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Show BHIRTS GROW ON TREES THERl That, at Least, la tha Statement of an Old Sailor. ' "Shirts grow on treoa where ! rano from," aald fie old sailor. "How ao, ahlpmut?" a pale clerk asked. Tho sailor emptied his glass and wiped hla mouth with the hack of hit hard. "I m a Bpcakin'," he sui l, "of the South seas. You know them lik gnda over mere?" "Biiro," ruld t:io clerk. "Well, that's where I mean tint shlrte grow on trees. There's a kind of a willow tree on thorn Islands wll a aoft, flexlblo bark. A native seln i a tree wltn a trunk that's Just a Utile bigger round than hols. Ho makes a ring with his knife around the trunk through the bark, and he makes another an-other ring four foot bolow. Then, with a slit of the knife, he draws the bark off, the aamo as a boy dona In makln' a willow whlstlo. and ho'a got a Una, durable aulrt. All ho neods to do It to dry It out, make two holet for the arms, and put a larln' In the back tc draw It toKothor. "In the eprlr.g of the year the sblrts are gathered. Mon and women both go out at that time to look for trcei that tit them. These biirk shirts trt treated ao aa to bo to and flexible. They don't look bad. Gush harsi-d If they look bad at all, for ahlrts that grow on trees." r.illadelphla llecord. |