The Coconino sun., 1923-01-05

Well say there amt!
Lady in diner saw bunch Of about a
dozen sheep in southern Ohio.
oh, My!" she exclaimed. "Just look
at that immense herd of sheep! They
do things on such big scale in this
far western country!
One little place in southern Indiana
didn't have any depot when we got
there. Farmer who had ordered &
chicken coop from mail order house
the day before thought the depot was
| it and boarded it on his fliver truck
and carried it home.
If it had been our Flagstaff depot
he wouldn't have taken it. He'd have
thought they were trying to work of
a secondhand chicken coop ON him.
Two old ladies been having an aw-
ful argument. One wanted window
opened. The other didn't. Pullman
conductor decided he'd leave it open
while and freeze one, then shut it
and suffocate the other.
Driving across five counties in an
automobile the other day we got stuck
in the mud and had to stay in a farm
house all night. The farmer and his
wife, two children and US. One room
and one bed. After supper they put
the children in the bed. When they
were sound asleep they took them out
and laid them ON the floor in cor
ner. Then they insisted on our taking
the bed. Next morning when we woke
up we found ourselves on the floor
in another corner and the farmer and
his wife were sound asleep IN the bed.
Rotarian Aft, of Lawrence, Kansas,
just married in Baltimore, asked his
bride: Would you mind if went into
the smoking compartment ?"
"What! to smoker" she asked.
"Oh, no." he replied II want to-
experience the agony of being away
from you SO that the joy of my re-
turn will be all the more intensified"
Darkey in strange village saw andI
was smitten by comely yaller gal.
Followed her home. Said to her pap
py: Il loves dat. gal o. yourn. Use
been a bad niger, but I'se done re-
formed"
"Dat's all right" said her pappy. |
'So's she. Her fust three chilluns
was white, but de las one am black.
''Yas," said Willyum Johnsin, rem /
"Yo' cain't nebber be sure
ob anything in dis life. Fifteen min /
ates before I was born my NANNY |
named me Mabel
Gave a colored servant girl at one
of the Virginia homes where we Wis
ted silver dollar. She was profusel
n her thanks. After we left she ask
I'd the lady of the house what it was.
She had never seen one before and
lidn't believe it was money.
In the smoking compartment they
we're playing poker. "Say," one of
he bystanders exclaimed, "that mans
1ealing from the bottom of the decki"
'Well, what of it ?" one of the play
RS asked, cts ms deal, amt it 2"
Big black buck niger, chow come
1ou so" with bootleg ikker, was
standing in a crowd Of other darkies
n a blind tiger telling them all how
,ad he was, how easy, he could lick
he whole bunch and just how he was
soing to do that same, starting right
ioon. The door opened and in stepped
| thin little yellow niger. In less
han minute he had knocked the big
,oaster down three times. The last
ime down the big fellow stayed down.
'sWho is yo?" he asked.
II is who yo' thought yo' was be-
% | come in" was the answer.
SWhat percentage of profit do you
nake?" ] asked Jewish pencil ven
lor in Baltimore. 81 dunno" he said. |
I buy desc pencils for SO cents a
,ross and sells dem for cents apiece
md | know I lose noting"
Saw a man get off the Chesapeake
Bay boat at small Virginia town. He
vas carrying a new, very heavy suit
ase. One of my brothers-in-law
topped up to him, touched him on the
houlder and asked, sternly: What
AVE you got in that grip 2"
The fellow almost tainted. Nothing
'ut Clothes" he exclaimed, and said it
hree or four times.
That's all right" Frank said, grin
ing "Run along with your booze. IL
vas just kidding you"
"My Lord" the man gasped. III
hought you meant it. Come into that
he'd and have drink" 4
Little colored girl in central Mis-
ouri is named Missouri Pacific, after
he railroad that carried us across
hat mulish state. 1t is explained that
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