The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-05
Nay LITTLE GIRL SAID
Bot What She Did Say the Man
With the Iron Jaw Will
Never, Never Hear.

A man with oharacterlees mouth and an
eye that denoted garrulity espied in the car
an acquaintance with lucid eye and an
iron jaw, and sat down beside him.
well, sir" he said. as soon as he settled
himself in his seat. that little girl OF mine
is the greatest"
We'll. II they don't have some kind Of a
revolution over there they ought to have
one" interrupted the iron jawed man,
Those Russian folks have been getting the
bum end OF it for long time
The man with the indeterminate counte-
nance looked puzzled.
Say guess you didn't catch me right :
he said. after a pause ! was gong TO
tell you n funny thing that little girl o mine
said this"
-Oh, don't think Congress is going to
put through any important legislation this
session. cut in the strong faced man,
calmly. Congress isn't going to fall all Of
a heap for those Socialislic notions that are
sprnging up. Things are pretty good AS
they are. and don't believe in tinkering
with conditions that are about all right
-Er-ye-es. that's 50, said the man with
the receding Ahin But this little our
year-old girl of>mine is the brightest
Yep and think the prospect for con-
tinuanoe of the good times looks pretty
bright" eaid TIE man with the lucid eye:
We don't read OF half no many cases OF
distress his<weather as we did last winter
and the winter before that
Well. when that little girl o mine came
down to the breakfast table this morning,
pursued the father, OF the phenomenal
cakes on the table and
Now you hit me where | live said the
iron jawed one. Didn't believe | could
possibly put in the cold season without
buckwheat cakes for breakfast. What kind
do you use at home-the old fashioned buck
wheat or this newfangled sef-raising
kind?'
Er-I don't know what kind my wife
prefers. Anyhow az soon as my little girl
saw the buokwheats She
We'll. for mine, give me the old fashioned
friend of mine brought me half dozen
bottles OF twenty-year-old Bourbon from
Kentucky the other day. Finest tang to
il | ever tasted
That SOP weakly inquired the parent Of
the marvellous little girl. We'll, she looked
at those buckwheat cakes solemnly for
minute, and
Il think those little Jap Generals II
chase kuropatkln of the map, since you
ask me, rejoined the iron iawed man.
Wouldn't be surprised. at that. to see the
Russian army in Manchuria throw down
their arms and revolt
and then she looked first at her mother
and then at me. and then she pointed at the
buckwheat cakes and then"
Talking about pointing, my friend Jim
Pothunter over Jersey way. has got the
SWEETEST bird dog I've seen in a month Of
Sundays It's a foxy bird that sneaks
away from that pointer
Say, look a-here. said the man with the
vapidi physiognomy' I wasn't talking
We'll. here's where fan Off com
plaoently remarked the iron jawed man
getting up and starting for the platform
-SlonR Be good.
Any fat head, he growled az he swung
along toward his Office. who dreams that
he's a-going TO shoot yarns about the cor
uscatng brilliance Of his offspring into
my system before I've diaested my break
fast or opened my morning mail has got 10
hobble me in a subterreneous donion-
keep and gag me there first and that's
no fageolet fantasia In F with augelhorn
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