Connecticut western news., 1908-03-05

dare say word out loud and most of lem was skippin' every other breath fer feer the woman empire would give 'em the calD that his mind was workln' on the idee of putin in claim for git tin back the price of admission.
 "Fergit it'' says I, "good things comes in small bundles plenty of times"
 Them Sharonites want much on quantity that's fact but had it drove into me noddle some time ago that ap- pearances is deceivin' lots of times.
 The woman empire grlpped the chime whistle between her teeth and made the sign to send the ball her way. And 1t come like a streak of greased lightnln' and Red give jump fer fear it would drive the whistle down her throat. Most wimmen would have lodged and let it light on one of the bald heads on the side bleachers. But she didn't. She was right there with the goods
 She put up both wings just like she
 was doin' a tizzical culture stunt in the Academy of Music and gathered ill the ball as easy's you n me would take 8 puff on a Turkish Trophy Me n
 Red both made up our minds twas like takin' trip back to the old homestead fer her to git on the basket ball floor and was both hopin' she'd git in the game durin' the second spasm but she didn't.
 She give out that the scramble was due to begin and the graceful way she give that a ball chuck into the air would have done your heart good. Down it come and as the Sharon centre had the height and the ounces. she jabbed it bang on the periphery q got that out of a book. I don't know what 1t means and neither do you) and away 1t went. Now what happened after that I han't goin' to attempt to tell. They was plenty of goins' on all the time for 20 minutes. The ball was flyin' here and there and everywhere it wenN they was usually pair of blue and a pair of red panta- 'scuse me, I mean bloomers-right alongside it or under it or on it or agin' it, in some way or other. One time when tho girl with the red panta- boomers, was huggin' 1t like a man tryin' not to let go of Q greased pig, tall occupant of 8 pair of blue pa-bloomers tried little Marquis of Gooseberry rule but the woman empire was on her job and footed fer down brakes This was foul and give Sharon chance to try to git the ball 1n the basket but they drew blank be- cause the ball went somewheres else and then the scramble begun again. Then they was more fouls and more toots and once in while one of the girls would give the ball hist that would put it Ill the basket. Then the crowd would pull out the double forty stop and yell like & pack of Apaches and the woman empire didn't say nothin' to it because she see they want no use.
 Bime by when they was unusual lively mixup of blue and red panta- boomers, few fellows on the bleaehers would forgit they. was playin' a silent part and would let out -'shoot it," or "pass it'' or somethln' else. The wo- man empire let it go fer time or two then she footed fer 8 stop and got off an other of them graduation things the one what comes along on the hlnd end, just before the president of the school board, feelin' uncomfortable in a spike tail coat and clean shirt, gifts up and doses out the sheepskins, vallydic-won one o'them things anyway. And she done it as easy as a parson would tell his flock that the deacons would now pass among lem with the boxes on the end of black walnut stick and take up a collection to buy neckties for the heathens with and that he wanted lem to dig down deep into their jeans. She told de gang that by George Wash-no, come to think, guess she didn't say it that way-but anyhow she said that no course of instruction on playin' basket ball wasn't necessary from them on the outside, that the girls had had that handed to 'em at home before they come to play and that one thing they got into the scramble for was to show that they had been through the coulse of sprouts Them want just the words she used but that's what she meant. She put it smoother n that. just like she had studied it all out and rehearsed it to home before she come, just like kid gittin' ready to speak "Mary had little sheep" the last day of school. But I've got a monstrous idee that she made it all up right there while she was a sayin' it, that it come sort o'-sort o'-where's 8 word that'll fit?-sort O spontaneous like, that's the one, spontaneous. And say, it done the business. They want a twitter after that though some of lem as had handkerchiefs had to stuff 'em in their mouths in order to keep their boxes from gettin' into xrOrkiu' order ouoip