Show REPORTED BY THE GROUCH here the original iram J tells of his attendance da at a country fund aunet 0 on n 11 having nothing else to do remarked the old cadger cc adger I 1 1 I attended a function while I 1 vas over at torpid aidville ville the other lay ay the affair was held in a dispir ted ed grove at the end of a road in N litch every time a horse popped down nills toot foot the dust clust shot up in the air alko lice a skyrocket A band was playing g without tho the slightest remorse A statesman with a neck as wrinkled ts to a pickle dron ed forth redundant without end A sad sti d aal in rickety merry go wound anund r arld and round to the sound round of af its om 0 n plaintive pee dle d ed e deedle d ce d e in a t apsy pavilion a hoarse person was savoring 0 1 eAv oring to sell bell in brazen defiance de flance c tho the pure food and drug act abt what I 1 aked alarmingly like horned toads fri d in axle grease A gentleman til n a s aped tont tent noar near by hoarsely stated t that at lie he preferred to eat cat snakes at ten tei cents cent per serpent there was tle the usual balloon which seemed perfectly willing to do anything but go up scattered around through the festal scone were a few old soldiers 1 grumbling a smattering 9 of nf fa farmers also grumbling sundry gionest holiest voters like likewise iNise grumbling and various other folks nothing about whom Is worth me mentioning except that they too were gerej grumbling it may have been a re reunion nion a faila rally a picnic or ii liot but whatever they chanced to ia rail call it twits arl an excellent example of ono one of our most cherished institutions kansas city star |