The Coconino sun., 1923-08-17

to Texas after taking Few thousand
critters to market. There was an
other cowboy with him. The latter
got all ready to spread his bed-roll
on the floor when the Pullman con-
ductor intefposed and tried to tell him
about the way the berths were fixed
and that there was one for him and
he could sleep in it, so didn't need his
bed-roll. The cowboy listened for a
while, mystified, not seeing how there
could be any other kind of bed there.
He was tired and sleepy and at last
told the conductor to go to hell, laid
out his bed, took off his boots and six
gun, put them under his head and
was soon fast asleep in the aisle.
Uncle Tom, more cosmopolitan, re-
gretfully consigned himself to a berth,
according to regulations.
ALI Dickinson says the greatest ex-
ample of quick thinking that he ever
saw in his whole life was the other
dav when he was out walking around
in the country. He saw a frog leap
ing along a path and, right behind, a
good sized house snake. The snake
had almost caught up with the frog,
when the latter saw a stick about a
foot long and grabbed it by the middle
in his mouth. Then. he turned and
faced Mr.. Snake. The latter looked
at the frog a long time, trying to fig
ger out how he could swallow that
frog with the stick in his mouth; then
gave up in disgust and crawled off.
"The most wonderful linguist ever
saw says A. f. Grimmell, "eould
keep silent in four different lang
uages.n
Joe Rickel says some fellers make
SO many good resolutions you'd think
they had contract for paving the
next world.
johnny Kerley says the worstest
break he ever did make was when he
saw q newly married couple off on the
train and gave them some. magazines
with the statement that he hoped they
would help them pass the time away.
Rimmy jim Giddings explained that
the reason certain married couple
get along together SO well is that each
does exactly as she likes.
Martin Moran, who as he grows up
gets more philosophical, says if he
was fairy he'd change everything
to ice-cream and eat it all up and it
wouldn't make him sick because he'd
change himself into an elephant first.
The most optimistic man ]. B. Or
mond ever heard tell of said he had
nothing to complain of because though
his wife threw a whole set of dishes
at his head, one after another, and
broke EN-, she never hit him once.
Jack Spratt and his wife and the
lean and fat meat, the story Of which
most all of you children are familiar
with, have their counterpart in good
many other married couples, says /.
B. Koch, in which one of the parties
thereto is always forgiving and the
other always forgetting.
Got a letter the other day from a
feller what said he didn't mean what
he said in his last letter, and, looking
up the last letter found what he said
in that was that he didn't mean what
he said in the one before.
Jimmie Mitchell has noted by obser-
vation that every reform organization
has as It's object the reformation of
everything except itself and of every
one except its own members.
Herb Asselin recalls as the best ex-
PLANTATION he ever heard that given by
an Irishman who had two black eyes,
skew-wise nose and pair of lips
puffed beyond all reason. When he
was asked what was the matter and
what it was that had hurted him, he
said:
."Faithl Last noight Oh tould Sandy
Donahue phwat Oh thought av him, an
ut appears he thought worse of me-
Little Charlie Dunn looked at his
purse, which had been given him for
q present, disconsolately, noting its
emptiness, and sighed as he said to
his dad: at makes me feel orful to
think of it not havin' a cent in its
stomach y
The saddest quarrel Dur. Mckinney
eyer witnessed was between two dear
young things who had just become en-
gagged and they quarreled about which
loved the other the more and then
they couldn't make up because each
was afraid to give in for fear of Of
Tending the other.
DR.. Frederick Monsen, the famous
author, lecturer, artist and explorer,
who comes to Flagstaff nearly every
summer and who has been spending
the last several weeks here, told a
few friends at Sid Gassman's store
recently how he happened to take to
the lecture field He was with a gov
efnment expedition several years ago
Investigating conditions in Death Val
ley. The army officer in charge went
away and soon the others in the party.
were called elsewhere. The only ones
left were DR.. Monsen and an Indian.
The latter was sent out every few
days with letter, but it eventually was
revealed that instead of taking the
letters out where they could be mailed,
he was going into the hills and killing
time with some of his friends. So for
weeks no word came to the outside
world of the doctor, who was given up