Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-16
THE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
IN THE TELEPHONE BOOTH.

Hello! That you, Harriet? Yeh, this
is Bessie. oh, fair to middling. Amt
it something fierce the weather were
havin'. I sh'd say. When you comm
over? What?
why, l just was at your house to
stay a week. Now it's your turn.
don't see what made you think was
coming back.
Say, was to a valentine dance
since L seen you. 1 sh'd say. Hearts
strung across the room like wash and
cake with fortunes in. What?
"Yeh. 1 got the ring. Charlie? Now,
what do you want to know about that
You needn't get too funny, for he amt
even wrote to me since he went on the
road this time. 1 got eight valentines
and some vi'lets to the party. What
Yeh, my blue dress. I fixed it up a
lot and it looked swell, I can tell you.
Mr.. Ford said it certainly had a air
OF its own ii was that distinguished.
Say! 1 was on the car today when
In waltzed this here Mrs. Atwood and
sat right by me. And maybe she did
MT take more'n half the seat too. Yeh,
Sans mother / knew that'd get you
going. Sure, I talked to her. I sh'd
say. 1t was great She told me all
about the girl Sans going to marry,
and, say, she must be sprouting wings.
What?
why, there amt anything that girl
can't do, 'clrding to her. Cook, sew,
paint china, play the piano, write
potry-mercy! 1 most fell over Never
wanted to laugh so bad in all my lifel
And the swell fiat they'd got! And
the furncheri What do you think she
handed out to me when she got up to
go? She says the best of it IS she's
the only girl her son has ever cared
about! That, to mel OF course she
thinks so and I wasn't going to spoil
It, she was so awful tickled, only it
made me almost laugh.
Il was up to see Lena's baby Yeh,
some. More like him, though-big
mouth and yeller hair. She's going to
call him Augustus. I do know. Took
1t out Of her head, guess. She always
has been great on being fancy ever
since her sister went on the stage. Oh,
l do know. I guess she don't say
much in any kind of a play. Lena
says she's in one now whre she comes
in with a brass dish and says, "A gen.
tleman, miss Lena says that's doing
we'll and she thinks her sister is aw-
full smart. but It looks slow to me. 1
wouldn't be real crazy over taking
servants part. How much do you
suppose they give her? What?
ooh, I Co know; 1 was just wonder
ing. rye thought some o. goin' on the
stage myself.
Yeh. i've thought Of a whole lot of
things. but I do know. I'm tired of
doing nothing. I guess I'm sort O.
down. Well, no, not blue exactly, but
not very lively. I guess it's the
weather.
Il was to show, but it wasn't aw-
full funny. The Teller I was with, he
thought it was swell but I didn't give
a cent for it. And that's no joke. nei-
Their. Why, the Teller met cross the
lake last summer, you know. Swell
dancer, but he can't talk for sour
apples. sh'd say not. He amt in
terestin' like some folks know.
What?
"I didn't say Charlie; I was thinking
Of a whole lot of fellers met off'n on.
don't care a snap about Charlie; II
he don't want to write he needn't to.
He amt the only pebble on the beach.
But Mr.. Donovon-yeh, that's his
name. Well, say, you'd oughter heard
him laugh. He certainly got his
moneys worth. like a Teller to laugh
Kind Of classy. Oh. I don't know, diff
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