Show SHIRTS GROW ON TREES THERE that at least Is the statement of an old sailor shirts grow on trees where I 1 came from said the old sailor how so a pale cleric asked the sailor emptied his glass and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand im as he said of the south seas you know them ands over sure said the clerk well where I 1 mean that shirts grow on trees there s a kind of a willow tree on them islands with a soft flexible bark A native selects a tree w ith a trunk that s just a little bigger round than he Is he makes a ring with his knife around the trunk through the barb and he makes an other ring four foot below then with a slit of the knife he draws the bark off the same as a boy does in makin a willow whistle and he s got a fine durable all he needs to do Is to dry it out make two boles for the arms and put a lacin in the back to draw it together in the spring of the year the shirts are gathered men and women both go out at that time to look for trees that fit them these bark shirts are treated so as to be soft and flexible they don t look bad gosh hanged it they look bad at all for shirts that grow on trees philadelphia record |