Show IT RAINED ELEPHANTS the drummers story topped by the usual quiet man blau in the corner everybody in the kinge gr compartment of the sleeper had told a st story ory except one quiet inoffensive sort of a man I 1 in the corner and the drummer eyed him with suspicion as he finished what he considered to be the corker of the entire combination says the detroit free press As the drummer concluded the quiet man poked his head cautiously bouly 1 out of hi his shell arva and I 1 coughed slightly as men do who have lain dormant awhile and rouse themselves to utterance 1 I remember he said without further preliminary a queer circumstance which happened to me during a summer visit I 1 made some years ago in kansas I 1 am reminded of it by the story our friend here nodding toward the drummer tells of a shower of 0 f fish falling from the sky I 1 can readily believe his story the drummer looked grateful and I 1 hope he will believe mine one afternoon we were sitting out in front of my friends house some three or four of us noticing the peculiar shape color and movements of the clouds when all at once as true as gospel gentlemen an elephant alive and tacking kicking dropped right down in front of us its out of the sky and a more astonished looking brute I 1 never saw the drummer sat spellbound 11 nd and everybody else choked up speechless the quiet man looked around on his auditors fLud itom it is as true as preaching gentlemen he went on and though as a rule in kansas it rain elephants it did on that occasion and is ac accounted c bunted i for or by the fact that a cylone cyclone c had struck a circus twenty miles anale to the west of us and furthermore it was raining lions and tigers and horses and hyenas and monkeys and tent pins for a week afterward the biggest things of course coming down soonest my dear sir gasped the drummer as the quiet man was about to ta continue dont say another word I 1 travel for a liquor house and if you want a barrel of cocktails give me your zid address dress and ill send it to you by the first cyclone that passes our place |