The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-23


deliberately as you are. You haven't
any more pride left than a grasshop-
per. You don't even brush your
clothes off any more. You look dand-
rufy and sloppy, and you don't even
get your shoes polished nowadays.
There was time when you at least
had enough regard for me to-
He-What's the use of running
after a street car when you've caught
It? I'm for Morpheus. Let's cancel
all dates for the present and make it
twenty minutes for new book. In
the morning. mean at breakfast
you can go as far as you like and
write your own ticket. But it's get
ting on toward sun-up now. Forget
it.
She-You used to shave or get
shaved every day, but now you go
round looking like one Of those un-
shaven tramps at the vaudeville
shows.
He-Back to nature for mine.
Going to raise a Herr Most beard.
Say, let's declare an armistice and
pound our ears. Awful dopy.
She-I went downtown to go
through the stores this morning
yesterday morning, rather-and /
met Mrs. Neatwad, and she treated
me to lunch, and I didn't have q
penny in my pocketbook to treat her
to ice cream soda, and when we came
home she had to pay the carfares,
too, for I only had the nickel for my
own fare home, and I was never so
embarrassed and mortified in my life,
and she's just the kind of a cat thatll
go around and tell everybody all
about
ITe-Why don't you beat her to it
and tell everybody about it first!
That's the system. Good night, baby
doll.
she--Baby doll! wish you
wouldn't insult me, if you please, by
your sarcasm.
Sarcasm nothing. Mean it.
Every word of it. So long, angel
face.
she-Its perfectly contemplate of
you to lie there and ridicule me after
the way you have
He-Who's ridiculing? Nothing
Of the sort. Let's dig up old man
Nod Bye bye, sweet.
She-Me going around with my
feet all but on the ground, and I've
been just wild for a pair of those
patent russell Oxfords with the fiat
bows, and saw pair in a window
a couple of days ago for only Sc, and
| just stood there gawking at them
like a fool, although / knew there
wasn't a chance on earth that I'd
ever get a pair, and
He-All kinds of things are La
BILE to happen if you'll only let me
get some of this sleep out of my sys-
TEN.
She-Oh, yes, there's a lot liable
to happen when my husband trots
around with lot of roysterers that
have eight or ten times as much
money to spend themselves as he
has, and then he thinks he's got to
hold his end up, as he calls it, and
should think you'd have more digni-
ty, anyhow-you, married man
than to fool away your time with a
lot of no-accoGnt bachelors that can't
get'a decent girl to so much as look
at them much less marry them, and
il l were man I'd
He-Didnt set me back any bum
die to hold my end up with the bunch
of fatheads tonight, as long as you
put it that way. Watch little Sun
locks smoke, that's all. He gets
his'n once in a while.
She-Oh, suppose what you call
breaking even" satisfies you, but it's
not often that you even do that, and
il 1 didn't know any more about
cards than you do, for all your
boosted knowledge, I'd try beanbag
or something that
He-Tut, tut, and then some
tushes, but if you'll only give me a
chance to lay up few lines of slum-
Der I'll
She-Very well, but I'm telling
you now that l simply must have SIS
tomorrow to get some things that
I've set aside, and T.
He-Stop talking about chicken
feed-$S. That's the merest junk.
How'd eighty suit you?
She-Eighty? Ha, ha, ha! If
ever saw $50 in my hand all at once
I'd begin to run around in circles,
and if
He-Would, hey? [Darting out
OF bed and producing the fat bundle
from his trousers pocket Eighty
a mere bag of shells. Here's a hun
dred and a half win a hundred
more than that on a cOuple o. nat