The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-06
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! Just on his liver. when the supreme mo-
l ment arrives. and his heart jumps up
into his throat. and wabbles, and beats
too quick. he Just Hunks. would like
to d,ssect a real brave man. and see
| what condition the things inside him are
i In. but 1T would be a waste of time to
Glssect dad. cause know all his inner
works need to go to matchmaker ard
be cleaned. and new handspring put
lin. tSl34 5Ss.5 III. Il
Wen, this morning dad shaved him
! self, and n got on his frock coat, and
his. silk hat, d nd, said we, would go over.
to the White House and have n talk with
4 Teddy. but first he wanted :. to go and see
where Jefferson litchcd& his horse to the
fence when he came to Was hington. to be
tnnogera.e. and where Jackson SIN oked
his corn cob pipe and swore and storm
] ed around when he was ma d. and to walk.
ION the same paths where Ia chariah Tay-.
| lor lacked, Buchanan catched 1t, and
Lincoln put down tho rebellion, and SO.
we walked over toward the White House,
4 and I was scandallzed. stopped to.
/ pick up a'stone 10 throw at. a dog inside
the, fence. and whenSI walked along be-,
/ hind had, and got rear view of his
I silk hat,git seem ed az though l would
sink, through the asphalt pavement, for.
! he had on. an old silk hat that lie wore
before the war, the darnedest looking
hta, / ever saw the brim our1ed like q
| minstrel show hat, the fur rubbed OF in
1 some places, and he looked like one of
these actors that you see pictures OF
| walking on the railroad track, when the
show busts up at the last town. / think
! a man ought to dress so his young son
won't have At. I tried to get dad to go
and buy pew. hat, but he said he was
going to walt TIL he got to London. and
i T.
| but he will never getEto tLond on with. that
hat, cause tonight 7 will throw It out
Of the hotel window and put a piece OF
stove pipe In his hat box.
Well, sir, you wouldn't believe It, but
We got into the White House without
being pulled. but it was q, close shave,
cause everybody looked at dad and put
their forefngers to their foreheads for
they thought he i; was either a crank,
| or an ambassador from some furrIn
country The detectives got around dad I
when we got into the ante-room, and
began to feel Of his pockets to see it he
hau a gun. and one Of them asked ME
them he was the greatest bob cat shoot
or In the West and was on his way
to Europe to invite tho emperors and
things to come over to this country and
shoot cats onaIh his preserve. Well say.
you ought to have seen how they step
/ pea QIl6 Sue dilClt 4 Hhilzeu dTOuno,F anu
one OF them went In the next room and
told the President dad was there, and
before we knew 1t we were in the Pres!-4
dents room and the President began to
curl up his lip. and show his teeth like
some one had said IRA ts,'' He got hold
OF dads hand, and dad backed of as
though he was afraid OF being bitten,
and ..en they sat down and talked a bout
mountain lion and cat shooting, and
dad said he hau q 90 rifle that no could
pick a. cat Off the back fence with every
Tine out OF his bedroom window, and
I began to look around at the pictures.
Dad and the President talked about all
kinds of shooting. from mudhens to
moose, and then dad told the President
|.he was going abroad on account Of his
liver, and wanted a. letter of introduce
ton to some of the kings and emperors,
and queens, and Jacks, and all the face
CARDS, ana the President said he made
II ~ practice not TO give any personal
letters to his friends, the kings. but that
dad could tell any Of them that he met
that he was an American citizen, and
that would take him anywhere In Eu-
rope and then he got up and began to
show his teeth at dad again, aud dad
gave him the grand hailing sign OF dis
tress of the Grand Army and backed
out. dropped his hat, and In trying TO
pick It up, lie stepped on It, but that
made It look etter. anyway, and we
found ourselves outside the room, and a
lot or common people from the country
were reudy to 80 In and talk politics
and cat shooting.
Well. We looked at pictures, and saw
the state din!ng-room wheO they feed
fifty diplomats at a time on mud turtle
and champagne. and boy about my
size looked sort OF dlsdainfu at me, and
told him II he would come outside
would mash his jaw, and he said could
try It right there II was In a hurry
to go, and was starting to give him
swift punch when a detective took hold
o. my arm and said they couldn't have
any scrap there cause the. Presidents
son could not fight with common boys,
and asked him who he called a COM
mon boy. and then dad said we better
go before war broke out In a country
that was lily prepared for hostillties on
large scale, and then told detec-
tive that dad was liable 10 have ono OF
his spells and begin shooting any minute,
and then tho detectives all thought dad
was one OF these President assassina-
tionists. and they took him intoEa room
and searched him, and asked him
whole lot Of fool questions. and they
hnalyqlet his out, and told us we better
sIs4p the town before night. Dad got
kind or heayy-heared over that and took
notion he would like to see ma again
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