The Coconino sun., 1923-04-20

DANCED if | kin understand say:
Carter Joy, after thinking profound
ly for several minutes, why it is thai
the night falls, but never breaks
while the day breaks, but never falls.
Gus Dillman was out with bunch
of campers one night. Along in the
small hours when they were all asleep
Gus suddenly woke up and sat up.
There was skunk in that immediate
neighborhood. And he sure did smell
like a lot of awfully dead things.
"Mein Gotti" Gus exclaimed "All de
rest ashleep, und I've got to schmell
it ALL"
Buck Thomas says its wonderful
what training can do He washes his
dishes every day and here for several
months hasn't broken a burned dish,
though he can remember the time, Il
can, Buck says, when he couldn't milk
a cow without breakin' its horns.
A fellow who was so dirty he was
distinguished looking dropper into At
torney c. B. Wilson'S office the other
day and asked for financial help. c..
Z. looked him over, then handed him
half a dollar. Here" he said, ego
around to Pi Falder's and take bath.
If you have any change left after you
have paid for it, take another bath. "
When Ted Compton was young
shaver he was deeply interested IN
dime novel when his father, who had
an account to settle with Ted concern
ing some serious infraction of parental
rules, grabbed him by the collar.
aUnhand me, villain,p thundered
Ted, still under the influence of the
story he was reading, "or there will
be bloodshedi"
No. said his father, grimly, mot
bloodshed-woodshed!"
Walter Durham recalls the time he
was foreman of coroner's jury hold
ing an inquest over the body of a man
who had tied his suspenders around
his neck and hung himself. The ver-
diet was: Deceased came to his death
by coming home full and mistaking
himself for his pants.
Judge n. C. Layton tells about
prominent Mormon he knew several
years ago >who was on his deathbed.
The doctor had been upstairs to see
him and as he came down the Nor
mons wife, or one of his wives, asked
how the patient was. She was told
that he would live only a short time.
"Do you think" she asked hesitating
ly, chat it would be proper if / should
sit at his bedside during his last mo-
ments?"
"Yes," replied the doctor, "but I ad-
wise you to hurry. The best places
are already being taken"
They say, or anyhow, Floyd Cope
land does, that Claude knight is both
the lindest-hearted cuss and the most
absent-minded he ever saw. He says
one hot day last summer Claude was
coming into town when he saw dog
living beside the road, almost dead
with the heat. Claude stopped, got /
out, dragged the dog into the shade
of the automobile truck he was driv
ing, and then got in and drove along.
Assistant County Attorney George
r. Lewis says down in Alabama one
Christmas a white woman making the /
rounds to bring some Christmas cheer
to the darkies of the neighborhood, /
came to one shanty and when the man
who lived there stuck his head out the
window bade him Merry Christmas
and asked him what presents he had
got.
"Ah reckon All mus have got a
niger" he said, NAH pants am gone.
Another time, George relates, an
old darkey caught his daughter Man
dy settin' with young buck niger
who had his arm around her waist.
Mandy, tell that niger to take his