The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-18

ST didn't realize how was goin' to miss
Mrs Schultz till we We're lookin, at Grants
tomb in New York Mrs. Gray said we ought
to see it fore we went over to France to look
at Napoleon s, an agreed with her. It may
be t Europe is full of sights, but America
g Napoleon IS Isn't any bettrn this, is 1t
ma says. Billie, says he. when we were
standin on the steps.
% eOf course it ism t, says she, the French
folks built It, says she.
80 We'll, the Americans made this says
he, an guess the Americans can build
as good graveyards as the French any day
says. he Billie thinks t the United States
runs right aroun',the worT,as an seems if he
wasn't far wrong, for you cant get away
from Its people, try as you will.
II dunno but what he was right about
Grants grave, the beauty of thing depen's
on the way you look at It, an. we can't ever
Grants, not even ST we had two pair of eyes
an pearl handled opera glass. One be-
longed to US an one didn't. an your own
family al'ys means more to you some some
one else'S, seems If.
over the raiin' a-lookin' at marble coffin, t
it came over me all of a suddin' It / wouldn't
be able to tell Mrs. Schultz bout it. It ,is
when you begin to see things It you want
somebody to talk to an I'm used to Mrs.
Schultz. I knew we'll 'nough what she'd say,
t there were stones in Layman's GENTRY It
intrestfn' things everywhere for folks who.ye
got the eyes to see 'em, seems II. Mrs.
SchultZ'S got a talent for contradictin an
she don't ever hide it under a basket. But
it doesn t make any diff'rence how disagree
able body is when you're used to 'em you
| miss EN- an, seems II, it's their disagree
ableness you miss mos.
ut wasn't It'll the mornin' Of the day we
were to sail It Mrs. Gray remembered she d
| lef her. steamship ticket in Minneapolis
| Shed given it to her brother-in-law to put
| in his safe SO it wouldn't get lost, but
seems II, IT. the things yeu put. away care
fully It are the hardest to fn' She got con-
did ev'rythin but call her names. After he'd
| telegraphed to Minneapolis, an made her fee
/ It she'd acted jes like woman he Quietei
! down bit. I'm not excusin' Mrs. Gray, fol
i she was careless, but I've known men I
occasionally forgot things. There was one
| where in New York state, but he didn't know
where There may be more important folks
n the agent for a steamship line. but seems
| if never saw 'em, 'ceptin' In a Minneapoli.
street car.
81 mus say l was. glad to get away from
i New York. It may be good for a body Il
1 re'lize they don't amount to much, but
dunno as it's stimulatin' 10 reel like the in
side of doughnut But even If didn'
have any strong yearnin for it, didn't lik
4 to see 1t fade away when the ship began t,
1 move. Seems if I'd rather been one of tn
4 crowd a-wayin' their good wishes an
ta-stretchin' their clothes on the dock n on
of. those a-hangin' over the 4railin' on TIL
boat You don t. begin to 'preciate thin
solid to me as when I'm on the water.
You'll never see anythin' so good as tina
till you come back to New, York harbor,
4 says man to me, says he. .a-wavin, his han
Il In my face an nearly knockin' my hat Off
= "slAn knows VIII, 1, says 81 liiea-s says he