Bill Nye and Boomerang: Or, The Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary GemsNye, Bill
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Bill Nye and Boomerang: Or, The Tale of a Meek-Eyed Mule, and Some Other Literary Gems
Nye, Bill
American wit and humor
|M. E. Post, M. C., of Cheyenne, will please accept our thanks for an
indestructible pumpkin pie, presented on the 9th inst. It is the most
durable pie that we ever wrestled with. Probably it was not picked early
enough and got too ripe. It is the first genuine cane-bottomed pie, with
patent dust damper and nickle-plated movement that we have tasted since
we came west. He says it was raised on the Laramie plains. If this be
true, we have opened up before us another resource of which we may be
justly proud. We have valuable marble quarries, but marble may be
cracked and broken. We also have mountains of iron and leads of valuable
quartz, but all these must yield to the superior strength of man. This
style of pie, however, will defy the power of mortal ingenuity, and
withstand the effacing finger of time. Men may come and men may go but
this pie will last forever. We make bold to say that when Gabriel sounds
the proclamation that time is no more, this blasted pie will stand up
without a blush and say: "Here, Gabriel, is where you get your nice,
fresh pie, and don't you forget it, either."
AN ANTI-MORMON TOWN.
|A Mormon missionary turned himself loose in Rawlins the other night and
attempted to proselyte the good people into getting another invoice of
wives to assist in taking off the chill of the approaching winter; but
there was a feeling in the audience that the man who represented the
church of the Latter Day Saints was a little off in addressing them,
so they went to a dealer in old and rare antiquities and purchased some
eggs that had a smell which is peculiar to eggs that have yielded to the
infirmities of age.
The Rawlins people raised the windows on the sides of the building and
broke eleven and one-half dozen out of a possible twelve dozen of these
eggs, which had been coined in the year of the great crash. It was the
year when so many hens were not feeling well; they broke them against
the brass collar button of the orator, and they ran down in graceful
little brooklets and rivulets and squiblets and driblets overleven and
one-half dozen out of a possible twelve dozen of these eggs, which had
been coined in the year of the great crash. It was the year when so many
hens were not feeling well; they broke them against the brass collar
button of the orator, and they ran down in graceful little brooklets and
rivulets and squiblets and driblets over his white lawn tie and boiled
shirt.
Rawlins is not strictly a Mormon town, and the lecturer who took some
clothes through in a valise the other day bound for Evanston, where he
could get them washed, was arrested by a New York detective who was sure
he had at last caught the man who had Stewart's body.
A CHRISTMAS RIDE IN JULY.
|I've just returned from a long ride to the Soda Lakes.
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