The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-12-21

not much bigger than you and DE-
twice as much work, and a good dea
OF it needlessly, too. People wake
up in the morning and get up ant
shake up their beds and dress up
and wash up and draw up to the
table, and eat up and drink up theil
breakfast. Then they Jump up from
the table and hurry up to go up tc
the corner, where the street car driver
pulls up his horses and the passengers
ascend up the steps and go up into
the front seats and the conductor
takes up the tickets. All this is done
even before people get up town and
take up their days work. From that
time until they put up their books and
shut up their offices l do more work
than any two words in this book; and
even after business hours l am worked
until people lock up their houses and
go up to bed and cover themselves up
and shut up their eyes for the night.
1t would take week to tell what l
have to put up with in a day, and I
am good deal worked up over it."
81 agree that both Up and OF are
very much overworked, said the word
Stated, '.but think myself deserve a
little sympathy. am doing not only
my own legitimate work, but also that
which ought to be done by my friend
Said. Nobody says anything nova
days; he always states it"
YES" Clipped in the funny little
word Pun, ''these are very stately
times.n
Some of the words laughed at this,
but humor said: PUN is a simple
ton"
"No," answered Wit; "he is fellow
of Duplicates
He makes me tired" said Slang.
Then the discussion was resumed.
II do great deal of needless work, )"
said the word But. "People say they
have no doubt, but that it will rain,
and that they shouldn't wonder but
what it would snow. until 1 don't
know 'but' | shall strike"
what I have most to complain
about" said the word AS, lis that l
am forced to associate so much with the
word Equally. Only yesterday man
said he could see equally as. well as
another man. don't see what bust
ness Equally had in that sentence.
"Well," retorted Equally, '.men
every day say that something is
equally as good as something else,
and / don't see what business AS has
in that sentence"
II think" said Propriety, "you two
should be divorced by mutual con-
sent"
There was futtering sound and a
clamor of voices.
81 suffer considerably from this same
kind of neglect" said the word Deem.
Nobody ever deems thing beauti-
full any more; it is always considered
beautiful, when in fact it is not con-
sidered at ALL"
True" said Irritate, sand people
talk of being aggravated when they
ought instead to give me work"
''And me-" said Purpose. 'look at
me. get hardly a thing to do because
people are always proposing to do
this or that when no idea of a PROPOSE
ton is involved. Why read the 9TH
er day of a man who had proposed to
murder another when really he had
never said word about it to a living
being. OF course he only purposed to
commit the murder"
at is my turn" said the word
Among. II should like to protest
against Mr.. Between doing my work.
The idea OF people saying a man divid-
ed an orange between his three
children! 1t humiliates me-
at ia no worse" said the word Few
err, ''than to have people say there
were less men ia one army than in
another"
mo" added More Than, "and no
worse than to have them say there
were over 1O!, 900 men,"
at seems 20 me-" said the word
Likely, .'that nobody has more reason
for complaint than have. My friend
Liable is doing nearly all my work.
They say a man is liable to be sick, or
liable to be out of town, when the
question of liability does not enter in
to the matter at ALL"
You're no worse off than / am"
said the little word So; '.that fellow
Such is doing all my work. People
say there never was such a glorious
country as this, when, of course they
mean there never was so glorious a
country elsewhere"
l saw that there was likely to be no
end to this discussion, since half the
words in the dictionary were making
efforts to put in their complaints, SO 1
returned to my couch; and will leave
it to any person who has read this ac-
count to say whether l had not already
heard enough to make me or anybody
else sleeny -Washiu oton Post