The Coconino sun., 1923-04-06

Here's a good one that's got to be
anonymous because we can't for the
/ life of US remember who handed it in
i last week:
A hen is not supposed to have
/ Much common sense or tact.
! Yet every time she lays an egg,
She cackles forth the fact.
A rooster hasn't got lot
+ Of intellect to show,
But none the less most roosters have
Enough good sense to crow.
The mule, the most despised of beasts,
Has persistent way
OF letting folks know he's around,
s BY his insistent bray.
The busy little bees they buzz,
Bulls below and cows moo,
The watchdogs bark, the ganders
quack,
The doves and pigeons coo,
The peacock spreads his tail and
squawks,
Pigs squeal and robins sing,
And even serpents know enough
20 hiss before they sting.
But man, the greatest masterpiece
That nature could devise,
Will often stop and hesitate
Before he'll advertise.
A farmer walked into Rabbits, ac-
companied by his wife and ten chill
dren, and said to Walter (Swede)
Carlson, II want to git the hull lot
of 'em fitted up in shoes" After two
hours of hard work, Walt succeeded in
getting each one fitted, and was be-
ginning to make out the bill. "Oh,
don't bother about that" said the far
.ner. "I didn't want to buy the soes.
/ Just want to get the sizes SOS | could
order 'em from Sears, Roebuck."
Ed Whipple says it's hard to please
all people, like the woman who didn't
like it bit when the doctor told her
+ her sick husband was going to get
we'll "Puts me in devil of a hole, "
she said. "Here l gone an sold all
his clos to pay his funeral expenses"
Jimmie Mitchell was kickin' the 9TH
er day bout the way some darn fools
knock the labor market all to pieces.
Saw where over in Los Angeles,
'cordin' to the papers, Dickens Works
i ten days for only So.
/ Don Chisholm. Fritz Schuerman and
several other fellows was working the
roundup and it got coldern' the dick
ems long toward night After they
/ eat supper it was worser'n ever. Don
/ was purity tired an soon's he'd eat,
trun himself under wagon an went
to sleep. Fritz come over after a
while, poked Don, an said:
Kinder chilly, amt it,"
"Uh-huh," Don murmured.
"Ain't yer afraid yer'll freezer"
! "'Tis cold, amt it? Say, Fritz,
jes' throw another wagon on, will
yuh ?"
Little Mary Yaeger was standing
beside her father looking into a mir
ror "Say, papa" she suddenly ask
ed, "Did God make you?"
eyes"
"Well, did he make me, too?"
eyes"
"He's doing lot better work late
/ ly, isn't he?" she asked.
Tom Hamilton says when he hit
/ this town thirty or forty years ago
| he didn't have red cent, and he's
held his own ever since, no matter
! how hard times has been.
Our Spittainica Velocipede:
/ Brain. The top floor apartment in
the human block, known as the era
mum, and kept by the Sarah sisters
Sarah Brum and Sarah Belum-as-
sisted by Medulla Obloganta. All three
are nervous and are always confined
to their cells. The brain is done in
gray and white, and furnished with
/ light and heat, hot or cold water (if
des;red), with regular connections to
the outside world by way of the spi-
nal circuit. Usually occupied by the
/ Intellect Bros.-Thoughts and Ideas
as an Intelligence Office, but some
times sub-let to Jag, Hangover &
/ Co.
| Brand. Something carried on the
hip, by either beast or man. Can be
I found on the outside of a short, red
steer, or the inside of long, black
bottle.
Carter Joy says that's no use raw
| ing over these here big animals and
thinkin' they're something SO much.