Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-22
UNCLE TOMMYROT.
HIS TALKS WITH MEMBERS OF THE
KIND KIDS KLUB.

Good News For Orphans - Something
New on Hand to Interest the Boys.
Here is % peculiar letter Unclo Tommy
rot received last week among others. 1t
did not contain 81, which was of itself
suspicious, and Uncle Tommyrot doubts
that 1t was written in good faith:
THE "RATHoLE," Aug. steenth.
DEAR UNCLE ToMMyRoT-How glad l am TO
sec you back at your new desk after your long
%soiourn at Marble Twice-on.thc .Hudsoni l in.
quircd many times for you, but they said you
we're way Mt n sanitarium being treated for
your poor throat, which had become raw md
sore, hollcring so continuously for "$2," and
that it must be burned out with alcoholic
stimulants. / wept my tear jug full. Here is
u poem | wrote about you. Isn't it beautiful
Some think he should be poisoned,
Some say he should be shot,
But that's no way to talk about
Your Uncle Tominyrot.
oh, how / sympathized with the childrcn's
friend, for / myself am II poor little boy, only
g! years old and an orphan. Until last spring
l had two as good parents as anybody, although
they were somewhat worn and were deaf and
dumb. One day they saw Il poor man strug.
Cling along who had the palsy. Needless Of
consequences. they went out and assisted him,
only to be stricken with the dread, infectious
disease the very next day, passing in their
chips four days later. l tell you, uncle, it was
pitiful to see my poor palsy stricken, deaf and
dumb parents try TO talk to each other with
their hands. They would shake and shake and
get all twisted up in their remarks. am say.
ing 81 for you. | have Sl.S7 of 1t now, but,
knowing your firm attitude on the cut price
question, l would scOrn to send loss than the
full amount. DO You belong to the Seventh
regiments IMAM told me he saw you Mt War
bic Twicc.on.thc.Hudson and you had n uni.
form on with n big y :" scwed to the
breast. Please write to "A lonesome little or.
phanctto. Very truly your nephew,
OLIVER TREMnLE.
p. S.-A horn bug lit on me last night, and l
let the little cusS bite all he wanted to. Before
! Joined the Kind KIDS klu | would have bit
back. Why Is u lobster bowlcgged2 Why do
you charge full price for orphansf
In reply to this scurrilous attack. for
Uncle Tommyrot can read between the
lines, Uncle Tommyrot wishes to say that
he does not belong to the seventh rcgi-
mcnt, being already IL member of the Vet
Gran corps of tho llighball Fusilccrs, with
the rank Of colonel. But what l. the al
! lurCmcnts Of rank when children all over
the world call him Uncle" and send him
S2y Could anything be more ranky The
horn bug incident, as related by this nllcg-
cd orphan, Uncle TommyrOt receives with
suspicion and views with distrust. Be.
sides, the ritual Of the Kind Kid klubs
only bcspcaks kindness to animals. \
horn bug ii not an animal. As to tho query
as to why Holsters are bowleggcd, it is
out of Uncle ~Tommyrot's province to IN
swcr questions pertaining to natural his
tory. llo will, however, PROFOUND the
problem to his learned coadjutor, Profess
or Josh NJ. A. Long, the eminent author
Of "Chomistry For Children; or, The
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