Show H Mormon John P. C. W. Stewart and A. Water Melon j By the Editor happened in Lake last week which was a Codfish-Salmon af-that to the occurred in Boston a few I repeat it as it came last July John P. or three brother called to the southeast- part of Salt Lake County to l after or administer to a Elk who was On their La journey to Salt they t driven into a Mormon bish-k me by a sudden thunder 1 and while waiting for it to Meakin entered the party in a very delight- I J manner by reciting the Hill Tie Under Man nth the Musket is lie asang Went Old When it the I Bishop took the party out to see his where a large watermelon attracted Meakin at In his highly dramatic way he struck an attitude over that melon and recited the melon story in darkey The Bishop was so over Meakin 's watermelon story that he when that melon gets ripe enough to r will pick it and bring it up to your house so you and your family can have a watermelon To cap the climax of the garden party Meakin recited that very classical and carefully written watermelon farmer is the noblest work of On the morning of that watermelon was enough to go when the Bishop thumped He immediately picked put it in a gunny placed it in the back end of his and started for The bishop had been troubled with a sorts face and he concluded to stop at Stewart's in Sugar House and have it treated with the While the Bishop was tying his horse in front of the he called Stewart out and showed him the prize relating the story that connected it with Stewart was very much interested and stated that it was the finest melon he ever Stewart's chore boy listened to the Bishop's narrative and became as much interested as the The Bishop went into the Doctor's office and received a half hour's after which he resumed his journey to Meakin 's with the When he arrived at the Zimmerman apartments where Meakin he rang the door and thus brought Meakin to the head of the The Bishop called up to him and I have your watermelon in my bring down a large dish pan to carry it Meakin soon arrived with the dish just as he left the front door he held aloft the dish pan and man with the melon is he also explained in coming after that it made him think of the trip to old Aunt and just before he got to the wagon he God bless for this great the- odor from that prize melon in your buggy is sweeter to me than the perfumes from the vineyards of The Bishop cart-fully lifted the sack out of the buggy and poured its contents to the waiting dish when out rolled a long necked Hubbard Squash 1 The Bishop looked sheepish and bo darned Meakin face assumed tho shape of Beckey Miller's beau when he was roasting he was as dejected as though he had received a countermand of a sale of 12 copies of of When the silence became too the Bishop when I left home this morning I had that prize melon in my and I showed it to Stewart in Sugar House Meakin said he picked up the dish and with li sad and mournful tread ascended The Bishop replaced the squash in the threw it the and in silence retraced his journey to He tied his horse in front of office and went in and told the Doctor whole Then I want you to go out and see what I found in the when I arrived at They went out to the the Bishop emptied the and out rolled the big prize melon it does beat h said the I am I have a fine large but when I am at Meakin's it is nothing but a goose necked Stewart's chore boy was not Stewart took in the situation and I think that my chore boy has come a cute little joke on but I will help you I am going to call on Root at six this he lives near Meakin's and I will personally see that Meakin gets that prize This seemed to lift a great load from the Bishop's so he gave the melon to the Doctor for Stewart took the melon into his kitchen and placed it in the Stewart then went to the and called up and this is what he John P. the fraternal lecturer and dramatic and the author of of All I have your prize melon in my I think that my chore boy played a little joke on the Bishop and changed the squash for the melon and then the melon for the I am coming up to Root's at sis o'clock in my I will keep your melon on ice till then and I will personally see that you get so be ready at that time to a big treat on ice-cold Meakin tWe who laugh last laught Stewart's chore boy listened to the phone but out of Stewart had a very busy At 5 he told the chore boy to take that melon out of the put in into a wet gunny sack to keep it and then put in in the At the Doctor was ready and started for Meak- in's with the ice prize Meakin met him at the curb wih the big dish Stewart emptied the when out rolled the same rubber-necked Stewart was he used words that would not do to repeat he looked as disappointed as he did about five weeks ago when he was called up by at a. m. and after riding five miles through the the and the the expectant father stuck his head out of the up-stairs window in the rain and yon can drive back it is a false That confounded old goose-necked squash appeared to Meakin as Banquo's ghost to only it was because it spoiled a watermelon Silence again in front of the Meakin At last Stewart put his hand into his pocket and pulled out a five-dollar gold and in handing it to he want three copies of the of mail me one copy and wrap the other two in and send one copy to Bob and other to Austin At that the Doctor jumped into his automobile turned on a double head of and hit only the high to his office- He for- got to call on Root or mil mysterious signs when he passe the Masonic saw and he though by the accelerated speed he WJ making that he was getting for the He was jui five minutes and eight and quarter seconds in getting to w where he found his clor boy waiting for jumped the boy by tie led him the and placed him where the ex-ray machine light would penetrate the boys Ha then tun on picked up Ait boy s and gazed on the There prize melon laid away in that boy's the melon looking as calm and contented as a- white kitten in a basket of cotton The Doctor shut off the machine and delivered a lecture to that boy in exclamations and Bible words that would make one of John P. classical lectures look like fly in a vinegar by He said in you are a disgrace to the civilized This day you have cast sorrow and dismay upon a Mormon You have put sadness and weeping on the cheerful and sunny countenance of a great dramatic reader and fraternal and you played h 1 with a Salt Lake I want you to to to to hit the to get out of to skid-doo for if I catch you within fifty miles of Sugar House I will have Harry Joseph put you in the Industrial School for The boy Stewart on his hat and went over to Clark's Drug Store and said to want you to get me another chore get me one that is not too fresh and one that is not overly fond of When the Doctor left the Drug slamming the door behind he said to he hissed it between his teeth and through his whiskers that was the last time he would ever try to deliver a watermelon for a Mormon |