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THE FOCUS "A
horse chestnut
as far
is
as a saw horse, clothes Wif fie- trees, boot-trees,
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removed from horses
horse,
are as out of place in the
woods
horse
or a
hall- trees,
radish.
and family
trees
a a fish story, a mackerel sky, or a crabapple in the water. "Perhaps all of you may remember the country Summer Pastoral, which was written by a learned but city-bred scholar from knowledge derived from etymological deductions, rather than from actual He was an advocate of the back-to-theexperience. land movement and sang: as a railway frog,
fish plate,
"I
would
fly
from the
city's rule
and law,
From its fashion and form cut loose, And go where the strawberry grows on
its
straw,
And
the gooseberry on the goose;
Where the catnip tree is climbed by As she crouches for her prey, The guileless and unsuspecting rat
On
the cat,
the rattan bush at play."
HE TOOK NO CHANCES Mr. McGuire
—
(to hospital attendant)
did ye say the doctor's
— "Phwat
did
name was?"
Attendant "Doctor Kilpatrick." Mr. McGuire "That settles it. No doctor wid that cognomen can get a chance to operate on me not if I know it." Attendant "Why not?" Mr. McGuire "Well, you see my name is Patrick.'
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A—What does ridicule mean? S—A ridicule is something you put sewing in. AT THE BALL GAME "Dearie, what is that man running for?" "He just hit the ball." "I know, but is he required to chase it too?"
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