The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-30

nothing like that over wise guy like me. l told that farmer where to get off at,
 You're poor sucker" I tells him, "to try and claim this Is a Jersey cow, when everybody here knows we aint in several hun dred miles of Jersey yet"
 That reparty of mine knocked this here silo citizen as cold as the pulley bone of a icicle, and he didn't have no comeback.
 The ducat-taker on our train told the man what owned the cow to take up the matter with the claim agent, and we took off again, headed in the general di- rection of Jersey City. It's a great life if you don't wilt.
 Jerry Gwin had originally in- tended going on this trip, but Jerry talked the matter over with Gene Henry and Paul Taylor. and it was deemed advisable that Jerry not go, and heres how come: Tom Patterson, deputy sheriff, had al 1as4, 7 booked pass age with us ol Taylor told Jerry: Tt m.s.ht give our train a black eye with Tom and Jerry aboard, and the revenuisance of- ficers might search our train for the fluids of fermentation" So Jerry, rather than cause Mir. Tay- Tor any embarrassment, made the supreme sacrifice and stayed at home.
 Over in this here Atlanta. four of the Windy City citizens hl- tered into our car and made themselves at home. Thus far they department has been beyond reproach. but John Altman, who Is along with us. has it all fixed up where he will chuck these boys out the window if they start to spouting any lingo about what & great city Atlanta is. I'm looking for one of these birds to claim that Carpenter was borned in Atlanta in a little while. Everybody has got the lowdown on where Carp was really borned, and that was in Lens. France, and if one of these Atlanta birds springs such a joke we will give him the merry guffaw, and if he don't take it in the proper spirit, I will probably take 1t on myself to knock him so far in the ground they will have to probe for him a week with a steam shovel.
 . The blizzard, which has held the Birmingham district in it's icy ,ix nIo lent in this here Georgia. U. B. Carter of Bessemer probably had the greatest precipitation precipi- tation of all. He wilted down three collars by the time we got to Buford, Ga, and finally he give up in despair and climbed into a upper berth and went to bed. Talk about sweatshops, Turkish baths and the like, but upper berths is got 'em all beat, and J, B. will probably perspire so much before morning that he will be drowned in it, which would probably be horrible death.
 Though this ain't no fraternal outing, we have couple of Odd Fellows on board. They are
  spectively. Maurice and Jake have been looking for odds ever since the train pulled out of the Ham" They believe that Demp is going to knock Carp for a row of mulberry bushes Saturday, but they will bet on Carp if they can get enough odds. But this far the wagering has been slight. the only bet being recorded was one that J. c. Brown of Bessemer made Walter Robinson. J. c. bet case note against six bits that the train wouldn't pull in Jersey City on time. It's a pretty good bet at that, for with the financial depression a feller can't get noth- ing on time these days.
 Bryant Mccormack turned in at ii bells. He would of probably set up and admired the Georgia cornheld scenery a little while longer, but l kept pecking away on the typewriter l got from Co., [ roma, Ala, which seemed to worry him. Then. too, my spell ing Is one typographical error after another, and l kept asking Mir Mccormack how to spell this and that. Of course, l can spell this" and also that but you know what I mean.
 We have with us tonight, ana will have with us even unto the end of the trip, a triumvirate from Brighton, Ala. These three gents is dyed-in-t -the-wool sports and rearing to go. They are Messrs. Dobbs, Edwards and Her ring. Dobbs and Edwards has