Show THE INGENIOUS MAN once there was a very ingenious man ho believed in i every thing according to its intended use as indicated by its label one day he sat thoughtfully picking his teeth with the point of his jaw and trying to count the twigs in his family tree also he was giving some thought to the number of ti lesin the root of his mouth and the leases in the palm 0 hl hand he si ent a lot of valuable time looking for the and ear u on the cap of his knee he wondered casually why the bridge of his nose had not been made on the suspension principle instead of using abutments and how many stones were in the arch of his foot connect ing this vaguely with the tendency of the sole in its vicinity to contract stone bruises he marveled by the hour why the pilgrim s progress would not have been more rapid without bunions and as he pondered he ab bently played toss and catch with the ball ol 01 his eye occasionally throwing it across the base of his brain as it he were catching a runner at second he spent a week trying to make an arrow he could hoot from the bow of his legs whittling it it painfully with his shoulder blade and filing down of his fingernails for points wherever he went he careful b kept step to the drum in bis ear and he almost went insane wondering why all his food did not mal e a full stop when it reached his colon on hallow e en he suspended his adam apple one of his vocal cords and tried in va n to bite a piece out of it one day he ran pell mell for three blocks to try to get a policeman to ar rest the crook in his elbow naturally this sort of person would meet a unique death one day he dis covered his funny bone and laughed himself to death at it strickland W gillilan in judge |