The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-12-10

10 HIS JOD, OUT L WanC you 10 uuQeI
stand one thing-never again! No
any more, / won tolerate such
business. Not much. You tell vi
cla that her mans out Of Jail and
OH the job again, and at the same
time You want to give her fair and
square warning that but he was
so terrltically in earnest about the
rest of it that couldn t make out q
word that he said.
Did YOU ever hear of such a bluff
fer in all your born lays, as my hus.
band is?"
! "Oh, they're all like that,'' put
in the woman with the prematurely
gray hair and the fresh young face
Il think it is because they are just
crazy over the sound Of their voices
The only way is to let 'em shout and
below and roar and then 60 right a.
head aid do what you've been in
tending to do right long. They
must let off steam, you know, the
poor, blustery creatures.
"a few Sundays ago the ice
cream didn't come in time lor din
ner. Ny husband made an awful fuss
about it, and when the boy did bring
the ice cream, about an hou1 after
we'd finished dinner, he rounded on
the lad something awful. Asked him
what the something or other he meant
by loafng on his job that way, and
threatened to have him fired and all
that, and finally the ice cream boy
broke down and began to dash at his
eyes with his cap.
'' Me brudder was pinched las
night, the boy mumbled through his
sobs, and I been spendin' most o.
me time al day tryin' t. spring him.
'' ITO spring hing my husband
demanded Of the lad. what do you
mean by springing hing
q 'T' git him OUT said the ice
cream boy, still wiping away at his
eyes. with his poor old cap. 4 been
t. see McGolligan,' naming the dis
lrict leader, only that isn't the dis
trict leaders, name, an McGooligan
he trun me. He wouldn't do nuttin' );
t spring me brudder. An he'll have
tO do his bit
- Tell that to Sweeney!' said my /
husband, who becomes terribly slangy !
when he is angry, but then he began !
TO ask the ice cream boy questions
and presently he had the story.
1.-The lads brother had been il a
stone fight wit his gang the night .
before and had been one of the vic :
inns when the policemen made their
,woop. The brother was "a kid wot
alwus woiked, and his arrest would
be ah ard blow on the 'mudder, who
hadn't yet been told anything about
it.
50 That S a swell bunch Of hum
bugs my husband growled at the !
boy. Here, you sit down here in |
the kitchen and I'll find out about
this. If you've been trying to string
ne I'll come pretty near dancing
you in way that you won't like !
and then he went to the telephone
and called up MeGooligan, the dis
trict leader.
"McGooligan told him to wait a
minute while he called up the police
station, and presently the district
eader called up my husband again. !;
Then my husband shot back to the
kitchen where the dismal looking
ce cream boy still sat wiping away
At his eyes with his cap.
I" Here, yo4,' my husband said to
he boy, that kid brother Of yours
las been turned loose and is on his
way home. Now, you beat it and
yet on the job again, understand? I
Won't have you fred for fetching
ne a mess Of ice cream fifteen or
wenty hours late this time, but if
'ou ever pull anything like that on
ne again-and the rest of it was
omewhat inarticulate.
"Whenever he gets caught in the
ct Of doing something real nice and
ind he always talks all the louder
nd with an additional imitation Of
wrath in order to make out that his
ositon has been right from the be-
inning and that he hasn't receded
fraction Of an inch from it. And
he pathetic part Of it. is that the
'oor ridiculous things never know
ow absurd they are, do they?" :.
''Last spring. put in another of
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