Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-05

large barn.
But after dad has had the fun of fig.
uring up what he's made for the last
year and dividing that by fifty.two, to
get An average, he says, he multiplies
that by twenty.four weeks OF the next
six months and subtracts a lot Of
things from that. What's left is for
Nova Scotia. and he gets real hopeful.
and when ma comes into my room for
another yawn can see she's kind OF
grinning. To make sure of what he
calls the margin. dad always says he'll
eat at cheap restaurants every day for
siv months, and ma gets affectionate
and tells him not to starve himself or
make himself sick. don't see how she
can say II and keep her face straight
But she's the most hopeful woman you
ever saw.
But | don't want 10 be too hard on
the old man. He tired the other day
to have some real fun. Ma suggested
that 1t might do him good to go to a
real funny show without her or me to
look after. He said kind of mournful
that he was afraid there might be a re.
action after a funny show, because he
had read something like that some.
where. Ma said, 'Nonsense.' so dad
sneaked off to the theater as II he was
going to get licking.
81 sneaked down the ilre escape with
30 cents out OF the ice money to follow
him, for I'd risk any kind of a licking
to see dad really cut loose and laugh.
had a quarter besides for carfare.
First he walked up and down in front
OF half dozen theaters and lost lot
of time. | suppose he was trying to
decide which one TO go to. went up
and down on the other side of the
street behind lot OF cabs and kept my
eye on him. Finally he went in down.
stairs TO high.priced seat. That
just like dad. an abe talks more about
saving money, his ma says, than any
man she knows.
II went mp in the niger heaven and
got In the front row where could look
over. II took me most ten minutes to
pick out the old man. He's getting
bald, and the top Of his head looks
just like the top of any other head n
mile away. II seemed like a mile up
there, anyway. BY and by | spotted a
man that didn't clap his hands when
everybody else did at something on
the stage, and something told me that
must be dad. Pretty soon rubbered
far enough over the rail to get a peep
at his whiskers. and then was sure.
Then | kept looking from the folks
on the stage to dad and back again,
cause ! wanted to see the shiw myself
and see the old man laugh too.
couldn't see his face very well but |
know that If he laughed I'd know 1t
somehow. II seemed to me that II that
man really did laugh everybody else
at the show would just turn right
around to look at him.
But he didn't move and he didn't
clap, and lost half the show watching
him for nothing until pretty soon there
was an awful racket and smash behind
the scenes and big dummy in a vel.
~" oNercoat shot head nrst across the
back of the stage and landed with an
awful thump on the other side. And
in about two seconds in walked little
sno'' ia' man WIN yeiIow coat on
S"s' "Ne oie mummy 5, ana an automo'
D'ie cap ne Iet on that ne was the
uu"''p we hao JUS, seen ana sald that
He was iu,i Vi sasoiene aIter the eNpio'
snon "e'i you thouSht everyone In
,na' 'nea.er was going 10 Dust laugh
ING anu III minute AFTER everybody
e'se aau got their iaugh started heard
yen downstairs. Ihere was dad with
ie heau 80 iar DICK that ! could see
"'s eyes anu the emu Oh MS whiskers
soins up ana uown ana ne was slap
ping Tue arms Oh MS chair with both
"a i,nu,
iheh yeiiea ana everybody down.
s'airs was looking at dad and every
Douy ups'airs was LOOKING at me- You
Io''uh s'op the Ola man AFTER That.
-ie ie' ou. enough iaush ior whole
'e", anu ! nave swiped another %
n's Just 10 nave had ma with me
'"e,e u see MN
'er 'he sho" ne forgot all about
eons 70 cheap restaurants TO save
'honey ior Nova scotia' but braced
',en. ih.o SVEN place next to the
" eat was hungry 100, so
o"'"Neu ihlo the same pace SO could