The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-16


CACTUS.
TDear Mac: Well old top and amt va sup
priced to hear from the dead once and again
Somewhere a voice is calling, and even tho
it is little horse with maybe little mule
k1ckin around near, still and all around, maybe
you hear it, and don't it smell suspicious,
tho, just like I'd had bad cold or something
but then it bein bottled up so long would be
apt to make it scent somewhat like a rare, an
Gent vintage, like the grapes of southern
France with a slight accent of altar de goose
berry.
In other words 1 got cold, and believe it.
whisper it TO you in hoary accents the cat
that had Eine eparate and distinct lives wasn't
any more kittenish in the young and foolish
years of any and sundry ner individually and
collectively of its evenly careers than these
here Capricious germins that's been cavortin
around inside a my pharnix and larnix and
epiglottis and bronikal subway; they been
havin' a regular home-comin' and honest if
you could hear EN- shake hands with each
other and playin crack-the- whip i'll all their
old familiar ha'nts it ud make you shimmie
Ike size 10 galosh a size 5 female foot
with the artic breeze playin' Tag, you're it."
But anyhow these here germins wasn't salts
fed to stay in the main hall so they moved en-
masse to the larnix and all We'd with each other
in putin on fancy gymnastc stunts, some
dom the tango, some the highland wringer
and some putin on an anaesthetic roundelay
with tambourines attached and the whole
thing ended up in EN- gettin' into most devil
ish free-for-al Some of em got to scramblin'
and started toboganning down my epiglottis
into the BRONX. and then takin' the elevator
up my windpipe, which worked automatic, and
beR hey b sd down nd and md co9S up again and
this home comm for a week now and no signs
of them gettin' tired and vacatin' and honest
you'd think they'd get tired sometime but they
only get stewed and go at it worse, and RELY
they act like a lot of cuckoos that had got out
OF their regular cuckoo clock and got stewed
and got the hickups along with their cuckooin'
and couldn't find the right fat gettin' back |
home in the darkness at night and each one
a cuckoo there with not room for another |
cuckoo and then goin' to the neck cuckoo and |
sayin "Yoo-hoo, Cuckoo and then that cuckoo |
would cuckoo out from his cuckoo and then
that cuckoo would cuckoo cuckoos on a cuckoo |
tare, so thinks 1, just let EN- be and maybe |
from; the doctor hasn't give up hopes yet but
I've just decided to hold up my hands and |
blow my nose and that's all 1 can do.
Well, Mac, guess you been perspirin' to |
know what was the cause of my long vacancy |
but this here cold weather is too much for nv |
agile brains. va see me and the grounding
both has our ideas about this here arctic |
weather both agreeing on one and the same
identical thing. that bein' that these stormy
Dreezes was little bit strong for our delicate
make-ups, not ! mean that it would
blow OF cur compilations or anything, it going
much deeper than Just the epidernis LAYER
like beauty bein' knee-deep more or less inst
accordin to the way you look at it. but what
mean to express to the general republic is
get my spine replaced after me -gettin' ierked
N sections like bologna round one of these
romantic R. l. corners, they bein' like the
main town of r. I. you never known what's
coming next that might be worse than what
come before and not knowing what minute
"he1 making right or left angle turn Won
night step right onto St Peters toes and get
lifted on to the Celestial Court Ltd, through
service. no stops, diner attached
Wen, Mac, I'd like to keep on writin' to
you and save film off my finger nails, them
rot xy ho1 -
Toud like to take time off to get your breath.
Just wapta say word about this chap
oiogenes which sprung out in the paper last
light. Amt he the sarcastic thing tho no Won
suppose somebody has gone and got hi on The
'uija board and he's come down here to earth
md forgot his lantern and got mixed up with
hat crowd at the Alley Inn?> Too bad. be- :
ause ne used to be such highly respected
hap. Ills dissertation on your diary wouId
ound like he'd had overdose of cold cure {
\ friend OF mine has got a ouija board and
N the wireless and have them send red-can
or Di so as to save his reputation in time.
CACKLES.
CACTUS makes up for negligence when she !
oes get started. We are grateful to her: we ;
wanted to go home early today
ROCK ISLAND. according to the editor ~ j
ne Abingdon t1ll) Kodak is that sodom by \
as VIGOROUSLY rocked since a vile village in +
he slime and mud OF the big stream" v
There are many ways in which a man NAV b
lake an ass of himself but the most effective I
lethod is to do it in print. a
Jim Talked to @YOur Correspondent, Wen r
Bet He Got Good Items ~
bushnell Corr. Galesburg Republican 4
Register.l il
Editor James F. Dertinger was a Ma I,
comb caller Monday forenoon. Dr. BERT r
niger came upon the same train your q
correspondent did. and have no doubt g
but what Jim gathered some GOOD items
on his trip. =
SOMEWHERE we acquired the information
lat legs feminine) are to be worn bare this $
ear. y
81
Well, at least that will avoid wearing ex.
snsive silk stockings threadbare N
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