Show IN SLANG km adf 0 mat ada the new fable of the two philanthropic native son who brought home the bacon once there were two homo home boya BOYS who sallied forth from a straggling village in search of an irrational fe male known as aft dame fortune when they had covered enough ground around to be far away from the elderly relations and no ono one could point out the houses in m which they were bom born they began to deliver it woe was a sad jolt to tho the walking vegetables back in the stockade Stoc kado when they heard on good authority that ezra and dill bill were slamming it over the plate and batting above they simply wagged tho the ossified oeal fled domes and hoped the boys were getting it honestly ezra and bill up among the inflammatory posters and the nervous electric signs kept on playing tag with the sherman act until they had it in oodles tacks and bundles and bales dales and finally when they became so prosperous that they had to wear shoes specially made with holes in the top they began to be troubled with tender Ile recollections collections of humble birthplace through the tho haze of g years they saw the game of two old cat in the vacant lot back of the at E church and forgot all about sleeping in the refrigerated attic and going down don in the morning to thaw out the wooden pump they yearned to elbow out from the congested traffic le of the cold and heartless city and renew sweet associations they wanted to wander once more down the he avenues of rhubarb and clasp hands with old friends whose simple hearts averaged about 14 throbs to the All minute nute it is the regulation dream of every financial to go back to his old town wearing a laurel wreath and have tho the school children throw moss roses in his pathway so ezra lent on a Propos proposition tilon he wanted to build a library at the corner of fifth and main blain thereby making it ewy for his old neighbors to read the six best beat sellers without plugging the authors game he offered to give bucks if the Citi citizens zons would raise more and maintain the thing ezra had not been in the habit of reading anything except the tape and he cared about as much for george bernard shaw as george bernard shaw cared for him nevertheless he wanted to be remembered 50 year years hence as the man who built the library and not ae as the guy quy who dealt from the bottom of the deck utilizing the sleeve device and the bosom hold out by the use of anaesthetics aesthetics An and forceps the was secured then the we building was erected and the only criticism made was that the location was poor and the dod blasted concern looked like a barn and it was arranged wrong inside and nobody want no library when ezra came down to the dedication to face an outraged and tax burdened people he was just us popular as litle or sciatica a ever dared to be bill ame back also he floated into town one city diy and appeared in Jimi sone general store and called for a good cigar he told mr jillson to take one and called up the boys around the stove and even those who were chewing were told to put em in their pockets and smoke ism em after while when the word got out that bill was buying over at the bee hive representative citizens came on the jump from the harness shop and the undertaking parlors and the elle elie bowling alley esery man alan that showed got a lot let UA lee with ith a band around it and when bill left on the a mob followed him to the tho train ever after that the word waa was freely passed around that dill was a anc e MORAL in scattering seeds of kindness do it by hand and not by machinery |