Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-02-07
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from the
Democrats Pen

Well, Sir, wonders will never stop
eeasing. Some time ago, I publish
ed in the Pocomoke bladder a cut
of a monster which called "Gyas-
eutus." 1t resembled a Dinosaurs
and looked as if it might be feeding
en- tuckahoes along the banks of the
somantic Pocomoke river.
I don't know how many people I
had to ask me what that animal
night be; whether it was seen in
these parts; and whether it was safe
to travel around unarmed if it should
be patrolling this section of the coun-
try. I had one man, you may re-
member, to pick me up on the spell
ing Of the word, "Gyascutus"; he said
there was no IS" in the name. With
cut ever supposing the word could
be freed in dictionary, I went af-
ter it and found it was not only there,
but I had spelled her right, too. If
any you people remember, the def
milton it described the monster as
q four-legged beast with the legs
ON one side the body shorter than
those on the other so the creature
could walk around the side of a
steep mountain and do it's feeding
with great ease and facility.
I don't know but what the men
tai condition of many local residents
might have reached the panic stage
If hadn't told them the darned thing
was a sweet potato raised not three
miles from town and the picture
imply told what tricks photography
can play.
Then along come two kids who
claimed to have come across a 3-foot
alligator, summing itself IN the old
fair grounds, just outside the city
limits. saw the dead exaggerated
wpe of The lizard family, and also
kehrd the somewhat exaggerated
story told by the hunters of big game.
I don't know whether they were con-
sciously buildingup an event in their
ives to hand down to their posterity,
but their account, whether or no, was
q little out Of gear.
How-some-ever, grabbed the af-
fair as a good news item, had pic
lures taken, and, before I could pub
Ish it, the Baltimore papers got hold
of it, and the Eastern Shore, the
boys and the lizard got bang-up
publicity boom.
And, now, last Saturday comes a
long local farmer with an egg that
looked like it might have been laid
by an ostrich, a tabled roc, flamin-
60, sea-turtle lido they lay eggs?)
or some other egg mandatory, and
tries to pull it over on me that it
was laid by pullet. That thing
contained enough meat to make an
omelet sufficiently large to serve a
family of-well, I don't know how
many people.
I certainly would like to see that
specimen of oval nutriment put under
q mechanical hen and Matched out.
I'll bet the bird mother could show
herself as a rival to the Dionne fam
ny. If that shell hasn't the markings
Of quintuplets in it, then there must
De sextuplets-(spelling not guaran-
teed).
But, somehow, I couldn't see much
relation between that egg and that
pullet. Which reminds me of the
English lady who resented the insin-
nation that her people saw the point
Of joke several days after it was
told. She, therefore, made an inten-
sive study of wit and humor, and
abe considered she had arrived at a
point where she was able to recognize
ut once any specimen Of wit or hu-
NOR.
One day, she heard this conundrum:
fHow do you make a Maltese
srcss?" The answer was, "Pull it's
tail" She thought over that for a
long time and then said, "For the life
Of me, I cawn't see the relation be-
tween a Maltese Cross and a pullet's
tall"
And along with the falling of
meteors; the collapsing of chicken
house accompanied by a unaccount-
able roaring; the mobilization of the
Guard boys; the blowing every few
minutes, now, of the fire whistle;
the bowling of dogs; the counting
arias of the felines; the close proxi-
nifty of the last call for taxes; and
the little scoop Of my steamed con-
temporary sending Pocomoke people
eonies of his paper showing pictures