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Amateur Correspondent, v. 2, issue 2, September-October 1937
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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1937 15 A rabbit, transfixed with fright, crouched pitifully against a tree-bole. Heedless of the rising stream below it, its eyes darted about at every flash in an effort to find its young ones. Then the bank crumbled noiselessly and vanished. The soaked ground gave a sudden lurch, cracks spreading rapidly over its surface. Clouds of steam filled the air as teeming rain met the hot fires of the underworld. Rabbits, foxes, birds---all those tiny things which lay trembling in the forest depths---rushed headlong into the storm, while behind them age-old trees shook, swayed, and fell to the heaving ground. The solemn blue-eyed men sheltered in the towers of their cities broke into frantic mobs as their buildings tottered around them. Silently, they perished. Yet another earthquake, and the thunder echoed with a deep organ-note about a crashing terrain. Forests, meadows, lakes, with an interlacing of littered masonry, mixed in horrible confusion as the very surface-crust flowed. Chasms widened, and the glowing hell that was revealed became instantly veiled in scalding vapour. The rain still fell. Zeus above! The mountains were falling, subsiding. And the sea---the sea swept in upon a defenceless land, a titanic, rolling, gray wall of water, white at the billowing crests with creaming foam! It moved on irresistibly, engulfing town and trees and earth---on---and on----- The men had gone---that noble race, the flower of the world, of whom even the memory was soon to be lost. Gone they were, and with them all the other living things that had made their country so fruitful. The roars of the dying land were smothered---faded to silence; and there was only the sound of the raging storm and the falling rain---falling over a tossing, landless expanse of water. For this had been Atlantis; and was no more. A STINGY MAN A man was too stingy to subscribe to the Amateur Correspondent, so he sent his son to borrow a copy from his neighbor. In his haste, the boy overturned a $4.00 hive of bees, and he soon resembled a warty squash. His father ran to his aid, and not noticing a barbedwire fence, ran into it, pulled it down, cut himself, and ruined a $4.00 pair of trousers. The cow went through the hole he had made in the fence and killed herself eating corn. The wife, hearing the commotion, ran out; and in doing so, stumbled over a churn of cream, which overturned upon a basket of kittens, killing them all. The baby, left alone, crawled through the cream into the parlor, ruining a $24.00 carpet. The dog broke up eleven setting hens. The eldest daughter ran away with the hired man; and the calf got out and ate the tails off four shirts on the line. And all this because the man did not have his own copy of the Amateur Correspondent and tried to borrow one. MORAL: Don't be stingy; send in your subscription now....!!!!
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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1937 15 A rabbit, transfixed with fright, crouched pitifully against a tree-bole. Heedless of the rising stream below it, its eyes darted about at every flash in an effort to find its young ones. Then the bank crumbled noiselessly and vanished. The soaked ground gave a sudden lurch, cracks spreading rapidly over its surface. Clouds of steam filled the air as teeming rain met the hot fires of the underworld. Rabbits, foxes, birds---all those tiny things which lay trembling in the forest depths---rushed headlong into the storm, while behind them age-old trees shook, swayed, and fell to the heaving ground. The solemn blue-eyed men sheltered in the towers of their cities broke into frantic mobs as their buildings tottered around them. Silently, they perished. Yet another earthquake, and the thunder echoed with a deep organ-note about a crashing terrain. Forests, meadows, lakes, with an interlacing of littered masonry, mixed in horrible confusion as the very surface-crust flowed. Chasms widened, and the glowing hell that was revealed became instantly veiled in scalding vapour. The rain still fell. Zeus above! The mountains were falling, subsiding. And the sea---the sea swept in upon a defenceless land, a titanic, rolling, gray wall of water, white at the billowing crests with creaming foam! It moved on irresistibly, engulfing town and trees and earth---on---and on----- The men had gone---that noble race, the flower of the world, of whom even the memory was soon to be lost. Gone they were, and with them all the other living things that had made their country so fruitful. The roars of the dying land were smothered---faded to silence; and there was only the sound of the raging storm and the falling rain---falling over a tossing, landless expanse of water. For this had been Atlantis; and was no more. A STINGY MAN A man was too stingy to subscribe to the Amateur Correspondent, so he sent his son to borrow a copy from his neighbor. In his haste, the boy overturned a $4.00 hive of bees, and he soon resembled a warty squash. His father ran to his aid, and not noticing a barbedwire fence, ran into it, pulled it down, cut himself, and ruined a $4.00 pair of trousers. The cow went through the hole he had made in the fence and killed herself eating corn. The wife, hearing the commotion, ran out; and in doing so, stumbled over a churn of cream, which overturned upon a basket of kittens, killing them all. The baby, left alone, crawled through the cream into the parlor, ruining a $24.00 carpet. The dog broke up eleven setting hens. The eldest daughter ran away with the hired man; and the calf got out and ate the tails off four shirts on the line. And all this because the man did not have his own copy of the Amateur Correspondent and tried to borrow one. MORAL: Don't be stingy; send in your subscription now....!!!!
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