Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28

their junney up the tree befo' they. alls
fus' foot gets in trouble. Nowm, hue
cum they act like that, unless they
got sense? Co'se they got sense, aint
they, lady?"
Lady said-but why bother over
more attractive?
"Yessum, that's 'zactly what I says,
! too, amer oughter know--becawse l
come fun down yander in the country
| whar we has all sorts of envy kind
! chill an fevah wums. an angles, an
! tapes, an medgerin' wums. Law,
| honey, when | was a chile | ulster
| dance juba wen one dem little green
medgerin wums medgered me fuh a
new dress. Yessum. Cattahpills got
as much sense as later bugs, an
you can't say morn that. Wy, you
cant pick out nothin' more sensibler
n later bugs. Them bugs is same
as folks. the way they kin dodge,
an skeat, n jump n hide, wiz envy
hand on de fahm chasin' EN-. An
even when you killem, they don't pear
to know, they's daid. the way they
! temps to keep on chewin'. Evvah
steddy ovah them teency.tiney
gnats-them green ones you see on
rose leabs? Them gnats is so small
you can't hardly see en- wiz young
eyes, but if they gwine along, an you
puts your fingah in front of EN-. they
switches aroun' all of sudden. an
runs tother way. Don't that show
| them gnats got sense? Suttinly they
got sense. EVvah sit on a daid log
in de piney woods, an steddy dem
black ants dat runs outer de rotten
bark? Why, honey, you'd be 'ston-
lShed to see de human ways dem ants
act-thouSh o course they's only toll
| liable longside tumley bugs. Evvah
watch pair of tumley bugs rollin'
a ball up Il hill? An de way dey
knows how to git fun whar de cyart
wheels is a comm? An YOU nevah in
yo' bawn days see anythin' more
sensibler thanna frawg, Why frawgs
isl
There was a wealth of detail that
ended at last with the younger Wom-
an helping the other up a step, and
doing the compliments of the occasion
in the way of tokens, but this is
enough, Horatio. to show that all ma
turallStS do not roam the fields of
literature. One of them lives down
yonder in the country. And what
she knows about ''WumS, snake
walters, wood ants and tumley bugs
would give pointers even to that emf
nent authority who writes books and
DOOhS 10 prove tfldt only man has
sense. For let me tell you, brother,
dear;
There are some things that science
doesn't know
x * x x
a \ ancient man was going along in
the dusk. His body was bent for
ward until his face looked down on
the bricks. and his cane was less than
a yardstick.
AS he hobbled his slow way, he
talked to himself, as lonely people
willard, as woman slipped by, this
is what he was saying, in a quavering
voice:
Let not your heart be troubled. In
my Fathers house there are
many
He was not seeing the bricks. His
eyes were lifted to mansion in the
skies.
THE rain staggered down as if it
was made of something stronger
than water And Boreas reeled
around in it as if he wouldn't go home
until morning-if then.
At one place on the Avenue the
wind caught a mans hat and sent it
wheeling over the asphalt until it
came to an ice-glazed puddle, which
seemed a good place to locate.
The owner of the hat was not
young man. and his best friend would
have to call him potty. but Ben Hur