The Falls City tribune., 1907-03-22
!, MARRYING
MY PA OFF
BY MERCER VERNON.
Copyright. by Daily story Pub. Coz

tneY say LII Wise son tliul huoWS
his own father" / thought was
"wise" until cupid's darts began to
worry pa; then he didn't seem like
the same man.
But it wasn't pas fault he got
married. Pas awful handsome.
Any man that's handsome and a.
widower and has plenty of money
has n pretty hard time to keep from
getting married. All the un-
manned women in town are after
him. At least, they were all after
pa.
And, then, he tried to blame it on
me-he said | needed home and
someone to look after me, and all
that sort of rot. OF course that
meant he'd have to get married. /
caught on in a minute. j knew who
he had his eye on. She's been aw-
fully good to me lately.
/ suppose pa thought l was easy.
But 7 just fooled him. l told him
/ guessed we could get along all
right the way we were.
''But, my boy" said he. "If you
had home you could have dog"
I told him / didn't care much for
dogs any more.
"Well, then, you could have a
pony"
"Nope," says |. 81 don't like
ponies, either. But say, pop, how
about an automobilew
'I'll tell you, my boy. if you'll be
real sensible, and try to do things to
please me, I'll get you an automo-
bile"
] knew what that meant-but,
then, I'd do anything for an auto
mobile.
call right, pop says 1. 81
think it would be bully to keep
house. And then you'd have some
one to look after you when you get
sick
"That's the way like to hear you
talk, my boy" said he.
"Give me a nickel, pap"
/ knew / had him over a barrel
and he knew it too, so he ponied
up without even asking me what ]
wanted it for.
Pa and / lived in a hotel-and his
"girP' lived in a fiat across the
street. He and ! always took q
walk after dinner. But when he
got ready that evening ] told him
/ was tired and that he'd better gel
Miss Jane-that was his grip
and take her out for walk He
patted me on the shoulder and sale
he was sorry / didn't feel like go
ing, and that's the last | saw o.
him that evening.
But after that he began goins
to Miss James every evening. | go
tired of staying alone so | begal
, going with him. guess this wasn'
f very satisfactory to him-but
liked it pretty well. One evening h
gave me a quarter-(bet he though
it was nickel) and told me II
better go over to the hotel.
, Pa always said | had good hea'
for business, so after that ] mad
/ him this proposition: I'd go bac
I to the hotel.
At nine o'clock for 25 cents;
/, At ten o'clock for Is cents;
At II o'clock for ten cents.
, made 25 cents pretty nearl
every night that way.
: Then one night they went on
2 walking and left me at Miss jane
/ guess they had falling out, bt
5 cause they hadn't been gone lon
before they came back. Pa opene
the door and let Miss Jane in an
f then went away. This sort Of sul
prised Miss Jane-shc thought j
was coming in. She began to baw
/ told her it would be all right son
day. She said she just knew p.u
never come back. | supposed a
girls liked something romantic
? told Miss Jane that maybe pa
go jump in the bay like another di
, appointed lover had done that sun
mer. But that didn't seem to che
, her up very much, because 81
? bawled some more.
Then came the most disgustiI
part of all. Pa came backi | nev
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