The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1922-06-06
: BOB HESS Tells
Of JERRY, HIS
TRAINED R0BbIN
West High Street Barber
Claims To Have Bird
Taught To Catch
Fishbait
Former Head OF Ananias
Club Tells The Story
Advent Of Fishing Season
Brings To Mind Perform
ance OF Pet Bird

barber by necessity, and as truthful
as any man can be who charges 80
cents for haircut and keeps his
face straight while he maintains that
he's losing money by doing it for
that, isis well, Bob's out again.
Hess has been keeping pretty quiet
ever since John Ralston came up
from Howard and deposed him as
president of the Mt. Vernon chapter
of the Ananias club as a result of a
liars fest catch.as-catch-can and Mar.
quis of Pillsbury's rules-the red
headed tombstone salesman flooring
Bob by telling about his hothouse
grasshoppers. which Cor whom) took
the collie and died from ration of
green grass after they had been fed
all winter on baled hay and cracked
corn.
But for the last few weeks-in fact
ever since weather conditions began
to indicate the possibility of there
being reasonable fishing weather Just
around the corner-Bob's been acting
quserly, muttering to himself, voic-
ing queer incantations (more or less
unintelligible) in which four pound
ers, soft shells, night hoppers, twenty
pound test lines and back lashes
were mentioned, and today he "boil.
ed over"
The crisis came just as evils" Nc
Gala (himself pretty good liar)
dented Bob's chair to receive his
semiannual haircut and shave. Bob
wields might lather brush and he
set to work industriously with far
away look in his eyes.
Been fishin' yet, Wils?" sezze as
he deposited COB of lather on the
tip of Macs classic nose. "Wump,"
said Wills, frothing a quantity of mis-
placed lather out of the southwes,
corner of his mouth
The answer was apparently salts.
factory, for Bob waved hot towel
around his head. dropped it getnly on
the victims manly bosom and absent
mindedly stropped his index finger
while the razor reposed ON the case
beside him.
"Jever hear about my new system
for catching night crawlers? No:
Well boy, any time you want bunch
of crawlers to go fishing you just
come down to my house and I'll have
Jerry catch you mess.
Jerry? Why Jerry's a pet robin
Last summer he fell out of a nest be
fore he could fly, and l kept him in
the kitchen where it was warm
made him a nest in strawberry bas
ket and fed him bread crumbs ant
occasionally got worm for him un
til he grew to complete robinhood
mer and was just as tame as cat.
"Well, Jerry went south last fall
hut he was about the first robin bacl
=, this spring. and when we had tina
heavy snow early in March, Jerr!
showed up at our back door jus
about frozen.
"sthis razor pull any? Well, TIL
minute we let him in he hiked righ
over by the stove and commenced t.
look for his strawberry basket. Skin
kinda rough, wills, better have Ii
tie massage with our special plaste
O. Paris and blue vitrol cream. Wei
the basket wasn't there, but in mil
ute saw what the dern bird was lool
ing for, so l went and got the baskt
for him and gave him some brea
crumbs.
"Well, Jerry stayed around til
house then and showed up regula
for meals-got so he'd peck on tn
back door when he wanted In. Don
squirm that way: that little nick c
your ear didn't hurt any.
"Well, last Sun er-I mean tt
other day, was going to go fishir
and | took the spade out In the ga
den to see If could get some worm
and Jerry went along and sat on IL
edge of the bait can, terribly inte
ested in the proceedings. The fir
worm l found put in the can, al
-Jerry pulled 1t out and ate 1t.
shooed him away pretty mad like al
he went and sat on the clothes lin
keeping pretty we'll out of my reac
"That little snip still bleeding?
little styptic will stop 1t. Well. abo
the third worm caught Jerry
the idea / wanted them for mys