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n. y. Did you ever stop to think how much you own of your city parks & city hall, & you wont own much of eether if you live heer i can tell you that rite kwick. Sunday pop & me beet it over to central park, which is a very nice plase & we sat down on the grass where it was purty cool & shadey. pop, i ast him, who owns this park he says to me, my boy, we the pee pel & as a part of the manny mill iuns of this grate city, Johny, we have a rite to consider ourselves part own ers it is a glorious feetshure of our form of guvurnment, johny, that we. the peepel of our city are absolute & never forget that the will of the pee pel is the supreme law and there aint no king nor anny body like him to tell us where we get off at that is purty nise, pop, i said to him, being as you & me owns part of this park lets play catch with my ball heer for awhile all rite, pop says, & we started to toss the ball up for about 3 minits when a cop comes hoofing it over & hollering to beet the band get offen the grass, he told us, or i will run you in pop never said nuthing until i ast him pop, i told him, that feller dident know we owned a part of the park but pop dident say nothing, only bought me some peenuts & popcorn & candy. NEW DIVERSION There was a candy-biting at Lee Brown's Saturday night and quite a large crowd attended. Stone Cout, Ark., Record. AIN'T NATURE WONDERFUL Unnatural History by Eugene Ahern The Cop No, children, you don't have to walk on your tiptoes to keep from waking it up. The difference) be tween a cop and a bear is that the bear sleeps in winter but the cop sleeps the four seasons through. Before it becomes a cop the" co coon has to pass a rigid physical ex amination. It has to be perfect in every way except in eyesight, hear ing and'running. The cop is never around when lit tle things like a murder, holdup or a fight occur, but when something terrible happens, like a couple of newsboys matching pennies, he'a right there like clam soup. The next time there's a parade study the cop and see how his chest sticks out as he struts up and down the street keeping the masses on the sidewalk. Never answer back a cop or try to explain something to him when he nabs you, because no mat ter how right you are, you're wrong. o o AN OPPORTUNE TIME Robbie, for his misdeeds, waa about to get a thrashing. He left his mother's room and" went to his own. Kneeling down beside his bed and with hands clasped, he offered up the following prayer: "Please, God, if You are as good to little children as they say You are, now's your chance."