Show I I Story of tb Day iiii lu I LOBSTERS ON TREES Boasting ln of or lob lobsters a man from Minneapolis who had been spending a few tew days 3 at on one o of the Maine coast coat resorts came to Bangor this week and In con con- with a n friend In a hotel cafe here remarked that he had enjoyed his visit to the tue shore but that he had not found Cound lobsters as plentiful there as he be had expected Lobsters Vh Why that's queer responded the thc Bangor man Why the woods are full of or them so to speak Come down to my place at Hancock Point and antl Ill I'll give you OU your our nil fill of or them Many down there queried the Westerner Many The Bangor man regarded his questioner with surprise replying Why h man lobsters ar are teO so o thick down there that they've got to be a nuisance Have to go out mornings and sweep them off the paths paths- paths even even en climb up on the porch Beastly nuisance when you dont don't c care uc for Cor them y you u know The man from the West looked dazed but promised to accompany the Ban- Ban Korean orean to Hancock Point next da day The Bangor man went to the telegraph office and sent Bent this thin message to his wife at H Hancock Point nU Buy all the lobsters within ten mlle miles and scatter them about the lawn paths and antl p porches Next da day when the joker and his guest arrived at nt the cottage the who whole place had been planted with green breen and squirming crustaceans and the fun tin began began began be be- gan the minute they entered the walk The Bangor man kicked something out of ot othis his path hats that asked the guest Oh that's one of those confounded lobsters was the calm reply A little further on more lobsters wriggled over the walk walk and land and the cottager declared in disgusted tones that it was pretty tough when a a. man couldn't get into his own house without climbing climbing- ov over v r i a a. lot of slimy lobsters The Westerners Westerner's eyes started from their sockets but when he got to the vine covered porch entrance he nearly fainted Two enormous lobsters were clinging b by their claws to the trellis and grabbing one of them th the host remarked be In my bedroom n x ther here this one one- will make a good broil for tor you ou The big lobster was broiled and antl the man from 1 Minneapolis at ate t with ke keen n relish Next ext day he ate others other and when he got back in Bangor he declared solemnly v vI I r never would have believed It had I not seen them with my own eyes eyes eyes- Bangor Me ole Cor New York Press |