The Coconino sun., 1922-10-27
CHEERFUL CHIRPS
 Cy "DEL.) Mostly nonsense in those intervals when real idea along and is grabbed off.
(By "DEL.")

Carl Mayhew says judging from the way Californians talk about the state, they won't enjoy it bit when they get to heaven.
 Carter Joy says he's feeling real well, but he allus feels bad when he feels well, cause he knows he's goin ter feel worse afterwards.
 Judge Layton says he knew man whose wife sued him for divorce and claimed that among other indignities he had heaped upon her he hadn't spoken to her for three years. The judge presiding in the case asked the man if that was true. He said it was. The judge asked him why he hadn't spoken to her in three years.
 Simply" replied the husband, "be- cause l didn't want to interrupt her." ,"
 Teacher asked one of the little chaps at Brannen school last week if he could take his overcoat off. He said he could. Well" said the teacher, "a bear has a warm overcoat, too. Could he take it off"
 The youngster thought a while. Then he said: "No, he couldn't, cause no one but God knows where the but tons are."
 Doc MacMullen says some people think genius is inspiration, but it's a dinged sight more likely to be perspir- ation.
 A friend of ours whose name it is best not to tell said he and his old lady had a red hot argument the other night. Finally, as is most allus the case in connubial controversies, he got tired of talking and went off to sleep. In the middle of the night he woke up and she was still telling him what she thought of him, his ances- tors and everything else concerned with him, as is usually the case in connubial controversies. Say" he asked, "are you talkin' agin or yet ?" After that he didn't get no more sleep.
 A tourist spoke of the good looks of a Flagstaff girl who happened to be passing by. w
 "Yep," said Rimmy Jim Giddings, "Ive known her all hen life. Her fathers a great friend of mine."
 "She's as beautiful as Hebe," said the tourist.
 He'll" snorted Jim. "He be home lier'n a mangy coyote. It's her moth CT she takes after"
 Sid Gassman's thinking of having a big red apple painted on the front of his store for a sign. Sid asks "lf it hadn't been for an apple where would the clothing business be today?"
 Colored woman took a pair of stockings back to Penney's to eX- change.
 "Didnt they come up to your ex- pectations?" asked Horace Nay.
 "My Ian, no! Dey didn't even come to nah knees," she answered.
 Jim Tillman and Frank Hanley were looking at sample election bal lot and Jim said: "T don't want to vote for either of the men for this office. 1 don't know either of them"
 "I don't want to vote for them either" said Frank. q know both of them"
 Al Kinsey a few days ago bought horse and a few days later met the man he bought him of and complained that he hadn't got fair deal, for the horse was stone blind.
 "Why," said Art, q turned him out in the field and he run into into the fence, then he stumbled over a big rock and then he run right plum into a tree.''
 "Aw, go long," said the other, "that horse ain't blind. He just don't give a damn"
 Speaking of Indian superstitions, Carl Steckel, proprietor of the Sand water trading post, out on the Maya jo reservation, and his brother, liar " Steckel, now of Osage, Okla, but formerly on the reservation, who were visitors at The Sun office the other day, told of some of their ob- servations along that line.
 Harry recalled a much anticipated horse race that was declared off be- cause an owl flew over the crowd gathered for the race. That remind ed Carl of a time when he and sev- eral Indians had camped for the night. It was pretty cold and they had just got ready to sleep when an owl start ed hooting. An old chief insisted the owl was saying, ip Navajo, Not here,
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