The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-08
SUNDOWN TALKS.

few minits bout fairies. In all de books
| single word bout Guild fairies. Dey Jest
| claims dat all fairies white, and dat
| dey don't pay no 'tenShun to pickaninnteS.
| lie gwine to show you right yere and now
| dat it's all wrong. Why, lie been seem
Guild fairies myself cher since I was seben
| EN- most any night.
IT reckon julius remembers de night he
started out last summer wild a basket on
| his arm to pick some rhubarb fur his pore
old father, who was hankerin' arter sun
| thin green. He went up de alley, kase
| head ached and he didn't want to hear
any pl1rleeceman talkin' to hisself 1 had
! sorter limited to him dat if he didn't find
any rhubarb CROWN in de alley he should
climb ober de fence into some handy gar
| obedience, but you all remember dat he
| cum back home wild nuthin' but old
burdock in his basket and a. studded toe.
He was clinbin' a garden fence wiian
he thought he heard dawg growl. ard
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feet o. his maxim holes in de eavenin' air
to beat de band I'd, had to eat raw ,tat ter,
barb, when all de time dere was a Gull d
fairy waitin in de garden to help Julius
fill his basket to runnin' ober:
| TT makes my mouf water when I think
of dat rhubarb and dat fairy, waitin'
| round, and mebbe julius mouf does de
same thing when he members whar' de
bootjack hit him when he cum back wild
his agent parent fur celery.
Oar may cum an occashun when I y
ak Lucinda. who has growed up to be a
right-smart gal, to look around and find
two fresh aigs fur my breakfast. shan t
tell her to go dis way or dat way, but lest
philosophy to know dat whar' chickens
am to be found dar' she will also find
aigs. When she gifts home 1 hain't gwin e
to ak her whar' dose aigs cum from, but
lie gwine to tell her right now dat she
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flynn up and down de alley to watch fur
dawgs and purleecemen, and she needn't
probably smile and bow and say it's no
use takin only two aigs when dar' am
a hull dozen waitin to be removed. Luz
cinda may meet a milkman who will yell
at her, or stable boy who will try to
grab her by de hair, but all she's got to
family.
woodpile will git low and we shall all feel
shibers runnin' up and down our backs.
look at Reuben, who am allus cheerfully
willin' to do anything in de family inter
When he sees e9 me fookin he viii put on
his cap and step fo'th into de night. If
You will feel suthin' hard bump up agin
you. Reuben may hev to walk mile in
and cum back loaded. Mebbe he will make
three trips of it befo' I stop lookin' at
tall. Guild fairy will be wild him all
de time and helpin him on, and as ne
finally sots down befo' roarin' fire he
will feel a soft and greasy feelin' steal
ober him from head to foot.
lie heard dat dey wasn't gwine to hev
no Chrismus dis year account Of 'leck-
shun, but if dey change DER minds and
do hev, den Reuben and Lucinda lin
sorter look out fur Santa Claus-not too
much loollin' out but jes huff to almost
git one o. dem dollar watches dat run fer
two days widout pumpin' up agin, or one
o. dem rag dolls dat opens and shets her
ewes and tells what time it is by de Their
mometer."- 1904. by T. C.
Mcclure