Show NEW TERRORS OF RURAL LIFE Grumpy used to thinkthat the finest thing In the world was to dress like n tramp neglect to shave and dig around upon a farm that he oWns not far from the city said Smith with a reminiscent grin He was out there one day Insl summer on a vacation and he Invited me to pay him a visit I accepted and hardly arrived when I was asked to put on a pair of overalls and help him hoc a Held of cabbage that was near the IIOUHC I declined with thanks but told him not to let me Interfere with hs labors so he seized a hoeand started In while 1 selected a shady spot where I could smoke and watch him swing his hoe He had only been at work a few minutes A hen a couple of wojnen drove along the country road and slopped where he wan at work O look exclaimed pno there Is the man with the hoc How romantic A brother to the oV quoted the second secondWho Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw murmured thp Urst Whose vas the hand thai slanted back this brow nald the second Whose breath blew out the light withIn his brain continues the Urst There js no shape more terrible than this cried the second With the emptiness of ages In his face exclaimed the Urst That was the last straw With a grunt of rage Grumply threw down the hoe and lied to time house while I was careful to have my laugh out before I faced him He came back to the city with me and I understand that the farm is on the market his agent having hav-ing orders to accept the first offer received re-ceived Detroit Free Press |