Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-04-14
HIS FIRST SMOKE.
Georgie Is Persuaded to Try Pipe an,
Wishes lie Was Dead After 1t.

George Is Persuaded to Try Il Pipe and
Wishes lie Was Dead After 1t.
deer editur-laist mite was most ded.
i jest praid that i wood die, but gawd
didemt ansir mi prair an = da fele better
so am glad that gawd dident ansir mi
prair.
jest wish tho that mi ma G. pa wood b a
litel mOir kinder = me. thay seed how
sick wos an thay dident fele u bit sorr 4
me an scd it served me rite cause wos six
this is how it al happind.
met bill
an he sed
gorgie, u with me.
ov coss bill node was with him cause
was standin by him, but that is onli slang
an wen eni says with me thay meme
vii Il go in q SCENE, so wen bill sed + u 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 Il menc aSkid.
wy, watts the matter with havin a smoke
he sed.
so sed am with u.
then we went barn an bill filled hi.
pipe an then give me 2 smoke. bill has
smokid long time. never smokid in
mi life.
no, bill, sed, amt it rong for me smoke
wen he handed me the pipe fal of tobackel'
now, sed bill, don't be Il fule gorgie. yurc
pa is sundi scool techer an he smokes Sc
how can it b rong.
so put the pipe in mi mouth an bill
striked Il match and commenced 2pull OIL
the pipe. the smoke tasted orful nasty an
it choked me.
how dn IL like it, gorgie, bill sed
no, it is fine, sci, cause if sed lident
like it bill wood laff an say was n reglal
babi
so went on smokin an smokin an bi s.
hi commenced to fele like wood like z
thro away the pipe, onli was afrade ov bill
latin at me.
then bi & hi sed bill i woodent smoke
ami more caus dident want to impose on
his good natur hi takin his tobacker, but
bill sed not 9 mentin it, cause it dident cost
him ami thing cause he swiped it frum his
pa.
no, foolish boy wat was, tux sum moi
tobacker an smoked sum moir, b an bi i
saw the walls of the barn comence move
a round an felt like mi he'd wood bust, SC
lade down the pipe an tole bill i woodent
smoke ami moir sure, cause node was
robin him ov his tobacker
bill tride git me to smoke sum moir but
i rely coodent way down in mi stomk it
felt like lot of peopul wos fltin an then i
got so six had 2 lay down. KEEP getin
worse an worse an thote wos dyin
bill jonson, sed, amt gone live much
longer. but wen IL take mi ded body home
don't tel mi ma and pa bote me smokin
but bill onli LATED an sed wood b al rite
in a litel vile, an that if thot wos dyin i
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 IL child
tried to make b leve thay wosent nothin
the matir, but ma sed thay wos an sent 4 n
doctor.
wen he cum he tole ma had BEEN smokn.
then ma cride an sed wos Il lost child
an that she dident think Good b so wicked
as smoke an that the best thing she Good
du wood be send me . pennytentary.
woodent care if they sent me a butcher
shop b cut up 4sassige mete. i jest 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
j had a he'd axe, cause she dident want him
no had been smokin.
but pa wos ded on. he Jest coined over Q
me an sed, wei, Il wantid be man dident
Il. Il smoked, didn't II. how did IL like it.
onli groned.
then pa got his pipe an fild it with missus
millers best an maid me smoke it, sayin,
men don't stop ut pipe full ov tobacker II
must haiv gud smoke. if Il evir want a
smoke agane tel me 50, an Il kin haiv my
pipe.
if had been big man an wosent so six
l wood haiv licked pa. tribe ask him 4
merci, but coodent spcke jist closid
mi eyes an praid 4 gawd maik me a gud
boy an let me die.
then went 2 sleap an next day wos
better.
ipromicid ma wood nevir smoke agane
litel boy, nevir smoke, that is mi advise.
il must smoke haiv pistol with II, an
then wen II get sick Il kin xii yourself
youres, gorgie.-New York Mercury.