The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01

the question.
Yes, every word" he said, without
lifting his head Look out of h Win
dow for awhile"
Alberta whirled around in the seat
and sat on her heels, her little nose
glued to the window, but her change
of view had no effect on her flow OF
Interrogation. Say, papa, I wonder
what's in those wagons over there?"
Potatoes" her father answered, au-
tomatically. and so closed this topic.
She wriggled around to her old place
and laid her cheek against his arm.
Say, papa, do you suppose aunt
Mary'n be glad to see us?"
Eyes, of course she will"
what. do you suppose she'll have
for dinner? 1 wish she'd have baked
sweet potatoes, don't you, papa?" The
father was buried in an editorial on
street car franchises. Papa, do you
really think We'll have baked sweet
~potatoes?"
Yes, sure"
Can I eat all 1 want to-? You don't
care how many 1 eat, do you?"
mo, 1 don't; but 1 wish o would
stop talking for one block. I'll give
you a nickel if you won't speak till we
come to the tunnel."'
Five cents is the same as a nickel,
isn't it, papa?"
yes, Just the same.
81 believe I'll buy some marshmal-
lows with my nickel, or some yellow
chalk. Which would you buy, papa?"
81 would buy just what 1 wanted
most. Now, keep quiet while I read
my paper"
Where do they make yellow chalk?'
amy place"
81 wonder if I could use white chalk
for powder when I get growed up. Say,
papa, Addie Whitley, hat lives just
across the street from us, just powders
an awful lot. Do you s'pose she ever
washes her face, too?"
Yes. But if you don't watch Wen
be at the tunnel before you stop ask
ing questions"
Il amt going to ask another ques-
ton, papa; but l wonder how they
ever made a tunnel? 1 should think
the water would have come in when
they was making it. Would the men
get drownded if the water come in
when they was digging the tunnel,
papa?"
Alberta, aren't you ever going to
stop" the exasperated parent ex-
claimed, laying down his paper. You
are enough to drive a man crazy"
DO folks ever get crazy on street
cars, papa?"
No answer from the father. She
snuggled closer and looked up into his
face doubtfully. you don't really
do you, papa?" This last in a tone of
real fear.
No, Alberta, I don't"
But, papa, if o did go crazy and
went to an asylum, 1 s'pose me and
aunt Mary would come to see you,
wouldn't we?"
Il suppose so. if the doctors would
let me see company"
why, don't they let crazy folks see
their own little g1ris?" ,
No answer, so the query was repeated
until he answered Yes" in despera-
ton.
81 wouldn't like to live at a asylum
all the time, would you, papa? Say,
summer, when we was up at Lake
Geneva, there was a little girl there,
and she said two of her cousins went
crazy from eating checkerberries that
wasn't ripe. Do o suppose that was
SOP"
No; that little girl didn't know what
she was talking about"
And h had a pet squirrel that
could eat nuts like everything.
Wouldn't you think squirrels would get
tired cracking nuts with their teeth?"
Alberta, we will be at the tunnel
in about half a minute, and o won't
get n money if you don't stop that
chatter"
Silence for almost half a block. Then,
in a new note of anxiety, Alberta be-
gins again, Say. papa, aren't you go:
to give me that nickel?"
mot if YOU don't keep quiet till we
get to the tunnel"
But I'm keeping quiet now, amt I,
papa?"
The a now sung around the last
curve that leads down to the tunnel.
you see, we've almost reached the
tunnel, and I haven't read three con-
secutive words in my paper" the faith
said.
What does consecutive mean?" AL
berta asked.
ut means that little girls shouldn't
ask so many questions"
But, papa, you're going to let me
have hat nickel. amt you? You are,
aren't your" she pleaded as the car
glided down the incline into the white
tunnel. Aren't you. papa?"
Yes, of course; anything to keep
you quiet, Alberta. You ask more
questions than any other child on the
North Side. Now, 1 want you to keep
Say, papa" returned the incorrigible
Alberta, "how do you know 1 ask more
questions than any other child on the
North Side? Who told you that 1 asked
more questions?"
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