Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-10-01
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pudgy old fellow over on the British
Isles had better look out for this lean,
lanky individual on this side the big
ditch. Because if there is anybody
under Gods Heaven who is slicker
than a Yankee on a swap, he's yet to
see the light of day. wouldn't ex-
pose myself to one of 'em unless l
was achin' to lose, not only my shirt,
but my whole suit of clothes, and Dor
row a barrel to go home in. He'd
skin the enamel off your teeth.
Way back yonder the two old geez-
ers snapped fights on land and sea.
Uncle Samuel taught Bully boy
trick or two, and these entire United
States show how much boot came to
the high-hatted old sinner. Who'da
thought it? And I don't know any
nation on earth who'd like to match
wits with him, in real honest-to-
goodness exchange, unless an awful
lot of boot were offered.
How-some-ever, the office boy, look
ing over my shoulder, wants me to go
on and tell what the job now on hand
might be.
Now, amt Stain anything as a
downright or upright fact. But I
have heard that there is a possibility
of Sam and Johnny trading Charley
Indy and Ed Windsy-Lindy to go
and Windsy to come.Now, ask you,
in all confidence, who do you think
gets the better Of that deal, or is it
a standoff? Of course, Indy is no
king nor the son of king, nor the
son of the son-but why go on, l
haven't enough paper; but I'll bet a
hoe-cake he knows just as many peo-
pie. And I'll make bet he knows
more about flying than Windsy. A
bout all the flying Wally's man ever
did was over horses head when the
beast attempted jump. They say,
he's a wiz for that.
And speaking of flying-they used
to refer to Indy as the "Lone Eagle"
Looks to me now, since he has ex-
changed the eagle for lion, he'll
have to be dubbed the "Lone Whelp,"
and he'll have to stop flying, because
no one ever heard of a lions flying,
except at your throat. And if Windsy
comes over here, he'll have to drop
that Duke" stuff, and be known as
plain Mister" if he knows what's
good for him. I reckon if they do
change their habitations, it would be
hard to recognize either in about a
year and a half. One would be Eng
lish, We knaw'; the other veritable
Yankee, learning how to swap pocket
knives.
There's just one thing that appears
to stamp the Britisher as having a
little grey matter in the cerebral cav
ity; and that is, among the many ru-
mors of his removal from the country
whose crowned he spurned-all for
love, there is one prevalent which in
Inmates he will take up his abode on
the Eastern Shore. Blest if we won't
make good American out of him here
soner than could be done anywhere
else on the Continent, Mencken ct al
to the contrary, Notwithstanding.
And, you know, don't think Indy
will fly so high over in Hingland. He
wasn't born, you see, with that drawl-
ing accent that belongs to the outfit
of a "jook." doubt whether he can
kiss the hand of lady-in-waiting with
just the proper pressure, and say
"Yaas" and NAV" at the proper time.
And maybe he'll get so homesick he'll
come flying back; then he'll find
Windsy so content with the Sho', he'll
say here and John Bull will find out
just what his Cousin Samuel knows
about tradin'. He'll have both knives,
and with hands in his pockets, go
whistling contentedly, down the cor
ridors of the big house in Washington.
Well, I'm here to tell you, if Indy
does come over and settle among US,
thereIl be a woman in the case, as
there generally is in all big affairs of
this mundane sphere. And Wally, as
Marylander, knows that the Eastern
Shore is the best section of her State,
and the quicker she can put the Chesa-
peake between her and those Western
Shore hoodlums, the better. All we
can say is, that if they-Wally and
Windsy-do choose to arrive, we'll
give hearty welcome. and show them
lust what true Americans look like.