| Show TALL TALES rales 88 As told to FRANK E HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON 0 9 the artistic goat georgias S delightful climate gave 1 I continuous employment to the goats owned by that eminent At lantan pat candler dinkins the goats were sandy and mandy mandy was tied in tl it e barn most of the time pat noticed casually that she amused herself by plaiting straw into various shapes and sizes sandy went out at night to attack trespassers there was the pecan grove in the fall and luscious georgia water melons to be guarded every summer and not a night passed but sandy returned with scraps of clothing his horns had speared from the hind of some inny wl ose judg ment had surrendered to his appetite pat rat says sandy was invaluable as watchman and that the materials he brouil t in invariably were scraped from sandy 9 horns into the goat stall size and color of samples depended of course on what white litte folks of the neighborhood had worn the year before I 1 v was as pro proud ud of sandy pat con besses but I 1 t appreciate mandy until I 1 sneaked into the stall with a flashlight one night and learned how she used her spare time chere she was calm and content contented ed as can be weaving a beautiful rag rug from the materials that sandy d brought in whenever we need carpets up at the house now I 1 simply drop a sup ply of rags into mandy mandys s stall when it its s real dark and make male a scraping noise like sandys horns that goat can weave four 3 by 6 rugs in one week meek and take a day off besides ring round rosy TN MILAN TENN where a special IN I 1 ty Is claimed for watermelons fine baseball clubs and tomato crops they brag about their fat girl this lady according to bruce 01 oliver lver was the most enormous gal inhabiting west tennessee nobody knew her name said bruce because no one ever got that close to her just in fun he called her rosy she came over to milan from the nearby town of mckenzie Mc Kenzle and almost immediately was besieged with suitors the most persistent of these was as bruce himself he used to visit the damsel sit out on the porch with her and feed h her ice cream from a double freezer when the bottom of the freezer was reached bruce sorely smitten by the fat girls charms was inclined to grow serious in his love making ile gasn wasn t aisil lusio ned even when she confess confessed edhe she slept in a bed strewn with cinders cinder to prevent her rolling off bruce was a persistent cuss he ad bitted in attempting to express his true feelings he would place an arm arm part way around the fat girl when he had reached as far as possible he would mark his position with a pink crayon then he would move around to the mark resume a posture of affect tion and so gradually encircle the waist of the girl he worshiped the romance progressed swimming wi mining ly according to M milan ilan records until the day bruce shifted position crayon in fingers and bumped into an utter stranger who was chalking his own way around the waist from the op direction the erratic gale in chicago it isn t even S necessary to go into a restaurant if you insist upon changing headgear this will be understood as well as the reason chicago Is called the windy city when it Is known what happened during the second century of progress press to the visitor from Kall hall spell mont this gentleman strolled blithely through the fair when a gust of lake michigan wind lifted the wide brimmed stetson from his head slapped it twice against a flagpole and digap feared with it in the dusk the dismayed fairgoer fair goer almost swat at lowed his toothpick in his vexation he had turned toward a ne nearby arby hat store to buy a new headpiece when there came a sudden swirl another stetson dropped from out the sky and settled on his brow fhe second hat was as of fine texture in good condition and fitted perfectly all these details havin been carefully attended to by the second errant breeze which fortunately had decided to befriend the visitor As he be related the experience tha night in a michigan avenue tavern he was approached by an entire stran ger who smilingly returned the lost lot hat bat and retrieved his own the second man it seems had brought three carloads cir loads of cattle to the stock yards As he was marketing them he too was selected by a play i tul ful breece the hat of each man had been whisked away to the head of the other even though they were nine miles apart at the time a western newspaper Newe paper union |
