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About Talent news. (Talent, Or.) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1894)
SOUVENIR SPOONS. A party of English tourists were com ing from the Yosemite last week, when A friend of mins poor callow yet ;th - one of them, who had oeen dubbed the Was mar ried yesternight. ; interrogation point of the crowd, espied And I went to the obspipiies a | air of brogans sticking in the face of Ami watched the mournful rite. the bluff, lees down. Nudging the coach driver, who chanced to be old Bill Mc- And strolling around with gloomy Clenathan, he asked: “Ah, driver, I won- thought— dah what the dcose those boots are doing For he had been mv friend up theah?" Old Bill scarcely looked up I came upon the wedding gifts as he replied: “That’s a man buried up Kind friends Lad thought to send. there, and the boys were in such a hurry that they’ did not dig deep enough to get Upon a table they’ were laid, his feet in." “Bah Jawve, that’s very All clustered in a ring; strange, yeknau.^ I ll make a note of Full seven dozen souvenir spoons that. But I say, driver, the toes point And not another thing. down. He must he buried on his face, There were Boston, Lynn and Salem dy’e know?” “Yes,” said old Bill, mus ingly, “he was an Irishman.” “But spoons, what’s his being an Irishman got to do And spoons of Squantumville, And spoons from Squedunk and Cohoes, with his being buried with hid face down?" asked the now thoroughly’ aroused Brit Snag's Patch and Jones’ Mill. isher. Old Bill looked at him in a pity And souvenirs of George Washington, ing manner for some seconds, and then, in a tone fid', of deep sorrow’ and aston- And Noah and the ark, ifehment at the tourist’s ignorance, , said: And Eve, and Grover Cleveland too, “U ».•it, do you see, wo ve got a sort of And Moses in the dark. siqc.81.tion out this way that on election And 1 wept a wet and liquid tear. day every dead Irishman gets out of his And I said within mv heart, | grave and votes, and so lately we’ve got “What could a marriage do but fail to hurrying them on the top of the hill. W ith such a dismal start?" I co down, so that the more the corpse I tries to dig (»ut the deeper begets down." ( For much I doubt, as married life ‘ Uh, yes, I see,” said the Englishman Wears off its gloss with years, gravely, “I ll make a note of that for mv That the thought of spoons such pleas s- book.” —-Ex ure gives ----- » • « ;--- — As to warrant souvenirs. • A blue cross on the margin < f - Boston Courier. the paper indicates that your subscript!« n has expired. A prompt renewal cheereth ye editor muchly. r\ '.I n V ’I \ ’ -4 r ’ It i '-T • ^7 ■ S. S a IMULI’ kA ’ ' * « îc »S.WEM îrks - / COPYRIGHTS.l-.> <AV I OBTAIN A IWTIATf Fori y j I I N \ rij <••>, • ‘ r ’ ”” ,l" ( <|_, vu. I, ti . in . • • tu tl<>- « on tly . ,r forii r.t luti c ' • (I ||. A Illi filli, noi, . f h.. I'nlrnts i t. I bin to ob. n Iti’ ti t b«*m ft • Al ■ » r?,f 'G« ul iHvvhiUâ« IC « i f Hl' A *4 ut h <’. I' it* t ,! ■ ri tin ... h Mt -.'i A Co. tec. *. il »!• • I.. th. ■ ■ I. ( i !j>- A I Kiui. .'nJ It.ui v.> l.r> .'it « |. f, . -r • .h- I iil.li.-»».tj. • »' i »• h « r. I » J"'1 ^i W'M'klr, fi,. i.tlyillu « by (ur I be I ' ' ' ' >'■ I. ... .'I!. ■, » ' . . » th« * ri'l. *» J a «• ,r. bon i . t«t It itMir>w F lit on. inouïi>|y, ; -ir. » ' .’f. ? -nr’e I t « m*. 5 f ' I ■«. t fui f . f.I », in F.i la ). » 11 • tn I in » ■ r . •, n>l II I n»«r « O. pl .’I«. < nii,'lii „■ _ l>uii<i — . ( . t' l'mr <{.« t «' , .nifi e . -r- MIAN i, CO, * DEALER IN «»pin-m writ* to .ri, tilt » » •<. c ,’t ïultU, JGI ’(• ka I< »T. CENTF.’AL POINT FLOUR and FEED. TALENT, OKEGON.