The Coconino sun., 1925-03-20
Al 4bot the Inland Sea and
Conglomeration Of Other Things

| nope you, dear reader, do not think
that / am not thinking of pork or
some such fruit in the same breath !
with this statement.
At this sacred island of Miyajima
we met no friends except those we
! took with us from the big boat. We
were given to understand by our. high /
priced school teacher, who is paid by
the management, to give us local
color and a few sidelights as to the
local citizens, that the people on this
sacred hump, were not as we'll adj
vanced as on the other islands we hadl
visited
J Somebody has lied to him or he was
! kidding u.s. The folks hibernating on
this sacred island must have been i'm +
proved hull lot since he got his last
batch of information from there. They I
welcomed US with large smiles. Don't I
know whether the way some Of us
looked, made 'em laugh or-what they +
intended to do to US plutocrats. They /
were plumb wise to the fact that us /
highly mulched U. S.ains were doing
our last lap in Japland and all the /
Japanese yens we had left in our con-
tainers were not going to be of much I
use to us, consequently they proceeded |
to garner 'en for a batch of nick 7
nacks you could buy cheaper in any
other port in the world.
Just to show my dexterity and |
natural inclination to keep from get I
ting rich, bought monkey wood I
cane. When | wear it feel and look /
very much like the wood the cane is /
mutilated out of. | won't tell what | /
paid for it, because our joy-garroters,
when they noticed me mincing I
around behind tree trying to make 7
myself used to it and swing it out I
elegant like, said all in chorus: "Oh, I
hell, you paid too much for it." II
hadn't even mentioned the price to .
them as yet. But, they knew right I
away it was "too much--See what / I
got for half that number of yens."
Darn that Bengler, Walker, Hem
mingway gang of. JOY thieves anyhow. +
| have got so now that | double the I
sum | pay for things when talking
to them and get fall out of 'emi
when they start lying back at me. |.
Some of our lady shoppers are not
wise to this outfit yet and are con, +
tinually being begged down with sor-
row when they are soennly advised
by this bunch of bandits how badly
cheated they We're and as how they
should take along some experienced
shopper with them Can't YOU mag
inc how awful pleasant such sug-
gestion would make a supervise lady
feel2 Aw, yes you cant
Huh, few hundred thousand more
'or less amt nothing among US, that
lis to say, vocabularily This. really
is wonderful mental vacation for US.
Also, wonderful vocal contest. !
often wake up at night and find that
/ have been laughing at ourselves be-
cause of the vast amount of collversa-
ton we have saved during the day
But as to this sacred island of Il
Miyajilna. (I am getting so | can
spell the place now without looking
it up in the guide. book oyer three
times. It is pronounced as, it isl
spelled, but different people use their
own individual dialect in intoning it,
probably according to their BradStreet X
rating). Honest, / don't know
whether Barnun (P. I. has ever beenlI
down this way or not, but some one
who was well read up on his memoirs,
has been, because we ran across q 4
sacred horse here all fenced in with
a slat fence so you could see it and
pay FIVE sens to buy fancy food for
it. 1t was a flea-bitten, piebald nom
descript broncho, and honestly he was
a cribber at that He had eaten about
half of the front end Of his manger
like our unsacred and disliked horses
that 'crib" do You know what a
''cribber" isa horse that hooks his
upper set of teeth down onto ethe
mahger and pulls down. A dyspeptic
brute, you know, that gets fed up toe.
much on ozone.
About everything is sacred on this
island, and the governor of the place,
who came over the evening before to
get square and tell US about the
place, didn't lay down on his job in
explaining how greatly it was forti-
fled as well as how sacred the old
home town was. He spoke through an
interpreter. The interpreter seemed
to understand all the governor said.
Aside from all this island is noted
for, is big wooden tori, in red,
set out in the sea, knee deep in water
when the tide is in and down about
the ankles when the ocean is untide
This is one of the gateways used to
indicate you are approaching a tenn