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Show when his present contract is up. He began first by steadying Fillmore, Fill-more, seen at the right; balanced on a whip; the heavy black thing the figure is standing on is the aforesaid Iron heel, loaded; you've seen these little Bob-up-Jacks, with a buckshot in the base; and every time you put it down, back up It bobs, bolt upright well, that loaded Iron heel of Fillmore Fill-more does the same trick. See It there bolt upright, austere, duster on chin, hands in pocket, immobile, and labelled on watch charm. See how Hon. steadies it. Takes some man to do that. With Fillmore steadied, he took a tick and a tin plate, spun the plate rapidly, and when he got it Into peed, he slung little Delta up In the jir to ride it. Every time the kid comes around facing Fillmore, you can see his attitude. Oh, yes, he's much worried about 2 vs. 9 two fingers to nooe is all he cares about. (Say, whose funeral Is this, anyway? any-way? I guess we pulled it off, and if you don't like It, go and get a funeral of your own, all to yourself. Then you can run It to suit you. Butt out.) And while this is going on, Hon. akes Sections B and C and gets 'em ' going, and keeps 'em up. And Sec-ton Sec-ton A is seen winking the other eye it the Guvvernur and the Road Com-nlsslon, Com-nlsslon, tellln' 'em "you've got to nave me In it, boys; for without me the act aint complete." He's right. Some remarked during the stunt that it wasn't road sections at all that It was three county commissioners commission-ers Hon. kept "up in the air" with his chin (music). . We ljunen oil before the Legislature, Legisla-ture, and settled once for all. Oh, I don't know when there was more excitin' things at a funeral! Wouldn't uv missed this one when Th' Ol' Hatchitt was buried for naw-thin'. naw-thin'. PUKSUIXtl HIS HOBBY Ha! The next on the program ol festivities was Tommy M:-.rtln ol Hinckley, chasing down a Back Teric with a magnifying glass, carrying Millard Academy in his head all the while. See the busy little Doctor witl pockets stuffed w'th tost tubes, hap-oily hap-oily engaged in his quest. He likes. U. No, the bug he Is after is not a Doodle Bug; on a second glance you an really see that it is not. This one is a Back Teria, mostly back, hard serrated, horny, armored back; a saw tooth edge on that back; it sharpens itself honing that back on anything convenient. The Genus is Back Teiia; the specific species is The Hate Bug. Notice No-tice the hate bug.- Armed with a rhinoceros horn above its nose, and two big tusks below, it can inoculate you with a prod from below up, or open its jaw and nip you one with the two fangs; if cornered, it can goat you with those two prods above. You can't grab to kill it, because of its armored back; grab that and your hand is cut very badly. Too close to it, and those four .legs propell it suddenly sud-denly in a huge leap right onto your person, and there with those four feet armed with claws it hangs; you can't rid yourself of a Hate Bug, once one fastens on; and that tail barbed on the end, a Hate Bug is all offensive armour. It is quite an offensive bug. And the most deadly poison of any Insect, reptile or germ yet discovered. Doctor Martin says: "The Hate Bug, scientifically known by Its Latin appellation of Bugaboo Hatinitis, la of the Bugaboo genus, widely spread and greatly differentiated; the specific spe-cific species Hatinitis Is developed in a cultureof envy. A sensitized gelatine gel-atine plate exposed to the air currents of gossip anywhere between Fillmore and Delta is found to have 2,177,143 of these Back Teria per square millimeter. milli-meter. Between Hinckley and Delta only 17 on the same surface. Between Be-tween Woodrow and Delta a wonderful wonder-ful sight Is resented to microscopic vision; Instead of a thriving colony of Hate Bugs, we find the Let'a-Do-It-Together germ overcoming the Individual In-dividual Hate Bugs by a wile of Nature; Na-ture; the Hate Bug sets his teeth on anything in Hate, becomes rigid, hard, with all weapons set, so Let's-Do-It-Together Germ deftly places the barbed tail of the Hate Bug between be-tween its own mandibles, and the thing wastes itself in violent threshing thresh-ing around, all the while the Let's-Do-It bugs hum at their constructive work of building a wall around their hereditary enemy, and soon the Hate Bug is enclosed. Its poison exhausted in futile lashings against the wall of Constructive Effort erected by the Let's-Do-It-Together spirit." "Any one can be made perfectly Immune to the poison of the Hate Bug by fortifying himself with Constructive Con-structive Spirits; one swig of this antidote, and ths partaker becomes |