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About Talent news. (Talent, Or.) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1894)
El GENE FJ FID'S FIRM LOVE THE DUEL. SONG. The gingham dog and ca’ieo cat Side by side on the table sat; Sw»-< ¿heart, be my sweetheart ,Twas half-past twelve, and. what d When bird« are on the wing. you think W hen bee and bud and babbling flood Neither of them had slept a wink! lb -p<ik the birth of sj ring; And the old dutch clock and Chines« Come. sweetheart, I m ? my sweetheart plate Ami wear this posy-ring! Seemed to know, as sure as fate. There was going to be an awful spat. Sweetheart, be my sweetheart (I wasn’t there I simply state In the mellow golden glow What was told to me by the Chiiitst Of earth a Hush with the gracious blush plate.) Which the ripening fields foreshow; The gingham dog went /bow’-wow- Hear sweetheart, be my sweetheart, wow! ’’ As into the moon we go! And the calico cat replied Tur-ow!" Sweetheart, be my sweetheart And the air was streaked for and hour When falls the bounteous year, or so When fruit and wine of tree and vine With fragments of gingham and calico. Give us their harvest cheer; W hile the old Dutch clock in chim Oh, sweetheart, be my sweetheart, ney-place For winter it drdweth near. Up with its hands before its face. For it always dreaded a family row! Sweetheart, be mv sweetheart (Now mind, I’m simply telling you When the year io white and old. What the old Dutch clock de< lares is When the fire of youth is spent, for true.) sooth, The Chinese plate looked very blue And the hand of age is cold; -And wailed: “Oh, dear! what shall we Yet, sweetheart, be my sweetheart Till the year of our love be told! do!” . But the gingnam dog and the calico cat Wallowed this way and tumbled that And utilized every tooth and claw FRANK HASTY, In the awfulest way you ever saw N otary P ublic , And, oh! how the gingham and calico Agent for the following In'umnce(’em- flew! (Don’t think that 1 exaggerate paniee : : : : : ; I got my news from the Chimte T ie NORTH BRITISH and MER- plate.) CHANT1LE I nsi rance Co. or LON- Next morning, where the two bad rat PON and EDINBURGH, | * 1 ' ! ; They found no trace of the d< g or cat: And some folks think unto this day i | NEW YORK LIFE and the | ; That burglars stole that pair away; STANDARD LIFE and ACCIDENT But the truth about that cat and pi p <’o. or I >!.i mu r Ifi that they ate each other up • • O ffice at the Now what do you really think of that? ( I he old I hitch clock, it told me s« i . NT Wb S I A N D, And that is how I came to know.) Ami and , O regon . Eugene Fii hl m < ’hicago lb mid. 9 9 9 I