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WMn, nun, an airship upward aped
With all, the birds that I had bred!
They sailed straight for the evening star
And quick were lost, mid worlds afar.
I telephoned at once to Mars
For cops to watch the aerial cars.
Then upward to the moon I Soared
To tack my offer of reward.
Then on the sun I took my stand
Because it is the center, grand.
sent the, universe iriy clews
And waited anxiously for news.
came, first from Cook's
"Tick! Tick!"
north pole.
"Are you the man
stole?"
Old Roarer Borealis said
"He heard hens squawking overhead."
whose 'hens were
Then Venus sent her CB Q,
"I hear strange roosters crowing too."
And Saturn ticked along the tune,
"Your bene are roosting on the moon.'*
Then Jupiter sent in the call:
"We just heard a tat rooster fall.
It's raining Shanghai roosters here.
Those thieves are wrecked, greatly
fear."
And, sure enough, in Milky way
I'hey met mad Taurus, gone astray.
They flew so quickly through the air
That friction made them dust somewhere.
But now, since men wear Cupid wings,
Airships are old, forgotten things.
My watchdog flies so swift and far.
He even licked Neptune's dog star.
C. M. BARNITZ.
THE PIGEON TICK.
If you find a brown oval .bug with
its head fast to a pigeon, don't pull it
off. It's head will remain.and cause a
bad sore.
