Show fa 0 NV N V mum 0 ic about olk t personal endorsements indorsements Indor TEXAS I 1 used H HOUSTON to be a pret pretty ty fair hand at in dorsing things but I 1 realize now what a piker I 1 was I 1 in only one thing at a time for the present champions I 1 offer a suggestion when that distinguished world traveler bringing testimonials timo nials B back a c k alive and that eminent movie star who lives in hollywood right next to al Z live reading matter and is authoress of miss coldreck Cold deck recommends get through in dorsing practically everything else let them irvin S cobb then club in and attain the very highest peak of in by jointly in dorsing the famous society queen who has indorsed endorsed indor sed more products than they even or anybody 0 0 noted ancestors ON THE little hogg dickson ranch at casa blanca mexico only acres I 1 met the caporal or head man of the cow herd and one famous as a rifle shot an upstanding clear eyed mexican but I 1 fancied with some faint indefinable suggestion of the anglo saxon in his facial contours however his name as I 1 caught it was pronounced ernesto boona boo na which to my alien ears sounded enough for all purposes he knew no english yet when I 1 mentioned kentucky a thing ive been known to do before he poured out a rippling flood of spanish louis Kr esdorn the texas born manager translated ernesto says he has heard of a faraway far away place called kentucky according to a legend in his family his great great grandfather once lived there was muy muy vivo and was the nephew of an even greater gringo warrior who drove the savages before him like tumble weeds before a wind so I 1 saw a light and I 1 inquired how ernesto spelled his last name he spelled it the orthodox way so as members of the same stock a pioneer ancestress of mine having married a kinsman of the great pathfinder I 1 held a reunion with this mighty huntsman dachshunds T LIKE dachshunds more sense of humor than anything I 1 ever saw that came out of prussia I 1 always figured the breed was produced by crossing a rat terrier on a german compound verb and I 1 still believe yau you could combine usefulness with their natural comedy by training them to retrieve collar buttons from under low bureaus I 1 indorse the phrase of the mathematical ema sharp who said a dachshund was half a dog high and a dog and a half long but I 1 claim captain mike hoggs chauffeur mose coined the best description yet when mrs hogg brought home the first one mose ever beheld his eyes bulged out like twin pushbuttons push buttons lawsy miss alice he exclaimed is this here thing its a dog said mose i if f you U told me id a sa said i i it t wo was s a snake on roller skates hunting in texas IT TT WAS raining so hard even the A seagulls were trying to get in the clubhouse so the ducks went away somewhere out of the weather so the hunters who were less intelligent than the ducks came back from the blinds dripping like so many leaky hot water bottles after being bailed baided out we sat down to vittles bittles nothing unusual just the customary club dinner all we found on the menu was beef hash duck stew liver and onions country smoked sausage and home made headcheese also hot biscuits corn pones and rice cakes likewise likewise turnip greens rice sweet potatoes squash snap beans and eye hominy moreover six kinds of pickles preserves jellies and jams besides stewed pears apple pie pecans and various fruits then mrs jacob smothers the club hostess came in to say that if anybody in the future craved anything special shed try to fix it up and wondered why such of her gorged guests as too tar far gone uttered feeble laughter IRVIN S COBB copyright Ser service vico |