Show THEY HAVE NO UPPER TEETH Queer Thing About Sheep Is a Fact but Hard to Prove Washington ashington Star StarA St r rA A pair of ot powerfully pO stubborn men friends of old standing met on Labor Day Da They The came together in a restaurant restaurant rant bazaar at a table In an alcove and touched the he button summoning the Gan m e quite often and amI talked things over most amicably until the th subject of sheep came up tip One of these stubborn men had put in a part of oC his on a farm somewhere up in Maryland and he learned a lot Jot of things up there ther thereabout thereabout about farm critters and such like that thai hed never known before And so 80 when he met his old friend he left like air Ing some of his information when the th conversation In the alcove alcoe lagged a bit Say Sa he said to his friend at hat stage of It 11 its queer qUler thing about sheep It 7 queer about sheep shep asked the other Found it out up at that old farm fare where I was stopping said the man with the newfound facts about farm animals Sheep got any up ur upper upper per teeth at all The other man gazed at the narra narrator narrator tor toe of this peculiar fact with amaze amazement amazement amazement ment and then incredulity and then disgust Aw come off ort he growled gr after the thelong thElong thelong long pause Sheep got any upper teeth Aw Fact though said aid tile tte man on the farm f rm Nary an upper tooth In the head of any an sheep gina hin us the theother theother other Dont try to tell me such rot Cant tell me such tommyrot as that I know kno different said the man who claimed to know kno from observation Aw bet nothing growled the In Incredulous Incredulous credulous one Might as well wen try to bet me the sun never shone How the tIlt dickens ud sheep chew their grub II they t have any upper tee Sall SahI right stuck out the other Ive got it on you OU there all right They any an and all there Is about it IL They chewed and and mun munched munched munched ched In such fashion for about half haIt ar au hour and they the called over half a doz dozen dozen en friends of theirs who dropped i ll ii at atthe atthe atthe the bar to put that teeth teet ques question ues tion to them and some of the th friends held that sheep sheen have t teeth eth and others that they did and a whole lot lotof lotof of rounds of drinks were bought while the thing was being argued over Oer and the proprietor of the he looked happy happyS hap hapS S only one way vay ay of getting this thing fixed up finally fina IY announced the theman theman theman man who believe in the no teeth statement and hats to eo go o somewhere and find some sheep and look em ern over Ill never believe it till tin you rou show me all This suggestion was perfectly agree gree agreeable able aole to the stubborn man who had made madeth the th statement So they went out of the booze plant and hailed halted a cab and made the rounds of half a dozen butchers slants lants But It being a holiday all of these institutions institutions institutions were closed up and they got ot no action on their tbell investigation They were pretty well veil pickled by this time for they stopped at a lost of oJ places tha plants along the route Well Veil said the incredulous one when It was seen een that they the be able to corral any an sheep In Wash Washington WashIngton Washington ington well have hae to go some ulace nace where there are sheep all Im rm there said the man who had lad on the farm and they the went to tile Pennsylvania station and got there just in time to make a local trains tr ins for points in Virginia lnla From that time on the story becomes somewhat hazy with the tellers of It They The poked their heads out of the window at every cery stop top of oi the train It seems and Inquired of f people on the platforms if there were any heep around there that would be bc willing to open their mouths and show whether they the had any teeth or not but they appear to get any an satisfactory replies to these questions that they the could remember They The got off the train after about two hours at a little tank station and found out from the station keeper keeDer that there a sheep ep within fourteen miles mUes of oC the station and they had to fight tiles flits and mosquitoes and go without a drink for six hours before they get a train back to Washington and they the got back bak here after midnight ht af after after after ter all of the places they knew about were closed and they had to crawl soiled and weary and dusty and anti mis miserable miserable erable into a street car and slink off to their homes to take the lecturing of their on ac account account account count of the upper teeth of sheep heep when as a simple matter of fact as Mrs Harris Hartis would say Sl they aint no such thing BS p upper r te teeth th af at after atter after ter all aU au |