The Coconino sun., 1922-12-29

Ferd didn't love this particular .neighbor, and he hated that dog. He reasoned that it wasn't up to him to feed that dog his lunch every day and so, the fourth day, carried a revolver with him, The dog met him as usual. Ferd took careful aim with both hands and fired. ,
 q never hit, that dog at all," he said. But Tle tell you what I did do. l shot the end right off one finger of my left hand"
 Down here Christmas lasts eight days-December 25 to January 1, in elusive.
 In New Orleans, Atlanta, Baltimore, Richmond and Washington we were scared all the time we were on the street with the idea we might get our traffic signals mixed and run into Ian automobile and maybe get arrested flor getting in the way. Down here at Norfolk, where I'm writing this, we nave to keep one eye cooked aloft all the time for fear one of these cussed Iaviators may drop something on us.
 Oysters so cents a hushel, sweet po- tatoes 40 cents a bushel f. O. b. Vir- ginia. But collars and cigars cost more in the eastern cities than in Flagstaff. So why worry?
 Plumbing must cost a lot here, be- cause every time you get room with bath it costs from $2 to $3 more than a room without one. This Saturday night stunt is sure expensive.
 Came up from the wharf here in two-horse vehicle. Had no small change, so handed the driver a $1O bill. He looked at it, then at the horses, then at me. (Which horse do you want?" he asked.
 Down here, chilluns, 9 horse is ."team," two horses are 1.-two teams" A horse and buggy are "a team and fix"
 And when I nonchalantly said it cost 1.-two bits,' no one knew what l meant.
 In Charlottesville, while l attended Rotary in the evening, two nejces showed Mrs. Del around the city. The younger stcered a straight course for bank building, and when they got there she took them into the elevator. Top floor," she told the elevator man. When they reached the top, GOurth) floor, she told him: "Now you may take us down again.
 Outside the building she explained that this was the only elevator in Charlottesville, and she always enter tained her friends by giving them a ride in it.
 Oh, you Arizona cowboys, if you only realized what heroes, what gigan- tie figures of mystery and romance you are in the minds of the eastern small boy. My two dozen nephews back here all asked about you, first thing. They don't want to hear about any old Indians when there's anything l can think of to tell them about you. They love you. One nephew, 13 years old, astonished me by coming down the first evening dressed in boots, sheep-skin chaps, sombrero and even the COlOred handkerchief around his neck. And siX-shooters in his belt. You are the golden fleece, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow to these boys. No wonder you strut around so naughty in your hiCh-heeled boots. Some inkling that you are the idol of hundreds of thousands of boys must have seepcd through the ether to you. Strut! Gosh darn you! I'd rather be like you, and have their rev erent love than to be president of these United States
 Please whisper to the Flagstaff h. dies that the edict that skirts must be worn to the floor this winter is be- ing unanimously disobeyed. They're all wearing them from eight to eigh- teen inches above.
 Aunt Henrietta, colored, says as Adam mus never been a baby, Cause they was no one to nuss him.
 Note that the modish eastern man dresses very quietly. l had just re- marked to Mrs. Del that 1 dressed that way-and then l lost my collar button.
 A sign in a Newport News habcr- dasher's says that brown-haired men should wear brown clothes, grey-hair- ed men grey clothes. etc.
 But what, with their old bald heads, will Paul Coffin and Alex Johnston wear?
 My little ncice had just been given an apple. "Divide it with your little 'riend," said her mother. "How shall
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