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Show o DOWN IN OZARK LAND. Perry Andres is tho man who puts in a good bit of tlmo down in "Old Missouri" communing with naturo. Ho usually has something to say about It and bis manner of expressing It is calculated to make a mnn wish lie didn't havo to work, but that ho could got out In tho country and havo somo fun himself. Perry's lntcst was told to a St. Louis paper, and tho qualntness and froshnoss of his lnngungo Is worthy of reproduction in any man's country. This Is what tho old chap has to say about It: "Tho Plnoy nnd Gascondo aro in prlmo condition just now, and you know that means tho fish will hit ie I bait right hard. A feller can -nd plum out on tho bank of LItttle 1 iney now an' throw jacks and bass out in tho bottom In bods of bluebells knee deep. All tho hills aro carpeted with flowers, and now and then I kin heai an' old wild gobbler' talkln' Out loud from tho bluffsldo. Wo havo got quail out hero, too. Tho cold weather didn't j ' 1 seem to hurt them, as t I kin hear "bob white's" whissll, J, 1 1 Tuned tender like nn' low. J I ltoll soft and sweet across tho fields, ' 1 H Where coi n and 'taters grow. M . |