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Show Old Home and the New By BID! OUDLEY. - There' a Utile cottage standing stand-ing on a green-clad Western hilt wher the old HalsootuTa roar la In the air. There are blrda' nest In It gable where the swallowa coo and bill, and a pigsty with a porker In his lair. There'a a smell of home-cured bacon ev'ry morn about the place; there' a garden nursing onions In Ita loam. In the kitchen la a mother moth-er with a sweetly wrinkled face. There, I've painted you a picture of my home. X am living in tbe city. In a twelve by twenty flat, where the milkman takes delight In rattling cans, where the ahrleka of auto taunt me, or the yowling of the cat put a that thing wa know a sleep outside my plan. There's the Iceman with hie clatter; there' th garbage fellow, too; there'a the janitor with nothing In hi dome. There are other things that pester oh, I've men-. men-. tinned but a few at this plac that's substituting for my home. rhen 1 get a lot of money t'a the same old threadbare ate 11 I Intend to leave the city cut It out. I shall eek that I rural haven where the graaa 1 green and talf. and the pretty little lit-tle calfletsr frisk about. No. I don't know where I'm going, but I'll surely take the trip. To the busy world I mean to close my ears, but don't wager on my leaving soon Just tske a quiet ip I've been saying thla- for nearly twenty year. |