Show IN DEFENSE OF HIS STATE New York Press The man from Michigan sighed in a bored way as he resumed his seat in inthe inthe inthe the hotel lobby after chatting with an acquaintance It makes me tired to hear people try t r to be funny with my native state and the hoary old puns they crack That man I just left wanted to know if it the feminine gen gender gender der del of Michigander was Had that fired at me a thousand times Others want to know if the hucksters huck of the Upper Peninsula raise their truck In Marquette gardens and still others ask if Detroit is called the City of the Straits because theres nothing crooked In It and so on Im getting tired of it and want to announce to the public at large the following facts to wit It make a man feel rocky to live In Flint anybody can get chops In Bad Axe if It Ithe he has the price the young men of Bannister dont have the stares when a pretty gill girl goes by any more than the young men of or any other place Bath in in Clinton county but the funny folks can get one in other coun counties counties counties ties if they need it any time within the next six months other animals than rams and goats live in Butters Buttersville ville cows for instance Coldwater is that in name only drinks are 10 cents cent apiece the town of Dollarville get its name because there are a hun hundred hundred hundred dred scents in it the people of Grind GrindStone GrindStone GrindStone Stone City are no sharper than any others pork is not the only kind of meat eaten in Hamburg Paw Paw is isa isa isa a very ery good town and the only one in inthe inthe inthe the world whose name a baby can pro pronounce pronounce pronounce before it learns to talk if it Reading a man full the temperance tem temperance temperance perance people ought to know it but butI I have never noticed that the men there were particularly full there are plenty of fresh young chaps in Saline of course all lI the inhabitants of Ster Sterling Sterling Sterling ling are fine my best girl lives there What Sure the Tyre jn n San SanIlac Sanilac Ilac llac county is not pneumatic tic I dont know but I guess some of the married couples of Torch Lake are In hot water There are others but this will do for the present and the next time anybody tries to get funny with me Ill IU shove this fist at them and para paralyze paralyze paralyze them all at once |