The Coconino sun., 1927-06-10


The most surprised young lady seer
here in some time was a tourist. With
a friend she was sitting in the family
car in front of the Western Union of
flee. The bunch had stayed at the
City camp grounds the night before
Which probably explains what hap
pened when she was sitting in front
of the Western Union office.
The young lady began to scream
Then out on to the sidewalk she
jumped and did an agile and whole
hearted Charleston, with Black Bot
tom variations. Meanwhile she kept
trying; first with one hand and then
the other, to scratch her back in the
exact spot you can almost reach when
you shove your hand over your shoul-
der and can almost reach when you
shove it around behind alongside your
shoulder-blade.
Presently the cause of the terpis-
chorean display climbed out from un-
der her waist on to her shoulder; then
away. Twas chipmunk, which prob
fore and remained hidden until then.
Joe Gaseous of Phoenix met Charlie
Isham of Flagstaff on the banks of
Oak Creek. "Just caught 18 inches
of trout" Joe exulted.
"Good Lord!" Charlie exclaimed.
Let me see it." Joe opened his
creel and showed three six-inchers.
Joe Tissaw is getting so now he
writes poetry, talks poetry and even
dreams poetry. Here's one he un-
blushingly sprung on us the other
night
John called on May in the little par
lor days,
Quite different then from our present
ways;
But even so, two's a company and
three's a crowd
No doubt, so the little Nadia lamp
went out.
Joe says when he was a courtin'
'em the girls used to drop their eyes,
raise their face timidly and murmur,
'sYou will have to ask papa" He says
the daughters of those girls now shout,
"Shove her into high, old kid, the old
mans gaining on u.s."
Ike Veasey says the only real close
Scotchman he ever knew when he sent
his pajamas to the laundry put all
his handkerchiefs in the pockets and
sewed the pockets up so he'd get the
handkerchiefs washed for nothing.
Bucko Sisk had some tourist ladies
out in his car to see the sights. One
of them pointed to the San Francisco
Peaks. "How old are they?" she
asked.
"J-j-just one m-m-million and TT
two years DID, Bucko said.
"But how can you know down to
the exact year," she asked.
"a g-g-geologist t-t-t-told me
t-t-two years ago they were a
m-m-m-million years old then," Bucko
explained.
Flagstaff residents were aware
week or two ago that the wind was
blowing quite healthy. Into the coun-
ty jail during the blow came a tourist.
"Say, does the wind always blow this
way here?" he inquired of Jailer Geo.
Atterbury. well, not always" re-
piled George with a strong desire to
assist the man in getting informa-
ton. Sometimes it stops and blows
the other way"
Sheriff John Parsons says the way
he learned to smoke was one time he
went to the doctor after feeling poorly
for some time and the doctor said:
$50 somewhere and rest for a month
Drink no ikker and take only one
smoke a day."
John says he didn't like that about
the one smoke day, because he was
afraid the first one would make him
pretty sick. 1t did, but by the time
the month was over he liked tobacco
first rate.
State Senator Walter Runke says
a fair decision or punish
ment isn't so impartial as it looks.
When he was youngster he and a
boy chum were kept after school one
night and the teacher commanded
both to write the name of the town
nonnv SAY ya'