The Washington times., 1923-03-25
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BY LEE SONIERS.
- Id KING COLE
Was merry old soul.
. And merry old soul was
ne:
He called for his pipe and he
called for his bowl,
And he called for the dice that
he'd taught how to roll
mot such j. tough life, said OLD
King Cole,
For q merry old bird was he.
Mother Goose. 1893 model.
RACK IN the early days of the
republic the valiant Confinen-
tails fought for the principle
mo representation no taxation.
Much simpler slogan nowadays
NO income, no tax. "
nR. wHIFFLETREl1, the ~
nous special week originator
has decided strongly against the
Introduction locally Of 8 KNOCK
'en-for-a.L Loop week, even though
the manufacturers Of boxing
gloves have given the idea :
strong Endorsement. Dr. WhiffIe-
rec admits that he isn't any too
sure just how he stands II this
community.
THE HE1RESS MILLIONS
fNoTHING has happened ii
this serial to date, conse-
quentIy there Is no synopsis Of
previous chapters. Edgar PretzeI /
and his cousin Cuthbert. joint au-
thors, are taking short vaca-
ton and have called ii pinch hit
ter. who this week seems to be
Damon Runyon.l
Ny grandpap seems to be read
ing the Morning Chief more than
usual careful this morning. 90
say to him after q while. Grand
pap, you must have been going
to night school again. Here you
are reading this paper at . great
rate more than an hour or 90. :
..Son. says my grandpap, =
am reading in the sassiety
columns about this here heir
ess, Therese Buckingham she
is from Milwaukee and ] knows
her pap well when Milwaukee Is
famous ana am hanging around
there good Bit. Wen, Therese
is d bright little egg as child
and her pap is always telling the
folks how she can recite THE
wreck Of the Hesperus' and
'Kubla Khan.
'.Well, that Is all right for those
that likes It, but am no high
brow. and ! am making 3 good
bit Of change il them days srnllgs.
Cling red-eya to the Indians. over
the border and don't Ike to let
pleasure interfere with my busi-
ness.
'tBut one day when old man
BrosIingham and me is Off on
trip together over The border we
camp on top Of ! high cliff On
4 cold night and there Is no
wood handy for to make q fire
except one lone tree that hangs
out over the chasm. So 7 climbs
out on the tree to trim OF II
few limbs, and just then old
man Broslingham comes BY.
We'll. he is taking along g.
phonograph in his kit bag. and ii
the photograph is lot Of records
by little Therese reciting THE
Wreck of the Hesperus' ana some
what. So he says to me, II am
giving you q grand chance to
hear this now. as you cant claim
you are too busy and I am plant
ing this here where you can
hear it while You are cutting the
firewood.' So he plants the
photograph down on the cliff
and turns it loose.
''But I fool him. I have my
Ratchet and cut off the top Of
the tree where / am sitting and .
down I go into the gulch. am
nearly killed. but not quite, and
think that il much better than
listening to little Therese on the
photograph.
''But old man Buckingham h
never very keen about me after
that, and after all I am not
sure /, am blaming him." = !
THERE'S nothing equals IN
dGstry,
There's nothing quite Ike
a00rk:
There's nothing like ones daily
toll,
Which one should 4eVer shSrks
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