Show E VISIT BY A REFORMED GOLFER John Kieran th the well-known well Quit Quil Kid dropped in on us at our wood land nook Lassitude Marshes tru other day He left us feeling more mori ignorant than usual Events that were Just about shale shako ing ng the world were occurring but bui the he Wizard of tossed tosse them hem aside for native flora an and fauna Considerations of sensations sensation episodes in Germany gave way to i a study o of the yellow thorn apple the Far East crisis made way for i a study of th the night heron working or the he day shift and nothing that Roosevelt and Dewey might do tools took precedence over the operations ol of robin wren and meadowlark Mr Kieran carries a microscope as he walks along country lanes and he peers at every weed in the manner of a man locating the mainspring main spring of a Swiss watch It begins to look as is about through we observed as the hike began Wild onion was the answer Bet you didn't know any grew like this Ws Pretty flower under the scope too Once things of this nature begin in Germany anything can happen we persisted Look I The flight is bumpy Always Al Al- Always ways tell its it's a goldfinch I remember the last war Tansy Otherwise known as Bitter Bit Bit- ter Buttons John was saying with a glass in his eye again as he inspected a yellow flower which we had spent a lifetime Ignoring He asked us to examine it under the microscope We did Darned if it wasn't an exquisite thing when mag allied Now you take those Russians we suggested Sassafras announced Mr Kieran Think so we replied lie He I was referring to a green le leaf f he had picked Taste it We Wo tasted It He was right again What do you think of Truman as against Wallace we asked a moment later biter Cowbirds I Oh I wouldn't say that He was pointing to a couple of birds we had always thought were overfed sparrows Lay their eggs in other birds' birds nests Let the other birds hatch and raise the young And heres here's a question question question ques ques- tion How comes it that the young cowbirds never having seen or known a cowbird will at once leave the nest and join cowbirds It must be political we ventured ventured ven vena not needing the twenty-five twenty dollars anyhow Theres a bunch of cranes over there by that maple Night heron Flies with its feet out straight behind and its neck folded like a a snake And that's a ablack ablack ablack black walnut not a maple He lie now picked up a small yellow flower which we had never thought worthy of passing attention You know the snapdragon This is the uncultivated type Butter and Eggs its it's called Under the glass it was quite beautiful this we asked picking a small yellow flower that seemed the only one of its type around We thought we we had him Moth loth mullein We felt pretty thick about things until a rabbit ran across the road Here was our chance Rabbit we announced brightly Could be said John us we added to give him the Latin He had intended leaving on the noon train but took the 1105 Hitler at bay issues a warning that he will make Europe a welter of blood Recalling the old story of the fellow who said My daughters daughter's eloped with a no-good no my wife has run away from me my little littleboy littleboy littleboy boy just fell down a well and I doht don't feel very good myself And you say you'll make trouble for me met I The prices at summer hotels and for cottages at vacation resorts have soared this summer and an awful howl is going goin up kickin about Don t you know that cool breezes breeze are harder to get these days on account of the war Dont Don't you understand that high tides arent aren't what they used to be and that in some places they have to use substitutes e Lester J J. J Fitzpatrick manager of ofa ofa ofa a Detroit radio station would be our choice for lor President He lie has banned the middle commercial on all radio radio ra ra- dio dlo broadcasts declaring that they do more harm than good to the tho station and to the advertiser George Bernard Shaw has come out against any punishment of the Nazi war leaders He lie says they must be treated gently after the war It would be l nice lice ce if Mr Shaw did his writing in some place like Lidice |