The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-08

II like scotlan', tho it isn't bit like South
Minneapolis. Seems If you take a fancy to
some things jes' cause they're differen', an
to others cause they're. alike There aren't
two places made It are more differen' n South
Minneapolis an Scotlan' an yet they're the
two I like bes' SO far. Seems If when the
Lord made Scotlan' he was undecided
whether to have it in mountains or lowlan's
an so he, jes' put it in hit an miss an
dunno but what that's ies' bout good a
rule for countries as It is for rag carpets
aFys stinlulatin. ..-
Mrs. Gray spen' all OF her adjectives on
kofh hom9nd an when we came to Loeb eia
on the deck of the boat in the pourin' rain
a-holdin' the Lady of the Lake She WASH t
alone by any means an the deck was jes'
asted Mrs. Gray why the lakes were called
lochs,f an all she could say was that they
were, fan' Billie could have told me that
much When you really want information
you don't need 1t, it corues in showers,
seems if.
queerer English n the English do. When an
Englishman talked real slow. an didn t
have too much on my min, could manage
to undsrstan' half of what he said, but with
out a quarter, even II ! put my full min
to it. I'm glad I'm travelin' til Mrs. Gray
an Billie stead of benz alone. Billlie's the
bes' talker of the two, for Mrs. Gray likes to
sit an think-that may be int'restin' to her
but is aren't to Billie or to me, an, seems If,
i mos might as we'll be deaf an dumb, for
an y aay 70 B Hi ddnt
say moren seventy-six words from breakfas
to dinner, an that isn't much fer a body
what's used to exercisin' her tongue as well
as her arms. - 50 A.: ~ g,sste go
..Well, as was sayin', for three days Mrs
! Gray he'll The Lady of the Lake an looked
thore an threw stones at Ellen's Isle: II
isn't biggern a thimble an seems If folks
we're maxim a big fuss over little thing
but since. I've been.~tfavelin' I've learned
| that it isn't the size OF a thing t counts
when we went; down to Edinboro- that's
| the way Mrs. Gray called it after she's beer
there half a day, fore that, she said Edin'
the Hollywood palace where Mary. Queen o.
Scots, lived for spell, an. it.made me tI!rr
col all! over to thing OF queen Twin II
such barn ia rather have We. Mrs ,s sch n
seems If, I'D be more home-like.
Mrs. Gray al'ys says Mary, Queen o
Scots s II cv'ry letter. was capital an
che kin OF ducks her head. g If she was II
church. When we were: a-iookin' at tn!
queens bed an was thinkin, how glad
was didn't lave to make it TIL all its cur
tains m trinmtn's, Mrs. Gray says, say
She, in her Sunday voice, says she: ~
i rather have been Mary, Queen of Scots. I
anybody In hist'ry or fiction, says she e, :,
! from putin his fingers thru the bed quilt
/ tho Ian knows there were. holes 'noush, :
/ dunno all the folks in hist'ry norsyet fiction.
says ], but If was to choose I'd take on
j t kept her head on her neck. I'm beginnin
4 to. think, Mrs. Gray. says I. : t bonnets ar
more comfortable Wearin' IN crowns. The!
much. This Mary Queen OF Scots, Id hav,
4 lived longer if she'd had to. board an dres:
herself on dollar "a day. says l.: She hat
| too much time for the work she had to do
NY -, n "a
l of It does, seems if.',s'
."Mrs Gray thought was putin it a littl'
strong an II I hadn't asted her she wouldn
1 have gone to see John Knox's grave. Blu
| after she read me bout EN-, seems If 1T wal
i only fair to see both sides Of a story W.
1 had to asst three p'licemen and four ordinar!
! men fore we foun' it.. an then Mrs Ora!
wouldn't b'lieve it, for it isn't anythin' bu
a little square plate in the Psyemen tina