Gunnison Valley News | 1920-08-06 | Page 2 | He Had Missed Something

HE HAD MISSED SOMETHING Mr. Gap Johnson Brought to a Realization Realiza-tion of His Ignorance of His Surroundings. "It must be wonderful to live all your life long in the midst of the 'Land of a Million Smiles,' where the silvery waters purl and plash and the nymphs frolic all the day!" prattled one member of a party of city motorists motor-ists who had invaded the Ozarks. "To live in tlie p'tu ! which?" surprisingly sur-prisingly returned Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. "Here among the hills ana dells of 'The Playground of America.' Look at the advertisement In the newspaper and " "Well, I'll he p'tu dogged! I never vould 'a' b'lieved it in the living world if I hadn't seed it in the paper ! I've lived yur since Heck was a pup, and I never knowed nuthin' like these yur ladies nimps, I b'lieve you called 'em to be setting on rocks this-a-way and skylarking around with nuth'n in pertiekler on but undershirts and smiles. Say, how long has this yur p'tu ! business been going on, anyhow?" any-how?" Kansas City Star.