| Show The Baffled Car Stove Cleveland Plain Dealer I was the hottest car stove in the Consolidated bunch I had a damper that looked like a fiery eye a door that resembled a hideous mouth and its bulging bulg-ing abdomen was redhot Tho passengers who stood near it retreated in terror and those who wore on the front seat thoughtfully thought-fully arose and went back and thankfully stood ars up ad swung themselves on the overhead straps I Then the man who had been at the Dutch lunch came aboard and seeing the front seat empty pushed forward and took i And the other passengers smiled and nudged one another But the man on the front seat was I game He looked nt the stove fixedly for a moment loc he unloosened his muf Her and breathed hard The man on tho front seat had been dining well He had added Roquefort to dining Brie and mingled his caviare with a nibble of llmburger A plate of sauerkraut sauer-kraut vas in the mixup and a herring I or ov in rancid oil filled in the Interstices Inter-stices whIle over all was laid a onion salad and a garlic dressing When the man breathed hard and the stove caught the redolence it shuddered The damper flew round the door lost a hinge When the man breathed hard from the stove and again a leg dropped frm a1 the ripe red radiance faded from its central cen-tral zone The man loosened up his overcoat andO for the third and-O generously exhaled his I tropical breath There was a jangling of bolts and I metal of Isinglass and sheetiron of zinc i 9Ja nickel plate and then r a final still paroxysm tho stove trembled and all was I stillThe fro was out The deadly car stove had succumbed to I tho still moro deadly Dutch lunch |
