Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-09-06

cr5w's tongue wen the varmint is young
itll Earn 20 talk ez glib ez a lightnin' rod
peddleri but wuther ye know 1t or not.
It's 50. So wen these two got q leetle
older / clipped their wings an slit their
tongues. WANT long fore them crows
KID talk a streak, an in six months-Jee-
whizzl but they was corkersi They got
to handlin stage driver and bark peeler
talk ruther easy, too, an vile that made
their conversation O leetle sparklin Tor
ordinary ev'ry day business bout Sugar
Swamp, it were a leetle on the nutmeg
crater order wen the dominic were to.
our house to dinner on Sunday. One
Sunday, | member, my m took
Ebenezer an Hanner-that was the
names / give the crows-an' put en-!
outen the house, they was so onpolita,
but that made 'em mad, an they flew
fust to n winder an then to another.
an hollered in at the dominic setch
warm advice tht If he'd ha' followed ii
he'd a gone on the double quick to a
place he'd ben a warnin' the most o.
Sugar Swamp deestric' away from fer
nigh onter twenty years.
zone evenin' me an my nanny was
settin' ia the kitchen, peelin' apples.
Ebenezer an Hammer was discussin' to-
gether over in corner. / were goin
on to 10 then, an were tlinkin' a good
deal Of q gal named Polly Tdbbs. Ny
nanny didn't like Polly, an I'd ruther
la took the wust kipd Of a lickin' thin
th't she sh'd hear tht | had a notion fer
tho gal. Bimeby Hammer she hoped uY
on the back of a cheer, an cockin' her
head to one side she says to me:
"'Wha was you an Polly Tubbs .
sneakin' to las nighty
IAN yer pockets full Of mother
doughnuts, tooY' hollers Ebenczer I'm
the floor.
"'He's a sly unr says Hammer.
IAN his eyeteeth llain't hardly cut
yit, nutherl hollers Ebenezer.
"Wull, the truth O the matter were. !
had toll my nanny l were goin' to meet
in the night afore, but Std o that me
an Polly had gone to an apple cut at oil
Jake Slipe's; an l had took a lot o
mammy's doughnuts she'd ben bakin
for the dominie's donation. Want /
took back nor nuthin' at them tame
crows a-blurtin' out the hull BUSINESS
Jeewhizz! but l felt cheapl
+ "'Polly Tubbs. is itY says my nanny.
whangin' me 1ongside the ear. You Just
Polly Tubbs OF to bed, an let me ever
hear o you an that creatur' agin; that's
air
"'Goo1 night, Silasr hollered Hammer,
ez dug fer bed.
"'Slecp tightF yells Ebenezer.
AN wat does them crows do the next
day but go over to Polly's an tell her
th't | got my ears boxed an sent to bed
for goin' to the apple cut with her; an
Polly she jist gives me the mitten dead
Tor Bill Sliverl
AN SO ev'ry day, an ov'ry night fer
that matter, them crows th't had inter
duced to spectacle society an made
sumpin' of, KEEP a playin' rigs on me an
q Lnockin' all my plans in tho head. But
l contcnded with en-. an crowd; an
wen one night durin' pertracted meetin
Hammer n n Ebcnezer sneaked in unbe-
known to anybody, an vile Decon Skin
nor were cxhortin', ez solemn ez solemn
L pe an tears III MS eyes, jumped up
on a scat an sung He's a jolly good
Teller at the topo' their lungs, an Brother
Wacker carried 'em out IN wrung both
O. their necks, jist said to myself that
after Twin through them same crows !
guessed KID cheer up ngin most any
hing. But, Peleg, didn't think / were
gointcr live to hev a gran'son who'd
lay awake o nights u wondcrin' an a
thinkin' up things all by hisself, ev'ry
n on EN- a s%inivation agin his poor oil
gran'pop. didn't think that. an I'll go
to bed now a-thinl1in', b'gosh, how wus-
ser thin two tame crows it is to hev n
siniwatin' childl"-Ed Mott in New York
Sun.