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Show 266 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. graceful speech, under the apple trees-they called it." -a surprise party, THE CHROMO. Judge Felton, who was turning the leaves of Mr. Rudd's scrap book, said, " I will read you the reply to that speech as I find it here: "'Friends, Fellow Citizens and Members of the Fruit Eating Club: As we have met on this anniversary occasion to commemorate an eventful event, which has long since passed into history, and is filed away among the archives of forgotten statesmen, I think it proper that we should celebrate the occasion with ceremonies commensurate with its individual and national importance. The cordial response you have given to the sub rosa invitation you received to give me a surprise, has caused my feelings to go junketing to the ethereal realms of estatic idiocy, (where I feel it unsafe to follow because of heart trouble,) in view of which you will please excuse me if, in the interim, I remain and look after my jeopardized fruit interest. |