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Show i JUST TALKED oV; SQUIRRELS I Listener Discovered That "Big" Man Are Not Always Olscusaing "Big" Buetaeee. Two pilgrims were following the i road to Mecca. At the treasury steps they met op with a squirrel that reminded re-minded the one who looked as if he owned a railroad to say to the other: "I waa showing my kid around the White House yesterday, and as there are no squirrels In the streets at borne, It sort of frightened the boy when one of these UtUe rascals tagged ns. I told hlra that all It wanted was peanuts and that when It found we had none It would go away whereupon the little chap bad a bright Idea. "Well, daddy, yon could give blm a nickel, couldn't you V The two chuckled with the ease that comes of good nature united to health, and the other man who looked aa if he owned two railroads and a good mine started In on a story of hla own: "I wouldn't be afraid to bet squirrels squir-rels could learn to spend nickels, at that. One time we were having a rumpus in the senate, with old Blank giving our side oratorical blood and thunder, and, sir, Just as we were about to he flayed alive, along hops a squirrel up the aisle, Jumps on Blank's arm extended in denunciation denuncia-tion sits on its haunches and begins to beg. It seems he had a pull on the old man, who always carried nuts In his pocket and It saved the day for ns." And by that time the story was through with, and the two pilgrims . had reached the Garden of Allah with a listener behind. Washington . Star. |