Show i 7 9 CUPOLA 0 life in the country we have been ou out in in the country again to pet the calf and the angry little bee gather more honey we left the busy inart mart one morning just at day break when the smells ol 01 0 a great city were shedding their bilious odor on a d dyspeptic air ve a left the city not because we t take it with us but because we didn dian t want it along we are particular about our company when we go where we might feel ashamed af it and we went to the country we wept were born in the country and f adopted the city because the city wouldn t adopt us inasmuch as blood Is thicker than we like god gods s country best that Is why when we e get all gummed up in ane cerebral region we hurry away to the land of sy our nativity the free unbridled coun a 3 try I 1 mot that we have ever han hankered Gred 0 for a farmer farmers s life our divine and a disproportionate central stat cj uary nary that bothers us when we put on t our shoes forbidding but we have often dreamed of being a gentleman farmer armer in our minds mind a eye we ha e h flitted from froin flower to flower on the farm scratching the pigs with a cb feeling new horns sprouting on the T j infantile rams salting the new kit tens haltering the turkey gobbler I 1 f gathering the eggs where the horses have tailed failed to eat them snaring paring coph ers era from post holes teaching the dog s to bite book agents fighting the chinch 1 bugs and the jersey cow out of the wheat field taking skimmed milk to the village bragging about our horses b I 1 and how near lightning came to hit j v ting our barn r up to our recent visit this tills was our r a bileam dream of the farm now wd we know we have ha ve been deceived all farm farmer rs ind of today to day are gentlemen farmers and just as soon as we can find a farmer tool fool enough to swap places with us we are going out into the rural districts ji to eat green corn off the cob and be happy tho the married v we were met in the little tittle country town by the farmer after get getting tini a shave and offering a bill so big neither the barber nor we co ild change it he bought some good ci gars and said he was ready f it was a glorious morning in the air there was no essence of redolent cafeterias caf atenas no ancient alley stench no slop wagon fetor only me sweet aie j cense of 01 meadow and field 1 at the farm home the grass in the f fr front ont yard was clipped with a lawn mower there were a hammock ind nd easy chairs the dinner was a dream the farmer spent the day enjoying himself hired help did the I 1 work there were yet two picnics and a sale to attend that week lie ile went to all three we have always contended that while the farmer feeds us all he usual ly keeps the best for his own larder there is a huge overgrown belief belle in town that a farmer skimps his own table to carry food stuffs to market perish tha th error the farmer has bas fresh I 1 eggs and vegetables the yellow legged chickens cavort about his legs and the apples in his orchard are aa as ruddy hued as the cheeks of his pretty daughters his mall mail 11 la delivered at bis his door he has a telephone and takes forty leven periodicals which he reads before passing them to that bourne t from which newspapers never return his life Is not ideal but it has a leaning learing that way don t pity the farmer save your sympathy for the town slave 35 9 A green cucumber we have been thinking we would write a poem on what a green cucui her does to a man but we ake could only onty think of one line v 4 oh what the green cucumber does to a man Is a plenty 1 ahat was plenty for the man but not enough tor for a poem so we smoked on in silence and decided that what i green cucumber does to a man could i ot be told in verse therefore we began to write in prose after filling fillan seventeen pages with the worst lot ot of stomachaches on record we decided what a green cucumber does to a man is so much that it cannot even be told in prose we then tried crowding it into both prose and poetry but gave it up at last deciding to leave this aign for your perusal if you would world be well served serve your seli 4 after serving yourself you will know all about what a green cucumber does to a man then you may write your own thesis on stomachaches I 1 have had or what the green cucumber did to me ale when I 1 wasn gasn r looking for the best description of a cueua ber her contortion in its active state we will give one pair of brass coffin handles warrants I 1 to fit write arly and avoid crowding 3 5 |