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Show j Uncle Walt Dlt Po.t Phl1oi9Sf EXCELSIOR. The sroeer said. "! have some good and satisfying breakfast food." I viewed with scorn and said: "Tut. tut! Tour breakfast food Is nothing but excelsior: Men had more senee when 1 wss young. I said, when f had oiled my tongue; "they Hved on breed and wholesome meat, and never asked themselves to eat excelsior. Their grists they carried to the mill and had them ground snd paid the bill: and thev were men of brawn and pith: thev never filled their atom, a. Us with excelsior Then men got value for their scads; they res red up healthy ilrls and lads: but now we feed them, day bv day. on shredded thistles, toasted Imv. ext elsior. We toddle to the mill no more: we buv kids fodder at the store the stufT put up bv health food cranky: -they rsrry In their little tanka excelsior. excel-sior. We're gulltv of these measly crimes, and then we talk of stringent times, and at the county fsrm we die because, like chumps, we always buy excelsior. For good old-meal I'll pay my rocks: I want no sawdust in a box; to old time ware I slick like glue, and you won't see your uncle chew excelsior. ' Copyright. tii, by Oeorge Matthew Adams. |