Mexico Missouri message., 1900-10-04
PAS LESSON IN 81
r. GEOGRAPHY.

So after he Got his Slgar Int ana
we were all sittin' out on the
porch and the pupp had Captnn
Drinkers wifc's cat mp y tree !
says:
Paw"
WHAT" he asst.
DO you know what's the larg-
est Lake in the United States" |
told him.
''Of corse," he anserd. Lake
Soup peerior,"
That's WHARF you're rong,
paw" | says.
Paw took his sigar out from be-
tween his teeth and made some
rings of smoke. Then he says:
"GeOrgs, I've been Twin i'll this
country several years longer than
you, and | haven't been keepin
my Eyes shut nor my ears plugged
neither. Lake Soup periOr is the
biggest Lake in the United States
and it makes me feel sad to see you
sitting there Grinning like po-
leasmun that got cot Asleep on
His beat becoz You think you No
more than Your Fawther."
well, just the same" | told
him, Lake Michigan's the big
gest one in the United States. |
learned that when the teacher gave
us our Joggerfy lesson, today"
That's where ! say Chicago
people make n mistake paw says.
It's all rite to Stick up for your
town when you can do it sensible.
But they amt emmy use tryin' not
to notus facts when they don't
make you Feel proud. You might
as well try to keep baby with a
Pin jabbing it in the side from
SQuallin' by tellin' it some Of its
ancestors were Offusers in the rev.
olushunery War as to think you
can ever twist fact so it won't
fly rite back in shape the minute
you let Go. So say it's rOng for
Chicago people to try to make out
that Lake Michigan's the biggest
because they can see it from the
back end of their Flats"
WELL" told him, ITS so en-
ny way. They amt anuther lake
in the United States as big as Lake
Michigan, becoz our teacher told
us about it,"
George paw says, looking
like if his hart was tuched, We
t't#. III lay life to DC "a GOO. 9.u-
sonablc Pairumt 10 you, So when
you grew Up to he II man and cum
sumctimc to where the Grass was
green and the Leaves russeld soft
" abuv the mound and all was
still and PEACEFUL YOU would look
down with luv in your brest and
think of the dear old Days when
YOU could hear the glad, onnust
ring of my Voice around the house
and blamed if I'm II goin' to be
contradicted by my own children
rite to my face when | no I'm rite.
Here | 60 working away and saw
ing my mummy to give You home
and send you to school, and then
you cum back ut mite and tell me |
don't no as mutch as sum Teacher
that has to keepat it II Hole munth
to crn what | make i'll II week. 1t
would of Been II sad day for me if
| would of Ever talked to my faw-
ther that way, and | amt Going
to put up with Emmy more of it."
But, paw" nav says, don't
be too impaishunt with the Poor
boy. You wouldn't want him to
Think something rong was rite be-
eos you happened to get mistaken
ed, would you! Mebbe he might be
correct about it, after all. ="
That's it," paw told her. go
on incurridging Him to think his
fawther duzzcnt no map From a
sheet of Sticky fly paper. OF corsc,
] couldn't hardly expect you to
think ! mite no as mutch rs Lev
en year old boy, but I'm not go
ing to let emmy of the rest of the
Family tell me so in plain words.
And how can you sit there, NAV,
and Say the boy mite be rite about
this Thing! How could he be rite!
There amt no mite about it,"
Then he had to lite his sigar