Show j TREMONTON i Dances in the Hardware Store Bites Her I Tongue Off i Editor Utah of our little busy has changed Until last was a great sitter but since then he can he seen reclining on the counters in our or hanging over a wagon is a large man and weighs over In his whole life he was never known to work every day for a Once in a while will work all day for some of the but one day's work at a time is his After has worked one he will draw Ms and for the nest few days he will hang around town and tell how it is a Jack-knife philosopher and a great critic A Jack-knife philosopher is a man who sits around the streets and the whittling cutting notches in dry-goods and Every stranger that comes to especially one who wants to buy a farm or live will tackle and tell him about the last hail storm that ruined or about the late frost in the or early frost in the fall that ruined He will prophesy there will be no fruit that the alfalfa the sugar beet and the grasshopper will ruin everything hr Bear River valley this coming He points out every house in town where they are expecting He revels in low-down is to Tremonton what the is to Salt Lake He magnifies and enlarges on everything that and says nothing of the But is not sitting around and this is the way it happened A few weeks ago a skunk made his home under back kitch- 1 said she liked musk in small but she did not like the skunk kind that you could cut with a knife so she told her son Billy to go over to the hardware store and get a good steel trap to catch that old Billy is a dutiful he immediately went over to the hardware store to examine some steel The hardware man a big stout one with a bull dog Billy took the trap to the vise and pressed the spring down so he could set He then laid the set trap in the chair behind the store and went out for a stick to spring the as Billy went out for the stick big came sauntering into the and wandered to the back of the It being somewhat dark hack by the did not see the trap and sat right down on hi yelled as he jumped over the stove into a basket of upsetting a lot of matches that the hardware man sells by take him off he again yelled as pranced around the room like a young colt among fire crackers on the Fourth of There was a long chain on the a lively tune on the floor and broken crockery while dancing kept perfect tune to the strange music it The hardware man was just cruel enough to sit down and laugh at high stepping and lively The postmaster and several hearing the racket in the hardware ran to see what was the and enjoyed the unusual At last three or four of them grabbed hold of backed him up against the and released the When could get sufficient he declared that he would kill Billy the first time he laid hands on and he was going to begin a lawsuit to recover from the hardware man for cruelty to The next day went over to the drug store and bought a rubber air The drug store man told that the last air cushion he sold was to who in going out on her kitchen porch had stepped on a cake of which made her suddenly pit down on three hot flat which she had set out there to cool The other down at Single's apple big Jane sitting on one end of a beech and Mary was on the Mary jumped up making the end of Iho bench fly up and hit Single her chin causing hat to bite the end of her tongue and before she could pick it the cat had swallowed It was a very painful The doctor said Single would be able to scold her husband around the house with the part of her tongue she had but she would never be able to give her testimony in a public Yours till next |