Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1904 — UNDER TUB BAMBOOZLE TREE. [ARTICLE]

UNDER TUB BAMBOOZLE TREE.

An astonishing sbrnb Is the bamboosle bush, ss it grows In the summer-time weather; For its frait starts to ripen as soon as the spring has escaped from her worrisome tether. And from then till late autum there fall from its boughs such a crop ’tia amazing to see— Let us stand for awhile where the thlnga may be teen as they drop from the bamboozle tree. There's the iceman who cornea with his bamboozle weight, and the fizzman bamboozling the kid By supplying him soda tbat'a half an Inch deep’ neath a seven-inch, bubble-form-ed lid; There’s the lager beer merchant purveying his froth to a bamboozled lot such aa we— These are only a few of the fruits that are, borne by this wonderful bamboozle tree. There's the shrewdf ummer boarder bamboozling the man who is rnral in tastes and in training, By becoming indebted a hundred or more and from needful remittance refraining; There's the Reuben who knows vastly more than you'd think and who captures the sharper—for he Has a use of his own that he makes of the fruit that is shed by the bamboozle tree. There’s the smooth politician who lives on the dream that he's surely bamboozling the voters With his gab and his graft, till he finds in the end he’s been badly bamboozled by "floaters;” There’s the weather man sagely bamboozling ua all with his illy aimed guesses, while he Safely squats on a limb and dispenses the fruit that he finds on the bamboozle tree. So we sit'neath the bows of the bamboozle bush that in summer-time flourishes madly. And we gorge on the fruit that decends from its limbs though it nauseates ail of us sadly. There is scarcely a soul 'neath Its world-shad-ing top but is daily bamboozled—you see Such an endless assortment of fruitage is borne bv the versatile bambooozle tree. —Strickland W. Gillilan in Leslie's Weekly.