Show 11 FAff BY no 4 Is late COUNTRY news paper says that no 4 was two hours late tues day doesn doean t that bring a stream of recollection 7 no 4 was two hours late tuesday ah ali the life of the sat isfried folk back yonder where the punctuality and tardiness of the passenger train are matters of vital comment and think what that means no 4 was two hours late and halt half the town sat around that station waiting and wondering what had be come of her where had she been delayed had she been held up or had the he struck a broken rail and landed in the ditch had no 4 stopped to gath er tiger lilies up by southard s milla had ane conductor overslept or the said good by to his sweet heart once too often and missed the last chance to ride in to town there by delaying no 4 two long specula tive hours during which the public hung breathless on its fate ah ali but when no 4 DOES come then the two hours wait is forgot ten the tribune has arrived the strategy board has convened in the park the village street is again awake I 1 the hand upon the throttle of time loos ens its grip and life wags on in the even tenor of the rural way no 4 was two hours late tues day darn the luck I 1 id d like to have been back yonder with HI III and the bunch waltin for her S picnic melange now comes the glad vacation time ahen hen bugs are in the pie and fuzzy thin chinos s with whirring wing wings ke ile bins bing you in the eye upon the saard the lowers loners sit and hold each other others s hand while merry jack snipes pipe their songs and teeter on the sand then comes the glad and noisy bunch eat their soggy picnic lunch where rivers sing and cowbirds call and hoppers romp and play the busy toll s with baskets ft lied are wont to pass the day beneath the leafy farest tree upon the grassy wold wh re pesky ants and other things explore each lacy told fold oh hear the maiden mercy me an ant is in her I 1 ingerle nov no v through the woodland pipes a yell tl TI at cuts you ou to the quick A hornets nest has been disturbed by some one with a stick and no v s a cry that chil s your blood and makes 3 sour our nerves a wreck A caterpillar panic struck has alien fallen down he her neck oh oli hear tl e maiden yell and s shout ou won wont t someone f as s the critter out thoughts most men are model husbands dur ing the lion honeymoon e u we cannot all be kings somebody has to throw the jai javelin elin r if even a crown would have some drawbacks this hot weather the life of man to eternity Is like the glow of a firefly in the night ft that he may cover his own short comings the critic often makes a satire on another u u most of 0 you have more things now than are good for yaa set et nobody but ma m self for instance will admit it 5 F azz az no gentleman will kick because he can cant t find his smoking tobacco when his wife is down in the cellar splitting the kindling now advances the season when the average man would like to trade a high temperature for a cake of ice lee before we realize it ft the summer will be gone and the flaming sumacs stand ing scarlet guard upon the hills u eight horses ran away with the hippopotamus in a circus parade at cleveland and gave the hippo a touch of high life bystanders say that the animals would have run a good race it if there hadn t been so much weight up NOR |