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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER THE HOOP THAT ROLLED UPHILL By DON MARK LEMON by Short Story Pub. Co.) I AVEX'T you ever Investigated It? No, cunt say that lever did. Well, youre a singular sort of man to have a phenomenon like that occurring under your eyes every day, and not investigate It. I dunno, maybe so." "Hasnt any one In these parts ever ' investigated it?" Well, now, since you ask, Pearsons boy right promisin sort of a lad was did kind o lay in wait far jeffhe the pesky hoop one evening longside yonder rock, half way up the hill. When was this? About last May, ef I recklect. And what happened? What did he find out? Well, now, praps he found out something and praps he didnt. Cant say. Cant say Why not 7' Jeff, he never Well you see more that no after pesky hoop spoke came up to where he was waitin' longside o the rock. Jest threw up his hands an came down the hill ahead o the hoop like he was bein chased by some sort o devil or nother, an hid himself away In the'ol straw stack over there. Singular ! Ye-eet was sort o singular. An when me an his father dug him out o the stack, he was plum daft, an he I aint ever spoke since then. But about somethin was et whether dunno the pesky black hoop that did et, or whether he was sort o struck by the Ilghtnin as he got up in front o the rock to git a good look at the hoop, for you see, et was durin a lectrlc storm that Jeff lay in wait up thare on the hill, an me an his father was talkin down here about what a big Ilghtnin hit the rock whare he was waitin, an then Jeff came down the hill In front o the pesky hoop an hid in the ol straw stack. Did any one, after that, attempt to get a close view of the hoop?" y0t that I know of. Pearsons boys trouble haa kind o soared everyUoUy ! s, him, Into a nice, clean hole in the air. The next evening James Moor lay in .wait near the foot of the incline, with a rifle in easy reach, and when the mysterious circle rolled Into range he endeavored to put a bullet into it. But he merely succeeded In killing a calf. The next evening this time being careful not to get In range with the cattle he poured a quantity of buckshot Into the thing as it came bowling down the hillside, to be thoroughly startled by witnessing the hoop leap into itself and disappear some fifty feet distant from Its accustomed destination. Confounded queer I muttered the Must be an apparition after tourist. all. This was on Thursday. On the Saturday following, James Moor witnessed something all alone that he didnt report to his host, for fear that that old gentleman would think his city guest held the truth altogether too lightly. The mysterious black hoop, Instead of appearing some forty feet below the clump of trees at the top of .he slope and bowling down the ihcline, suddenly appeared at the foot of the slope near the river and bowled up the hill, to vanish at that particular locality where it usually appeared. There was something positively unholy in the mysterious circle suddenly appearing and rolling of Itself uphill, and the tourist got It into his head that the country air wasnt doing Ills health any good. Yet he couldnt very well continue his tour until funds came from the city, and to improve his leisure and incidentally disclose his courage to the old farmers pretty up on the daughter, Jessla, he wentfixed in the slope Sunday noon and black hoop a netpath of the uncanny k and gunny-sacting of What a clever thing It would be, he thought, to entrap the apparition and present it, with his compliments, to the pretty Jessia. But that evening the around detour neat a hoop made Incline, the down bowled and netting to vanish as usual near the river be- Daddy's ?dEveiiig r Tale FairyGRAHAM BONNER com6Mi rr trim wnrvam whom POOR PORRIDGE I wish, said the porridge as It waited in the double boiler on the stove, to be put into porridge dishes, that I were Ice cream. Then, said the coffee simmering at one side of the stove, you wouldnt be here of a morning. Maybe not, said the porridge, but I'd be better liked. You see Im substantial and sensible and healthy and wholesome. Now, all those things are very excellent things to be, but they dont exactly excite any one to a high pitch of delight and happiness. I am put on the night before as a general thing, you know, and I cook slowly while I hear what is going on. If there is going to be Ice cream there Is a great deal of excitemnt. Oh, were going to have ice cream,' every one shouts as soon as the news gets about. But they never act that way about me. Im respected but Im not loved. Sometimes they speak of me as Old Oatmeal, or something equally harsh. Oh, Id be so happy If once I could hear some one shout with delight at seeing me and Jump up and down and say : Oh, goody, goody, goody, porridge for breakfast. That would delight me. Well, said the coffee, there Is a great deal of truth In what you say, but we cant all be the gay excitements of life such as Ice cream and cake and those Jolly foods. But we warm people up and make them feel like work. Id rather make them feel like low. play, the porridge pouted. Clearly, the hoop was no common You make a child have the strength of hoop, for either It had intelligence in- to sit all morning in the classroom. Itself, or it was, directed by some Id rather make a child ill with eattelligent power. ing too much of me than always doing Three times thereafter, twice down the hill and once up the hill, the apon parition bowled unmolested. Then, his as the tourist, a Thursday evening, were host, and a couple of farm-hand- s to make the thing for unfunny waiting I Its appearance an immense sow from . I nelKbliorln .'..'iV..V.y. ome V vr tow-strln- g. V.V-T- craps OKe KITCHEN LIFES LITTLE JESTS CABINET Western Newspaper Union.) (, To know what you do know, and 1925, .. not to know what you do not know, Confucius. la true knowledge. Such Is the patriot s boast, whereer he roam His first best country Is ever at home. SOMETHING TO EAT NO TIME TO WASTE A man who was known as a persistent shopper, but a very poor buyer, WASTING HIS TIME When a cornbread is liked, try the entered a meat emporium and intercepted the proprietor. 1 have here, said the shabby eall-sfollowing popular recipe: How much, he asked, are veal St. Charles Bread. a book containing a hundred Beat two eggs lightly, cutlets? secrets. Umsteen cents a pound. add alternately one pint What is the price7 IIow much are pork chops? cents. of buttermilk and one Twenty-fiv- e the Two cents less, responded How sales have you mad many pint of Indian meal, melt butcher, but please dont detain me today? one tablespoonful of butter and add to the mix- unless you mean business, as I have Only three or four. who ture, dissolve a teaspoon- waiting a couple of customers Umph ! If that book contains so small a to want Excnange. talk in secrets as you soda turkey." ful of many money-makin- g and milk of the It dont you take a day does, why say portion off and read It? A Mean Advantage . Brooklyn Eagle. heat hard. Bake in a v said the chairman of dripping Gentlemen, a public banquet,, before I introduce CLUBS ARE HANDY THINGS pan in a hot oven. one Boll Custard Pudding. Lemon the next speaker there will be a one-hal- f over it and milk of pour recess, giving you all a chance pint Cream one to go out and stretch crumbs. bread of your legs." cupful of Who Is the next speaker? inquired tahlespoonful of butter with two two a sugar, add the beaten yolks a oflemon. guest. of rind the and grated Before answering that question 1 eggs gradcrumbs Then add the milk and would rather wait until you come a buttered plate pie into ually. Pour back," was the chairmans reply. and hake for half an hour. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add Call I A Hurry-u- p two tablespoonfuls of sugar and a few My boss says he cant come, after roughly drops of lemon Juice. a Pile But little sugar all, said the plumbers boy. me.1 over the pudding, sift sent p call, he hurry-uover the top and brown lightly in a as it wasI anever for anyone, said sent But moderate oven. .rather house, the of of the mistress He (speaking of women) Now In Celery Salad. 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