Show FABLES IN I 1 I 1 N ADE alej L A the new now fable of ahe he galloping pilgrim 9 rim who tried to sit down by the ho layalde Vay alde A certain affluent bachelor happened bened to bo be the only grandson of a rugged early settler settlor who wore were a coba skin cap and drank cora com culp juice out of a jug away back in the Dayaw day when bou every poor man had bacon in the smoke smote hour house this pioneer had been soaked in a trade and found himself loaded up with a swamp subdivision in the edge of town fifty yean years later the city bad pread spread two allea miles beyond the swamp and grandson waa was submerged beneath so to much unearned increment that he beian began to peak speak with what sounded to him like an english accent und mind all his shirt shirts were ordered from part paris oa on ahe lit lot at 0 every month mouth the agents would crawl into the Pres presence suca of the grandson of the mighty muskrat hunter and dump before him a of paper money which bad had been boon matched watched away from the struggling shopkeepers shop keepers who la in turn bad had wheedled it from the people who paid a nickel apiece for sunday paper papers ao so as 64 to look took at the picture pictures of the data rations in the supper boom room at the assembly ball meed graced by the presence Pree ence of the aforesaid bachelor whole whose grandfather had lifted the original catfish out of the chicago chickillo river then than the representative of the old family would take a harden garden rake and pattern all an this hateful currency into a neat mound after which a milk fed secretary would iron it out and disla feet it and it with ulao alao water and tie it into artistic packet packets trine using old gold ribbon after that it wa was hard line unto for the bachelor because he had to ait sit by a window at the CIO and dope out somo new dow way of at getting all bit that coin back into circulation aa As a basult of these herculean bf forte forts to vaporize bla his income he be found himself at the ace age of 40 afflicted with social Gast gastritis ritts he had gorged him salt elf with the pleasures pleasure of thia this world until the light of at a menu barki gave him the willies william and the mere more mention of musical comedy would cause him to break down and cry like a child he had c aced the atlantic so 0 o often that he no longer wished to lit sit at the captain table he had rolled them I 1 ie 1 i 4 P J had to dope out some erne way of att ting ong the coin back into circulation high at monte carlo and watched the durbar at delhi and sud taken tea on the T jsmes armco at t a la ta cli C li viiu 4 Ack swed through japan and ridden the urt surf in honolulu while bla his name waa was a household Houwe hold word among the barmaids Dar malda of the ice palace la in london otherwise known as the savor occasionally be he would return to his hl provincial home to role ralee the rente rents on an the shopkeeper shop keeper and out an interview criticizing that New school of for trifling trilling with vested tested la in teresta ani an to disturb existing condition conditions any time his hi rako rake off wa was reduced from 10 a 11 minute a u t a to ta as be he aou would I 1 d let out a howl like ft A prairie wolf and call upon mortimer bin hi man for sympathy after twenty tear teen of getting up at twilight to throw aside th the e and take a tub and ease himself into the costume made famous by john drew the routine of buying golden pheasants and special care vintage vintages tor for almost ladles preserved by ben ban of at soda and other chemical mysteries hysterics ngan to lose ita its M sarp irp zest la in other words L ras as all IB in he lie was track sore bore and blase and sore ae as a crab and full of onay ito bad had played the whole string and found there wa w nothing to it and now he wae was ready to retire to a monastery and wear a canny Cunny back Sack smoking jacket and live on spinach ike vanities of the night world bad had cot got on his nerves at last instead of at S feet ar at ay my from an Import importer eJ orchestra at 2 A st and taunting bis his poor old alimentary system with be SOS food he began to prefer to take a it I 1 10 grate sleeping powder and fall back in the alfalfa about noon the neit next day dar be ald d cone come up tor for air and la in order to all kly the mt rest of the day he would bave te tc hunt up a game of auction with three or four our other gouty old mavericks when the carbon begin to bum low lu in the sputtering arc lights alone along t the bc boulevard Boul erard of pleasure and the nil bl wind cuta cuts like a chisel and jhc thc th reveler finds bli his bright crimson braa elgan lowly slowly dissolving itself teto I 1 helva headache there Is but oa oat thing for or a wile ike to do and that la to to chop on the festivities and beat it to a beat rest cure cuts that Is just what the well fixed died bachelor decided to do he resolved to marry and get away I 1 from the bright lights and lie down somewhere ome where in a quilted dressing gown and a pair of soft slippers and derota the remainder of hie his life ufa to a gran I 1 clean up of the work works of arnold dec demp oett nett he selected ed a well seasoned senorita who ho wai was till still young enough to show to your hen man friend but old enough to cut out all the prevalent about the irish drama and norwegian art and buddhism lim and true symbolism of russian dancing belt best of all she he bad a spotless ROD reputation holding herself down to one bronx at a time and elways going behind a it screen to do her bar inhaling they were married according to the new now ceremonies Cere devised by the ring ling brothen brothers As A they rode rods away to their future home rome the old stager leaned back in the limousine and aid said at lat last the bird baa has lit I 1 am going to put on the this simple life ufa for an indefinite run I 1 bare have played the th hoopla hoop la lit game gama to a standstill so 0 o it ts is me for a haven of reef As loon soon aa as they were lately safely in that own apartment apartments the beautiful bride began to do ap flaps and screech tor for joy at laet last I 1 hare bays a license to cut loreel she he for year years I 1 have hankered and honed to be dead game owns and back buk excitement right off the board boards but every time I 1 pulled pulle a caper the adem faced mater would be at elbow saying nix on the aero acro batica or you 11 lose your number now im a regular honest goodness to married woman and I 1 dont recognize any limit except the sky una I 1 grabbed you because I 1 knew you had bad been to all the places that keep open and could frame up a new jamboree every day in the year im going to plow an eight foot furrow across etrope and dine forevermore at swell holuta joluta where famous show girls pass so a clow close to your table that you can almost reach out and touch them im going gains to travel twelve months my nt year and do all the stunts known to the most imbecile globe trotters 1 A few weeks after that a haggard man mom with tattered coattails coat tails was seen going ov erthe the old familiar jumps MORAL those who marry to escape something usually find something else |