. Colonel Crockett's co-operative Christmas. do it again. You rememberArtemus Wards man who had beendead three weeks and liked , thats me. This camping outin New York is getting to be a sending you a bundle of news-paper clippings as big as a stovepipe—all about Yours Truly. As soon as I saw that circumstances had organized a pool to corner me and my Christmases, 1 spent a couple37 ® ■ w C®l]®3rii®n (Ci?®cfe®tlGl) ■«> of days sending up rain-making lan-guage. Then 1 settled down to worklike a bronco does to harness afterkicking off the dashboard and snap-ping a couple of tra
. Colonel Crockett's co-operative Christmas. do it again. You rememberArtemus Wards man who had beendead three weeks and liked , thats me. This camping outin New York is getting to be a sending you a bundle of news-paper clippings as big as a stovepipe—all about Yours Truly. As soon as I saw that circumstances had organized a pool to corner me and my Christmases, 1 spent a couple37 ® ■ w C®l]®3rii®n (Ci?®cfe®tlGl) ■«> of days sending up rain-making lan-guage. Then 1 settled down to worklike a bronco does to harness afterkicking off the dashboard and snap-ping a couple of traces. If Ive got to be alone this Christ-VVij^ mas, I says to myself, Ill make itthe gol-blamedest, crowdedest soli-tude ever heard of this side of theRiver. I looked for the biggest place intown under one roof. MadisonSquareGarden was it. You remember was there to the Horse Show—so-called. You recollect, I reckon,that the Garden holds right smart ofpeople. At a political meeting oncethey got 14,000 people into it, and y. iH there was still room for Grover Cleve-land to stand and make a speech. Well, feeling kind o flush andrecklesslike, I decided to go and seethe manager, or janitor, or whateverhe is. And go I did. I says to him:Could I rent your cute little shackfor one evening—Christmas night ? Certainly, sir, he says. Therehappens to be nothing doing thisChristmas. How much would it set meback? I says very polite. Only one thousand plunks, sayshe smiling. But, my dear Gaston, I says with a low bow, 1 dont want to buy your little Noahs Ark for the39 l€fi
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