The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18
BY MYRA KELLY
Author of Little Citizens" etc.

amt got nobody. The lady by our
floor is NICE On'y I amt lovin' so aw-
full much mother. I needs mine Uncle
Abey."
Poor LIZZIE" cried Eva Gonorowsky.
and stopped to take the sufferers
hand. BY so doing she disclosed the.
sturdy figure Of her satellite, Patrick
Brennan, and Isidores grief was
quickly changed to wrath.
Think shame how your papa makes
nit mine uncle" he ragged. Mine TN
Gle he don't makes nothing nit rim
und extra he commences. Anyway
mine uncle he shoots him nit pistols
in the leg"
Not your uncle" Miss Bailey cor
rected him. "Patrick's mother came TO
see me this morning and told me about
poor Mr.. Brennan. But it was not
your uncle who shot him. II was q
man who kept-well, / can't explain
the kind of a man it was. But not
your uncle"
1T was mine uncle" IsidOre main
tanned Il lays on mine bed in sleep
when comes a great big all Of mons
your fellow was mitt-"
No" cried Teacher; mot Doctor
Ingrahamr'
Teacher, yiss, ma'am, your fellow"
-"Oh, Isidore, Isidorer' walled Teach
er, and fell to crying as bitterly as
the boy. 1T is all my fault and he
was so good to u.s.
"Yiss, ma'am, he had feelings. He
makes on me und you und George
Washington, parties. He is kind
mans"
HUH snorted Patrick. che shot me
pop"
cause your papa was rubberin'
round. Your papa is awful nCsy. He
comes nit that all of mans und they
takes mine uncle's chips und his cards
und a table what he had nit turning
wheels. Mine poor uncle he feels awful
bad, und your papa und Teachers fell
low they says cheek on him on'y he
don't say nOthings. On'y by a while
the makes they shall take where mine
uncle's money is und he hits a man
a little bit Of mana hack. Sooner the
all of mans they hits mine uncle und
they takes his money und they chases
him around und they holds the mans
und the ladies what was playfn' NIT
mine uncle-the ladies they hoIlers
somethini fierce. SO-o-oh mine uncle
he takes his shoOtin' pistol und he
shoots Patrick Brennan's nosy papa in
the leg"
THAT was very wrong of him." said
| Teacher.
Amt George Wash'ton made shoots
nit pistOls?" demanded Isidore.
Yes he did" admitted Miss Bailey.
Amt he hit a great big all Of
mans? Und amt they made him pres
| idents over it unds papas off Of coun-
/ tries where flowers stands ind birds
| sings?"
''Und where the Fresh Air Fund is"
supplemented Eva.
We'll, not exactly because he hit so
many men. And besides it all hap
| pened long and long ago They don't
/ make presidents that way any more"
"Ain't Teddy Rosenfeit hit mans?
/ Und amt they made him presidents
| over it? Ony that amt how they
makes nit mine uncle They don't
makes him presidents nor papas nei-
| ther. They takes und puts something's
| from iron on his hands so he couldn't
| to talk even. They puts him in a
wagon ind they says they needs him
over the water"
! ''Where?" asked Teacher.
/ "Over the water where islands is uud
] prisons stands. That's how they makes
NIT him the while he hits somebody
NIT pistols. I guess they don't know
| bout George und Teddy. They makes
| them-mine uncle tells you now they
makes George und Teddy-presidents
/ und papas over it"
But that was from long, lizzie"
/ Eva reminded him.
/ And altogether different" added
Miss Bailey.
An me pop wasn't there. He'd a
pinched EN-" said aPtrick.
| "Und George and his gang along"
observed Nathan Spiderwitz.
| 'Und lizzie" said Morris Mogilewsky,
summing the matter up, George
Wash'ton he amt hit mans in legs
NIT shootin' pistols out KILN 'em. You
/ couldn't TO be presidents ind papas
over that. George Wash'ton he kills
em all bloody und dead. He kills
punches of t'Ousens of mans. Why isn't
your uncle kill somebody"
/ HE hits him in the leg" reiterated
! Isidore, sadly.
But he amt killed 'em. Und, lizzie.
! sooner you amt killed somebody
bloody und dead, you couldn't to be
] presidents ind papas OFF Of countries.'s