Show A mm FABLE I 1 hy geo P F dix upon a time there was u man who lived in a town that voted dry 1 I 1 fit it ele election tion time the man had bad an of fice in the off office tho th man mail kad had a curtain behind the curtain C tile the man had shelves on gil the sh elies the man had well the inam had something on those ohp ivea that is the man had something on at leat one of those sh shelves olves which shelves were behind the curtain the man had a stove in the room the man had a floor aloot in the room also the nan man h bad a dipper to drink out of A water dipper tile the dipper took the dry vote very era much to heart it waa wa a lazy dipper being a water dipper it expected now to be over orver w worked the dipper hatched a plot tie the stove was in it the was vas in it the well there was something else yes was something else in it too the floor was in ili it one oile day when the man mail was atut they held a council the alan ta 1 a heavy drinker walled the lazy dipper lets cure him of it sidd tho the stove bump him haid if I 1 get a chance said the floor the curtain waved for silence i your chane chance Is soon at hand scoured a spirit from behind th 1 curt tin dri smell the odor of my ammill 00 rc i cw we are two dozen brothers in our case the man mail is ie illi uncorking corking the glass house houle prison arson in ach I 1 am once out ye gods atones up up you lazy dipper I 1 feel myself too strong for him get et yourself half full of water wu terIl dilute me I 1 am the spirit of the son of Befuddle brain the father of stagger A agger Kill business and Pauper grave beside me croesus mere a beggar yea though he were croesus yet shall I 1 beggar him I 1 go by neck and neck no sooner out of one than down another go to to ye slaves of circumstance do your will upon the man alan seo see the roused dipper upon his lips I 1 go to work my will within while you work yours 1 ft I without 1 the dipper lay back upon tho th table perched against a leather bound pleadings blinking gleefully the one eye at the extremity of its long handle to see the stove and the floor do 10 tricks dupoin the man ilan while someone knocked upon the th door of the office th the son of led the man alan to ward the stove and strange as it may seem the stove stuck out one of its legs and tripped the man ilan the floor that used to be level imel and staid bad been rising and falling perceptibly when the floor saw the man coming it jumped up and bumped hini him full length with such a thud that the man alan dusty and gloaming gici aming had to get himself up by the assistance of a chair in order to gain the door whence knocking for admittance came louder and louder the plotters waited in silence to see gee it the ne newcomer new comer chimer were ally or foo foe it was nas a wisp of a woman frail as a thread of the curtain she sh came to battle homeward with the son of Befuddle brain and the lie man |