. A tenderfoot in southern California . so darned home-sick youd give your old trunk if youhadnt bought your ticket East. You dont want to go home—youwant to stay! And when the train pulls out forback east, and youre on it, bgosh,theres something inside of you thatbegins to swell up like a sponge, asyou look out of the car window andsee the flowers and orange groves slip-ping by. 149 A TENDERFOOT You are only beginning to realizeyou are leaving it all, and may nevercome back again. Sure, Bill, a mans a fool to cry,but Id a dropped a few tears if Ihadnt blown em out through mynose. And let me a
. A tenderfoot in southern California . so darned home-sick youd give your old trunk if youhadnt bought your ticket East. You dont want to go home—youwant to stay! And when the train pulls out forback east, and youre on it, bgosh,theres something inside of you thatbegins to swell up like a sponge, asyou look out of the car window andsee the flowers and orange groves slip-ping by. 149 A TENDERFOOT You are only beginning to realizeyou are leaving it all, and may nevercome back again. Sure, Bill, a mans a fool to cry,but Id a dropped a few tears if Ihadnt blown em out through mynose. And let me add. Bill, as I am tak-ing one last look out of the car win-dow, at the fast disappearing, familiarsights I have learned to love, like anative born—let me add, God neverfashioned another such wondrousspot, on the entire surface of this oldearth. There is only one real land of sun-shine and its out here where the sungoes down. THE END. p 4 THE NBW YORK ^^RENCE Z^^L° BRARY ^^ booJr ; DEPARTMENT IS Under^«^en froJ:.rr^^*«-ees to %
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