Show I JottingS From Froma Jottings II IIa I a Prodigal Son Dear Bish I I ye ve been having a merry time since I wrote you last In fact it has been i most difficult for me to hold off of tell tell- telling telling ing you the news before it gets too stale Wandering around from place to place has its tragedies and some some- sometimes times a most merry and hearty laugh Now I never relate the tragedies that happen but I cannot withhold a cir clr circumstance that happened to me this seek I have ha often inwardly said a afew afew few cuss cords when the drivers of auto after auto have passed me up along the trail tran Just a few days ago I Iwas Iwas was making the grade at a merry pace when Andrew H Brown of Amos n Andy fame came sailing salling along at a rosy pace He stopped invited me to have n a seat beside him which I gladly accepted The auto had only part of the top and it sas as raining good and hard We drew up in front of a store stort got out and took shelter under the porch Presently out came a customer I guess and as he looked into my placid and smiling countenance he said I Hello Amos where are you and Andy going in the Open Air Taxicab andI I Well sir you could have knocked me down with a feather I took a look at atthe I Ithe the auto and I said brother I guess you re right Its It's surely the same one I that Andy is now touring the country m in but I had not found it out Well we had a puncture and as usual Andy had only about one third of the necessary sary amount to get the old Un tin Lizzie in condition for travel He called on me for the balance I had to dish up or lose my ride Well we pulled into Ogden and Andy said he was hungry so was I but we parted company will- will willingly on m my part and he went his way and I mme He was the very counter counter- counterpart counterpart part of Andrew H Brown by way of always being dead broke but his Amos had to say good bye and let him travel alone in the Open Air Taxicab Switching over to polItics which IS ISa isa a very lIve subject these days I am sorry that I cannot help a few of my gOOd old friends out on both of your Grand county tickets this year with my vote Were I there to vote Id I'd certainly have a mixed ticket for once in my lIfe There are some good men menon menon on bOth tickets and whichever wins wine the people ot of Moab will not have cause to complain of getting in weak men menSo menso So I shall shaH watch for the coming con test and just wart walt and see May the best men wm win I If you see a woman moisten her lips I while reading a novel you may know th it the hero and the heroine are about to kiss But remember that I Englishmen e to the right Amen Ameri- Americans cans to the right hogs m in the middle Watch and see I In his day and tIme Henry Ward Beecher vas sas a great American a noted I divine and a most remarkable preacher The anecdote I am going to reate ac- ac actually happened so I am told and I Iam Iam am pissing it on for you to l read ad He J was amused one day Shen v hen he and a friend sent ent into a Bovery restaurant to I on one occasion to get something eat In gh mg one order to the cook the s altel hollowed ed our sinkers and andI cow Witch me give th it welter w an I order which I think he sill III not be able II to said Beecher to his friend Finally It came hiS turn to order and he said Give me poached on for two the broken The v salter walked to the end of the table and yelled to the cook m Ahm and E Es e on a raft wreck em Beecher nearly fainted and gave up in Ir desp Woman oman The dearest deal est s gift to man That nature ever gave IDs His comforter and His angel and hIS slave She s sunlight starlIght moonlIght She's musIc flower and song And every faith and hope and love And JOY to her belong And every beauty rare and grace Around her joyous throng She s natures nature's masterpiece and pride And art s divinity beside And naught In all creation side So constant sure and true But who on earth or who In hell Or even in Heaven itself can ten tell Just when she's going to take a spell Or what she's going to do Anon yOU KNOW ME |