Show REPORTED BY THE GROUCH here the original hiram J tell tells of j his attendance at a country function lla having ving nothing else to do re marked tho t he old 0 codger 1 I attended a IL t motion while I 1 wae was over at tor the he other day the affair as held in a dispirited grove at the end of a road in which every time a 4 horse cupped down do 11 his foot the duet dust shot up in the air like a sk skyrocket rocket A band was playing without the slightest remorse A statesman with ith a neck as wrinkled aa as a pickle dron ert ed forth redundant alth ith out end A ead sad and rickety merry go wound round and round to the bound sound of its own plaintive pee dio die deedle in a tipsy pavilion a coarse larae person A as ende endeavoring moring to sell 11 in braren def deduce cuce of the pure food and drug act what hat looked alarmingly like horned toads loads fried tried in axle grease A gentleman in a striped tent near by hoarsely stated that ho he preferred to eat at snakes at ten cents per eer ser pont there was the tile usual balloon which seemed perfectly willing to do anything may thing but go up scattered around through the festal scene were a few old soldiers grumbling a smattering of nf farmers far meri also grumbling sundry honest voters likewise grumbling and various other folks nothing about hom bora Is worth mentioning except that they too were grumbling it nay may have been a reunion a fair a rally a picnic or what hat not but whatever they chanced to call it t as an excellent example of one of our most cherished institutions kansas city star |