The Delta independent., 1908-08-07
getting ready to make garden again
this year"

getting ready to make garden again
this year"
Begins at Him.
Eyes, mother dear"
"Well, let 1t alone Last summer
you mad the back yard all torn up for
nothing. All your raised was one old
tomato and about 400 cats. Drop it."
"Yes, mother"
"Every year about this time you
begin to figure on keeping chickens. l
suppose you have got the chicken
fever this year?'
well, 1 did think of getting about
two dozen Leghorns."
"Then don't do any more thinking.
l won't have Sarah annoyed by a lot
of chickens around"
'Tll drop the idea, mother"
You may be thinking of a new
milk COW"
"Yes, l have been. We could have
our own milk and butter. you know.
and 1t would seem homelike to have a
COW around. If you have no objec-
tions, mother, darling"
But l have objections l snapped
at him. You just let the COW bust.
ness drop. No one but an idiot would
think of keeping COW in a city"
Just as you say"
And ! was reading in the papers
about your joining the Gay Old Boys
club and letting them make a fool of
you. You ought to be ashamed of
yourself"
"Ies, mother, am, and l will never
attend another meeting of the club.
They got me in under pretense that
President Roosevelt was member
and then stood me on my head and
poured ice water down my back"
l wasn't getting along as well as /
expected and saw that l must adopt
more heroic remedies. Therefore.
after a minute. said:
Il learn that you are thinking of
writing Il play?'
Yes; l have had some talk with
Sarah about it, but nothing definite
has been arrived at. / believe that |
could write a successful play"
well. l don't. don't believe you
could come within 400 miles of it.
You have got no more dramatic talent
about You than an old goat
''lS that your belief, mother?" he
asked
certainly it IS"
"Then will throw the idea overheard.
l thought l was brimful OF dramatic
talent, but if you say not then that
settles it. How glad l am that you
came To tell me this before I had gone
ahead with the work.
And Sarah says that you are scrib-
bling away at what you call a poem
and YOU hope TO startle the world with
II. Is this a fact?"
Derides His Ability.
why, l am scribbling little on a
poem
Then you stop scribblinC. It's all
nonsense. You can no more write Il
poem than a bullfrog can play the
jewsharp.'
Really. mother?"
"of course you can't. You had bet
ter spend your time hunting for mouse
holes. Are you going out anywhere to
night:'
mo. mother darling am going tC
stay right here and entertain you"
You might so to your bowling club,
| suggested. hoping TO get him out o.
the wsy for Il couple of hours
Il have resigned from it. l thought
II wasn't right for me to run out nights
and leave Sarah alone
Then in desperation | asked him &c
90 to saloon and get me bottle ot
beer and not to hurry back with II. He
Went, and 1t was two hours before he
returned. We heard him whoop as ht
entered the gate. and when l ran down
and let him in ii was with positive
relief that l saw him stagger back to
the wall and. after winking and blink.
ing for moment. heard him exclaim:
SHAY, now, but who In thunder iu,
vited you TO come down here? We got
old cats nun in the back yard nowr'
Moral.-lf you are husband be
good. but don't be too goody good.
NJ. QUAD.