The Pig in a Poke 



The fair is over. Blue Island bars 

 are somewhat richer for its coming, 

 and a lot of people have got rid of 

 things they did not want or need, and 

 others are in possession of that which 

 they thought they wanted or needed 

 or could turn over at a profit, and no 

 middlemen have come between. Such 

 is the only rival the Union Stock 

 Yards or South Water Street has in 

 Cook County so far as I have seen. 

 I wonder when Mr. McAdoo may wish 

 to take it over. 



A bit of the old world transplanted 

 to the new, a bit of the past engrafted 

 on the present, this quaint recrudes- 

 cence of ancient commerce on the 

 Little Calumet. Probably it will dis- 

 appear shortly. Soon also will the 

 little stream near by find its accus- 

 tomed course reversed, and Lake 

 Michigan's waters pouring westward 

 through its bed between great walls of 

 stone. 



