OLD FAITHFUL 



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Qlijapiev O. 



OLD FAITHFUL 



HAVE purposely forborne to say 

 much about geysers until we had 

 made our bow to Old Faithful, 

 the finest of them all. I saw 

 it first in company with a fat 

 man from Tennessee. The fat 

 man had lunched at the Fountain without seeing 

 its geysers. He did not believe in them. He 

 was not afraid of them. He was not only con- 

 temptuous, but even disrespectful. He had seen 

 the President in eruption. Heard him talk to a 

 Tennessee congressman who wanted an undesir- 

 able citizen appointed to a federal office, and no 

 ''geezer" could scare him. No, sir; he wouldn't 

 be afraid to go right up and shake hands with 'em. 



