Davis County Clipper | 1909-07-30 | Page 3 | Calling down the Boaster

CALLING DOWN THE BOASTER good little story ald told by william dean howells as a rebuke to spread sp read aag lelam it was william doan dean howells owella JI said a chicago editor who first rebuked us americans for our spread elsin elsm for our foolish boasting I 1 see that mr howells has just joined a luena society for the promotion of woman suffrage trust him to bo be in tile the forefront always 1 I once heard mr howells toliver deliver a fourth of july oration in malno the orator preceding him had boasted a good deal mr howells II showed that some borne of the mans boasts were oven even impious Illi pious jie he said that these spread eagle boasters deserved tl tb rebuke that the little child administered to the cackling hen that had just laid an egg the child angered by the hens co continuous n cabic i shook his little linger finger at her and said you fink youre smart but dod made dat egg you nt help but lay it