Show REPORTED BY THE GROUCH hors the th original hiram J tells tell of his HI attendance at a country function having lla vIng nothing else elsa to do remarked the old codger 1 I attended a unction function while I 1 was wan over at tor tar the other day the affair was wa held in a dispirited grove giove at the end tit of a road tit in which every time lime ft a horse horae popat popped d do down n his foot the alia dult dast shot up in the air like a skyrocket iky rocket A band wn was playing without the slightest remorse rei norM A statesman tat eBman with a diecy as wrinkled an a a pickle dron ed orth forth redundant without end A sad mad and rid rickety merry go ovoid round and ro round und in if the sound rif nf its own plaintive pee dle deedle dc in it a tipsy payl lion a hoarse permell irr fion vang as to sell in brien brazen fit Ir fiance flance of thi the pure food and drug act what looked alarmingly horned toads fried in axle grease A gentleman in ill a striped tent near by hoarsely stated that thai lie he preferred to eat snakes at ten cents cent por per serpent er there was wa tile tha usual balloon tal loon aich perfectly willing to do anything but go up scattered around through fth the festal scene scena were a few old soldiers it a of 0 f f farni a r ni eia e i 0 also a iso g r u n i blin g sundry e u n dr Y h on e a t voton v 0 t ers lik e w i s e g r um b i in g and various other folks folka nothing about hon Is 1 worth mention tri 9 except that they ihry too were ere grumbling it may have beon a reunion a fair a rally a picnic or whatnot what not but whatever they chanced to call it twits an excellent example of onn one of 0 our most cherished kaneas kana alt city star |