The Coconino sun., 1923-02-16

| DdCk " QuSL dS
Don't blame the poor feller, he
can't help it," remarked ALI Dickin-
son of well-known Flagstaff man
who always waves his arms a lot
when he talks. "He can't help it. It's
birthmark."
"A what ?" we asked.
"a birthmark," said ALI. Ellis
mother was scared by a windmill"
WITH OUR LOCAL POETS
An urchin who lived in Butte,
Vivaciously ate of green frutte,
The doctor was phoned;
The little boy moaned,
His bread-basket pains were acute.
C. M. ARCHER.
| A little boy down in Natchez,
Sat upon powder and matcheZ,
For the seat of war
| He bankers no more,
| Though reinforced we'll with patchez.
FORREST w. AVER.
A dashing young soldier named Itsky,
BY Japanese bullet was hitsky,
| He said, "I'll not fight,
| don't think it's right,
But instead will git up and gitsky."
HERB BABBITT.
There once was a corpulent carp,
Who wanted to play on a harp,
| But to his chagrin,
| So short was his fin
That he couldn't reach up to C sharp.
LICE BAKER.
Whenever she looks down the aisle,
She gives me beautiful snaisle,
And of all of her heaux
am certain she sheaux
She likes me the best all the whaisle.
HOMER BARTLETT.
| This English language has some in
tricacies admits E. H. Schultz, head
of the Normal training school. F'r'n-
stance:
A sleeper is one who sleeps. A
sleeper is that in which the sleeper
sleeps. A sleeper is that on which
the sleeper runs while the sleeper
sleeps. Therefore, while the sleeper
sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper car
ries the sleeper over the sleeper un-
der the sleeper until the sleeper
which carries the sleeper jumps the
sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the
sleeper on the sleeper by striking the
sleeper on the sleeper, and there is no
longer any sleeper sleeping in the
sleeper on the sleeper
In New Orleans recently, in one of
nn foIc hoa aI.A 1lI loI
testing to the bell-boy who had ta-
room: II amt a goin' to pay my good
money for any little coop like this.
If you think that jest because am
from the country"
But the bell-hop interrupted. "Get
in, num-" he said. This amt yer
room. This is the elevator"
Judge" Miller says they had a
colored preacher here last summer
that sure could pray. "Why," says
Judge" "dat man asked de good 7
Lord fo' things that odder preachers
that had been here before dat didn't |
even know he had"
AL Beasley says the unkindest
thing that was ever said to him was /
in the early days here shortly after
Al landed in Flagstaff and when he
was working in the woods. He was
helping persuade a cross-cut saw
through first one pine tree and then
another and along toward the end of
the first day was about all it. Sud-
denly the man on the other end of
the saw Strengthened up and said:
young man, don't mind yer ridin'
on this yere saw, but If it's jest the
same to you l wish you'd keep yer
feet off the ground"
It is said of one of our old-timers
who in the early days was something
of holy terror that he walked into
Sandy Donahue's place and announc-
ed that he was as tough as they ever
were made and it would take at least
three men to handle him.
"Oh, WE'LL" he remarked as he arose
a moment later and painfully busted
his clothes, of course if you are short
handed ! s'pose one kin do it on a
pinch"
OUR FOOLISH DICTIONARY
Artist. A long-haired, short-suited
individual with positive pose and
uncertain income Otter shy on meal