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Yawk, he drap dat drap o' watah fum de Pacific Ocean into de Atalantic Ocean.
"Den he walk back dem three thousand miles to San Francisco, agin. He don' fly. He don' run. He dop' hop. He jus' walk, slow-lak an' easy. When he git to San Francisco he pick up one mo' drap o' watah out'n de Pucific Ocean, an' he start back fo' New Yawk. Drap by drap, sistern an' bredern, dat li'l jay-bird he finish de job he done start. He don' fly. He don' run. He don' hop. He jus' walk, back an' fo'th, slow-lak an' easy. He ca'y dat watah fum de West to de East, fum de Pucific to de Atalantic, drap by drap, in he li'l beak. FIe ca'y hit fum de Pucific Ocean, an'he drap hit into de Atalantic Ocean.
"Dat li'l jay-bird he emtpy de hull Pucific Ocean inter de Atalantic Ocean. Drap by drap he walk three thousand miles an' he empty a ocean so big dat if'n you wuz to empty de hull Mississippi Rivah inter it, hit would be jus' lak you or me spittin' inhit. He did'n fy. He did'n run. He did'n hop. He jus' walk, easy-lak, till he empty de Pucific Ocean, drap by drap.
"An' when he done finish dat job, bredern an' sistern, HIT AIN'T SUN-UP IN HELL. YIT."
Change of Name
Trinidad Redwood Company, manufacturers of Redwood with mill at Klamath, Del Norte County, have changed their name to Klamath-California Redwood Company.
J. M. Chartrand is in charge of the company's San Francisco office.
W. D. Dunning, formerly with Hammond & Little River Redwood Co., is Southern California representative, with headquarters in Los Angeles.
Buifding Officials Conler ence Annual Meeting
The Eleventh Annual meeting of the Pacifi'c Coast Building Offi,cials Conference will be held at Monterey, Calif., from August 23 to 26, 1933. Among business matters to be discussed will be revisions in the Uniform Code, and David H. Merrill, Managing Secretary-Treasurer, urges all members to attend the meeting.