Show Clura of Strays rt be It V Tae iliaD Ui tt be e im lID Cradlebaugh MacPherson A AN A N important branch of college college college col- col lege education is the root Why they call cheering rooting is beyond us Why not barking Kay Laurell's gowns have been seized for nonpayment of duty II at New York There were times when this would have been im im- possible y f Daily Thought The future f husband will have to tell I about the kind of bread his f ff I f mother used to buy ff f f f fI I f f J 1 F 1 f f 3 f f J Wonder Wander more duck hunters I dont don't get shot considering the powerful ammunition they take along s Sf At a bu busy bury y Intersection When from every direction Come a lot of pretty chickens with Their Thin Silk Silk I I Hose O f And when every passing fell fellow fellow w- w Young or ancient green or mellow- mellow Stops in front of speeding autos as The Wet Wind Blows When they're heeding not the wagons Nor the peevish traffic dragons When they stop but do not listen Merely Look Like Fools Fools Fools- Then I 1 realize the reason Why it Is in rainy season Mighty difficulty enforcing All The Traffic I Rules r Phil sex There Is some I lse excuse for a man being against military military military mili mili- tary training If he lives next to a high school cadet who plays pl ys a trumpet It rained mined last night I went to bed early early about about 10 o'clock to o'clock-to to rest my tired brain brain Bob Bob my Cradlebaugh-my my crime contempo- contempo is is looking over my shoulder shoulder- he ic says as follows follows It It Cant Can't be Bob DobI Bob Dob- Which Done Done Which is of But Ive I've got a good alibi alibi alibi-a a Severe I Cold Cold and and pretend I dont don't hear him So So I dont don't have to think up any Cutting Answers to his Smart Re Re- marks Well Well Well-I I went to bed bed and and Just lay I there thinking about nothing nothing Roose Roose Roosevelt velt and Hughes and Fairbanks and so Forth Forth and and the rain pattered pattered pattered-it it always patters patters patters-doesn't doesn't It on it-on on the I roof roof roof-or or maybe you call it top top top-o top top-ot of an automobile that was Just outside my i window window And And it sounded familiar familiar familiar-as as asIf I If Id I'd heard something like ike that be be- fore Then I remembered It sounded Just like the rain used to sound on our our roof when I was a Kid back b ck In Inthe Inthe the Middle West when West when I slept In the 1 attic room of a two story and a half house house I I used to lay there and wonder wonder wonder won won- der where the rain came from from and and I wh where whre re it went went and and whether the rain barrel would be full in the morning and Have Wiggle-tails Wiggle in it and it-and and 1 If the ditch would have enough water so I could sail my boats Thinking those things reminded me of mother and my dad and kid brother but brother but especially Dad for Dad for when it rained rained and and you couldn't get getto getto to Cincinnati on account of the Mud I Dad Dad would sit on the front porch and smoke Viciously and say at FreQuent Frequent Frequent Fre Fre- quent Intervals Damn the Rain But Mother would Just tend to her knitting and make the shiny needles fly and click and smile at us once in a while Mother always smiled or looked serious serious Daw Daw always frowned or grinned Thinking of tile the Old Folks made me feel queer queer and and I guess gueS the rain must have blown into the window window for for my pillow got sorta aorta wet And then I thought about the High Cost of Living and how that Owing to the Price of Women's Winter Boots and the Fact that I am a Married Married Married Mar Mar- ried Man Man Man-l I am on my feet again again again- There being holes in my shoes shoes and and andI I remembered that Rain is Wet and that I have no Overshoes because my dog Who dog Who is a cunning little animal animal- likes rubber so well Rain always makes me Blue Blue Blue- And Damp |