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Show Iffil CUPOLA FT SKETCHEr J ) -fy BVPON WILLIAMS DID Yi:tt KVKItt Did ycr ever kd n-tlxliln' In tlier hiizy, mazy ilnys Go n-IWhln' nml ii-Wliln' A tcr-rl-blc wnys? And ycr tnkp yer lUhln' tncklo An' yrr wormln', Kiiulnnln' enn, Oo n-llnhln' nml u-vUnhln' Th' Joy-ful-ent man! Did ycr ever bo n-llnhln' With n hulky. bulky lunch. IruilKe n-riRliln' and ii-wUhln With a big Lite hunchr Did ycr ever ro n-nnliln' Oh what mnildfr, wiililer Fate-To Fate-To an llshln' nnd n-ulxhln' and FuitaiT vint i.iyuiD liAm Onco again tho season Is upon us when tho tired and retired city toller with a grip full of flannel shirts nnd bacon-rlnd bait hies himself to some Ideal spot in tho pastoral wlldwood, where ho can listen In rapt enthusiasm enthu-siasm to Munchausen -talcs of how tho fish bit Just before ho arrived and how they will surely blto before ho goes away! Tho farmer sits on tho voranda and between whiffs of an old dudcon tells how puro tho air Is and how It knocks tho city bacilli out of a man. His good wife, In hor nlpaca runabout, ladles out great goba of Joy as slio dwells upon tho comfort you will tako sans coat, sans vost, sans collar, sans overythlng except a fow minor underclothes, a negllgeo shirt and a pair of pajamas. Having braved the menu, consisting of soda crackers, dry chipped beef, store cook-les cook-les with white frosting, nnd a few other delicacies of a llko charactor, you tako on appreciation of the purity of tho air. From $2 to $5 per day for pure air naturally calls for a highly high-ly clarified atmosphere, and you bo-gin bo-gin to feel light-headed. When you are so full of air and soda crackers you can remain anchored no longer, you suddenly got a telegram (?) to como home and bury your office boy. With highly Inflated lungs you return tptho city, stepping high and having a sunburn that, llko tho smile, won't come off. In your sadder and moro communistic commun-istic moments you recall that your dream of bacon and eggs, fresh vegetables, vege-tables, wooded nooks, big fish catches and a quart or two of Just rest was a nightmare. You firmly resolve to Introduce In-troduce a bill In tho legislature compelling com-pelling all country resort keepers, farmers especially, to furnish photographs photo-graphs of surroundings, map of lake, certificate of fish catches, together with Sample menu by mall, to all prospective pros-pective boarders who, upon arrival, will demand as a further protection, n good and sufficient bond binding tho resort liar to tell tho truth, thfc whole truth and nothing but tho truth," during the entire season. But you get busy bulling the market or keeping tho market from bulling you and forget your resolves. Next year you go out and work off your enthusiasm In tho samo way. Pure air comes high, but wo must havo it. . Curious how Bomo men make hits in this world, isn't it? Sad, too, how many times tho placard, "Ho was a good boy, but ," has been attached to the. tall of a young man's coat. When at school this second miniature genus homo was a favorlto with tho teacher because he always know his lessons, was neat and tractable, nover devilish and always reliable. Alongside Along-side of llttlo Johnny Green, whoso faco was over BUggestlvo of a night In the slough, whoso hair was tangled nnd had a cow-lick in It, who novor missed an opportunity to "can" a dog's tall or stick pins where they would do tho most good for tho greatost number, tho "good boy, but " was a paragon para-gon of promise. In lator llfo, ho do-volopod do-volopod Into an honest milkman with occasional dabbles In "working round." A "good boy but " ho beenme a "good man but " Ho belonged to that great aggregation known as Tho Non-Combustlblo Leaguo, tho fellows that "novor sot tho world on fire." Llttlo Johnny Greon, to tho contrary notwithstanding, took a firm hold on tho sent of his trousers and lifted himself past tho "canned" dogs into tho realm of success, whoro ho Is now busily engnged counting his monoy nnd wondering where ho will build his next summor's "box" by the lapping lakeside. Tho "box" usually turns out to bo a $CO,000 "cottage" at Hub-bernecks' Hub-bernecks' Roost, or some other fashionable fash-ionable neck on tho coast. Tho woods are full of Just such examples. It nover pays a toachor to scoff at her dullest scholar. Ho may somo day clean up her preserves with n mortgage, mort-gage, or fomo to lecture In her town and bo met by a committee of ten, ol which sho will not bo ono becauso she was not sufficiently urged. Whon a boy wo ofton failed to got our algebra lesson becauso of tho interior work lngs of genius. Look at us now! A living oxamplo of our urgumont. Yoi can't toll by tho looks of a fiog hot far ho can Jump for n fly. Tho tencV who locked dlsdnlnfully at us is rrt Ing but nn old maid to this very d' whllo wo aro married and linv' learned an algebra losson In it i'e years. iMornl 13o gocd ard you v be happy- U7V |