Show LAVE CROSS THOUGHT HIMSELF A GREAT SINGER No one knowing Lave Lava Cross could ever evel accuse him of oC being musically In Inclined dined and Lave is always first to ac acknowledge acknowledge acknowledge knowledge this sad deficiency and at times even grows chesty over It H HIt It used to be Laves great delight to kid Monte Cross who by the w wy y is the champion tenor singer of or tn league whenever Monte would essay to toss the notes In the air all when wh n the fellows were all aU In the dressing room Now Monte used to do a whole lot of ot othis his practicing while In the dressing room and so Laves chances for tor kid kidding kidding kidding ding were numerous but the tho man with the legs like a pair of ice tongs never neglected his opportunities in this line One day da after Lave had been shoot shooting shooting ing It Into Monte about abot his warbling that lanky Individual turned to him and said Bald Oh stow your gab youre only sore because you cant sing As far tar as tho the cant sing Dart Tart of your our argument laughingly replied Lave you have me sized up correct correctly ly by I only attempted to sing In real earnest once continued Lave and that was when I was a boy at which time Imet I met with such a reception that I have never tried to sing again aln Tell us about It Lave cried cred Sey Seybold Seybold Seybold bold who stopped chewing gum In or order order order der to listen It was when I was a lad In Cleve Cleveland Cleveland land began Lave and I was attend attending attendIng ing a public school The Tho teacher se selected selected selected another kid and myself to sing In competition for tor some sort of oC prize Well Veil I worked on my m song for sev set several seVeral eral oral weeks until I got It letter per perfect perfect and when the night nl ht rolled around that was to witness my debut I was BO so nervous that I did not know whether er I was coming or gong going Anyway when I got to o the hall where the stunts were to be pulled d off ort the committee which was to decide which of us was the Chauncey Olcott of the town gave me tho the signal to lo start off ort first This I did and I thought I surely was killing things and you may im tm imagine agine my feelings when h n at the conchi conclusion sion sian of ot my warbling efforts the corn com committee said It necessary ne for the theother theother theother other boy to sing They explained e that their Intention was to award the other othe boy the medal This they did Ud con eon concluded eluded Lave LaNe and since that auspicious day I have never again lifted my voice in sweet song |