The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-25
HIS FIRST SMOKE.
Georgia Is Persuaded to Try Pipe aud
Wishes Ee Was Dead After 1t.


deer editur-laist mite j was most ded.
! i Jest praid that wood die. but gawd
dident ansir mi prair an da fele better,
SO am glad that gawd dldent anslr mi
prair
| jest wish tho that mi ma & pa wood a
! litel moir kinder 2 me. thay seed how
sick wos an thay dident fele bit sorri
me an sed it served me rite cause wos six.
this is how it al happinid.
! met bill
an he sed
! gorgie, u with me.
! ov coss bill node i was with him cause
was standin by him, but that is oni slang,
| an wen eni l says with me thay meme
will 20 in a SCENE, so wen bill sed with
! me sed yes.
! then sed wat is it.
| this, he sed, an he tux pipe out Of his
| pocket an paper of tobacker.
| wat do u meme, askld.
| WV, watts the matter with havin a smoke,
| he sed.
so sed am with u.
then we went barn an bill filled his
pipe an then give me 2 smoke. bill has
smokid 4 long time. never smokid IN
mi life.
wen he handed me the pipe full of tobacker.
now, sed bill, don't be a fule gorgie. yure
pa is sundi scool techer an he smokes SD
how can it b rong
| SO put the pipe in mi mouth an bill
| striked a match and commenced 2pull on
the pipe. the smoke tasted orful nasty an
| it choked me.
| how du u like it, gorgie, bill sed.
La ~ iu Sad 1 6a1t
like it bill wood laf an say was reglar
babi.
so went on smokin an smokin an bi &
bi commenced to fele like wood like
thro away the pipe, onli i was afrade ov bill
latin at me.
then hi & bi sed Q bill woodent smoke
| ami more caus dident want to impose on
his good natur bi takin his tobacker, but
bill sed not 2 mentin it, cause it dident cost
him ami thing cause he swiped it frum his
| pa.
| no, foolish boy wat was. i tux sum moir
/ tobacker an smoked sum IN bi an bi
! saw the walls of the barn commence 2 move
| round an felt ike mi he'd wood bust, sc
| lade down the pipe an tole bill woodent
| smoke ami moir sure, cause node was
| robin him ov his tobacker.
| bill tride 2 git me to smoke sum moir but
| rely coodent. way down in mi stomik it
felt like lot of peopul wos fitin, an then
got so six had 2 lay down. KEEP getin
worse an worse an thote wos dyin.
bill jonson, sed, j amt gone 2 live much
! longer. but wen take mi ded body home
don't tel mi ma and pa bote me smokin.
but)bil onli LATED an sed wood b al rite
in litel vile, an that if thot wos dyin
better be TUX home. so bill helped me get
on mi fete an got home.
heavings, gorgie, said ma wen got in
the house. wat maiks U SO pale-wats the
matir with child.
tried to make leve thay wosent not
the matir, but ma sed thay wos an sent
| doctor.
wen he cum he tole ma j had be n smokin.
then ma cride an sed wos a lost child
an that she dident think Good b so wicked
as smoke an that the best thing she Good
du wood be 2 send me a pennytentary.
iwoodent care if they sent me "a butcher
shop 2 b cut up sassige mete. iJest wishid
wood die. no, wos orful six.
then wen pa cum home he luked at me,
an he askid wat wos the matir. and ma sed
i had a he'd axe, cause she dident want him
no had been smokin.
but pa wos ded on. re lest coined over2
me an sed. wei, NV De a man dident
u. IL smoked, didn't U. how did u like it.
onli grOned.
. then pa got his pipe An fild it with missus
miIlers best an maid me smoke it, sayin,
men don't stop at pipe full ov tobacker u
| must haiv gud smoke. if u evir want
smoke agane tel me so, an kin haiv my
pipe.
if had been big man an wosent SO six
j wood haiv licked pa. / tride ask him
merci, but coodent speke- j jist ciosid
mi eyes an prsid gawd maik me gud
boy an let me die.
then went 9 sleap an next day / wos
better.
ipromicid ma wood nevir smoke agane
litel bov, nevir smoke, that is mi advise
if u must smoke haiv pistol with u, an
then wen u get sick kin xii yourself
l.