The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-25

/ all right. I've got no KICK a-COmlnS
Pm only part of the system, that's all
and of course no one man can hope
| to change a system, or even put q
| dent in it,
Say. by the way, what's become OF
/ that gray suit had last year? 1 wish
| you'd dig it out today and send it to
the cleaners and have it
Huh? How's that? What? YOU
Z; We sold it! Sold it!
wait a moment. Let me get this
| right. Let me hang on to my self
don't want to get nutty if I Ca,
help it.
! Now dye mean to sit there and
| tell me that you nave deliberately
maliciously, inadvertently gone tic
work and sold that suit of clothes fol
IS cents or something. that I only
wore about ten times all told last
| year?
Whats that? l wore that gray
suit when | went up the Potomac
fishing last fall, and it was all worn
out and unfit to be fixed up again?
Oh, say, be so good as not to sit there
and tell me stuff like that. Kindly
don't do it, | can stand a heap but
there's a heap, too that l cannot and
will not stand.
/ 1T just happens that that was the
finest suit of summer clothes / ever
owned in my whole life, and l was
so careful of it that-well, what dye
think of that! If l wore that suit o.
clothes more than a dozen times at
the very outside last summer then l
belong to ST. Elizabetn's.
why. say. i wouldn't take fifty
dollars for that suit as it was on the
day | last took it off, and here. just
because you happened to want so
cents for caramels or something, you
deliberately dragged it out and hand
ed it to a grinning o:d clothes man.,
without ever SO much as giving me a
thought. Well, WELL we'll! And me
looking forward to wearing that suit
for two or three years yet, and
Hun? | told you that that suit
never fitted me. and l threatened to
ste the tailor because he wouldn't
refund me the money on it. and
changed my tailor on account of it,
and
Well we'll, what's the use. What's
the use? What kind of a ten-cent
dream book do you get all of this
stuff out of these days. anyhow?
There you go. sniviling of course.
That's weapon you all use when
you're in a corner-tears.
Sure thing. AS soon as you play
all the hob YOU can. and perpetrate
every Internal injustice on a man that
YOU can think of. way you pull that
teal gag on him. and you're just
crafty enough to know that it wins in
about nineteen cases out of twenty.
What's that? | am unjust, and
pick on you? On, of course Of
course | pick on you. I'm the abys
nal brute. All that | ask in the world
is little bit of common consider
alton at your hands. and you come
out and say l pick on you.
That's d pretty nard crack to make
al man. I'm telling you that I'd
rather have anything else in the world
said of me tslan that | pick on wo-
man
"Oh. say. cut out tnat crying bus
mess. won't YOU?
There's no occasion in the world
fOr II. EVeryth1ngS all right. Or
course. if you say you didn't say any
thing about NV little game of inno-
cent poker, why, it's all right II
goes. It's got to go.
There. there come on buck up
and stop those weeps.
I'm late for the office already Say
it makes YOUR nose as red as the
dickens to do that. and I'd like to
nave YOU show me woman that
can make hit with a red nose
"All right. I'll be back for dinner
at the regular time. And. say. please
have something fit to eat today for
dinner, won't you? The steak YOU
dished up last evening was pretty
bum. All right. Goodbye
"Of course | wish | had that suit
o clothes. but as long as it's-Oh,
we'll. never mind. I'm on my way.
Better not keep up that weep gag all
day or you'll run dry o tears. I'd
like to know what ails you. anyhow
Nobody said a word to you. Well
good bye!"