The Coconino sun., 1925-01-09

At least 27S Santa Clauses will get
their whiskers singed by candles,
charge accounts will increase horribly
and on the 23rd of the month about
ninety-nine out of every hundred will
hop out to do their early Christmas
shopping. On the Goth every store
will be Exchange Place" and on the
9th the ladies will be studying styles
in spring hats.
But-after all-the year will be a
happy one. to you, not in proportion
to what you make, but what you make
it.
John D. Benedict, writing from
Muskogee, Okla, where he is in the
real estate business, in a letter in
which he says every once in while
his mind wanders back to the days of
'98 "and our company of tree herders
in Arizona" encloses the following
which he says was received by for
est ranger:
Kind & Respected Cir:
| see in the papers that a man by
the name Of J. S. was
atacted and ct up by bear whose
cubs he was trying to git when the
she bare came up and stopped him by
eatin him up in the mountains neal
your town. What want to know is
did it kill him or was he only part
ct up and he from this place and all
about the bare. | don't know but what
he was distant husband of mine. My
first husband was of that name and
supposed he was killed in the war,
but the name of the man the bare ct
up being the same i thought it might
be him after all and ought to know
if he wasn't killed in the war or by
the bare, for have been married
twice since and their ought to be di-
vorce papers got out by him or me il
the bare did not eat him all up. If il
is him you viii know it by him having
toes on the left foot He also sings
base & has spread eagle tattoad on
his front chest and a anker on his
right arm which you will know him il
the bare did not eat up these parts OF
him. If alive don't tell him that an
married to j W for he
never liked J.. Mebbe you hae
better let on as if am dead but fine
out all you can about him without his
| knowing anything what it is for That
is if the bare did not eat him all up
! If it did don't see as if you can dc
anything and you needn't take any
more trouble. Ny regards to youl
| family and please ancer back
| p. S.-Was the bare killed. Also was
he married again and did he leave
/. any property worth me laying claim
| to?
| Some of these days We'll swell al
up as we point with pride to having
been the first to publish the verses OF
great American poet. Well intro.
duce him now, with the request that
you keep your eye on him. He is
| Kenneth Judd, of Fredonia, this coun.
! ty, and he writes:
Dear Sun: / am just young boy
but / like to write poems. Here are
two | am sending you for youl
criticism; if they are all right anr
good poems, put them in the paper
Yours truly, Kenneth judd
| Here are the poems, and We'll leave
it to you if they are not all right anf
good ones. We think they are un-
usually good for young boy.
SCHOOL AND THE SWIMMIN'
HOLE
School, school, nothing but school,
! Tuesday, Wednesday and other days
| like it fine, but the swimmin' hole
Is best in hundred ways.
1t makes feller feel good clean
4 through
As he takes his handsome strokes,
! And I've often said, and heard said
too,
"We1l have no more school jokes
The old swimmin' hole is not very
deep,
Not very wide nor long;
But when we enter the old swimmin
hole
Our hearts are filled with song.
THE WEARY WAY OF THE
COWBOY