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Show A Running Broad Jump. "Ono day," related Denny to his friend Jerry, "when 01 had wandered too far Inland on me shore leave 01 suddenly found thot thern was n gront big hnythen, tin feet tall, chrsln' mo . wld a knlfo as long as yer ar-rm. OI took to' mo heels an' for 50 miles nloug 'j tho road we had It nip nn' tuck. Thin 01 turned Into tho woods nn' we run for one hundred nn' twlnty miles more, wld him gnlnln' on mo steadily, owlu' to his knowledge of the countliry. Flntilly, Just ns OI could feel his hot breath biirnln' on tho back of mo neck, A wo enme to n big lake. Wld ono groat Q( , leap Ot landed safo on the opposite Bhoro, leavln' mo pursuer confounded , nnd Impotent wld rage." "Faith an' thot was no great Jump." commented Jerry, "consldeiln' tho runnln' Btnrt yo had." Everybody's Magazine. I |