Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-06-01
WANTED TO TALK.

WANTED TO TALK.
Boy.
Goodnight, papa" said the bow. 90
Ing into his room.
Goodnight said the boys father,
as he turned out the gas and got into
bed
'Are you tired. papaq' asked the boy
alphabetically.
Tired enough to go to sleep, any
way" said the father.
That's good" said the boy. '.It's q
great thing to be SO you can go to sleep
as quick as you get to bed, isn't it?''
| Great indeed. answered the father,
drowsily.
What makes us 60 to sleep?"
Why, because we are tired, sup
pose, little impatiently. Then with
thought of the sympathy. 'Sleep is
necessary after the work of the day."
docs cow sleep?"
Certainly"
What makes women more afraid of
cows than men?'
Very likely because they are more
tlmld Women can't protect themselves
as well as men,"
Girls are just the same. They run
and yell at every little thing. I'm glad
am not girl, aren't you?"
Yes; am glad you are not a girl. {"
NO, l mean aren't you glad you are
not one"
YES"
III you were girl, you'd be my
mother, wouldn't you?'
II suppose I would
We'll l am glad you are not, for then
you couldn't show me how to make a
kite"
DO you want kite?''
Yes, but tomorrow will do lust as
we'll Who made the first kites, papa?'
The Chinese, 1 fancy"
The men in China fly kites, don't
they?'
There was no answer.
Don't they, papa?"
"Don't-er what was it?''
Don't the men in China fly kitesP"
yes"
''Are there any laundries in China,
papa?"
II don't know; guess not"
"Wen, how do the Cinnamon learn
how to wash?"
"Pm sure don't know
"The Chinaman down at the laundry
has got tidile. He can't play very
well. Did you ever try to learn to play
on a fiddle?"
mo"
81 don't want to learn. I'd rather
learn TO play banjo. Did the negroes
play on banjo first?"
'Yes," desperately
'Who taught them how to make itp"
81 don't know. guess it came nat
urally."
What makes them black?"
What, the banjos?"
mo, of course not, the negroes"
The coioring matter in their skin Is
different from ours'
'Ds they ever tan mems skin?"
Boys skin is sometimes tanned"
with deep meaning.
'Oh, l don't mean that kind of tan
ming. That's strap oil, isn't itq"
81 guess So"
whats hair oil made of ?'
Bears grease, I've read"
IF l could kill bear when 1 90 I'D
into the Adirondacks on my vacation I
could get lot of hair oil, couldn't I?,
II suppose So"
"Will go the Friday school closes?"
81 don't know"
"Oh, papa, 1 want you to help me do
an example, This is the way it goes:
Twenty men dig a ditch fifteen and
two-thirds feet wide and two hundred
and thirty wards long in two and three
fourths weeks, working nine hours a
day; fifteen men dig ditch twenty
three feet wide and two hundred and
ninety rods long in three weeks work.
ing how many hours day?' How do
you do that?'
No answer.
How do you do that, papa?"
''Er-do what?"
DO that example"
what example?''
''Why, that one I've just told you.
don't believe you know a word I've
been saying" !
Yes, do; you were telling about
that Chinaman playing fiddle"
''Christopher! That was two or three |
hours ago. We've talked about a lot |
of things since.''
Have we? Wen, my son." said the |
boys father, raising himself on his |
elbow and 10 king through the dark
ness into the other room, 1--WE won't |
talk about any more tonight; we began
with sleep and l guess we had better
end with that Good-nightr'
'Good-night!' said the boy, ''but 1
wish you'd tell me where to begin with
that example. IN Y. Times.