Bob Stratton and a devil-may-care giant by the name of Nolan constructed a joke wherewith to amuse the interim.

They cut a long pole, and placed it across a log and through a bush, so that one extremity projected beyond the bush.

Then diplomacy won a piece of meat from the cookee.

This they nailed to the end of the pole by means of a pine sliver.

The Canada jays gazed on the morsel with covetous eyes.