Why ,d they sim hate us so S
We've served our trade at pulling UP
corn"
y NANNIE LANCASTER.