The sun., 1909-05-02

called a little pifiinE eflrnent. i was
downright sick-sick as q human Peme
could be- and there WASN'T any ppsstbiuty
Of my being able TO conceal It from you.
II there had been any such chance you
bet I'd have taken Il, for ! might have
known burned well that yaad throw "
up to me the first chance you got,
Anyhow. you're trying that old gas OF
shifting the thing over TO me, and ! IND
that I'm stiil idiot enough TO permit you
TO get away with that sohetne.
We we're conversing, you'll rememher.
about Your peculiar and none too dainty
habit Of fotching up tire subject OF your
and even when there isn't any occasion
for it. and don't intend TO be switched o1
or sidetrac,xed till I get through with
that subject. I'm not under the gun at
the present moment. please understand;
We're % discus,sing yS%S and what you call
Howe thati Why continue to, talk
ject, do you say! 49,.
Now. don't tfy to shut me up that way,
because II Isn't going to do. 1t isn't
Going to do at ali. guess I haven't
Yet sacrificed the right to open my mouth
around here.
Anyhow. you brought this shing up
learned, but not. am bound 10 say, en-
tirely edifying remarks on the subject
of callous feet-your callous feet.
Since you insist upon sticking to that
subject, permit me to nudge In the humble
observation that it's q strange thing that
/ don't ever have any such 2 thing ~ cal
that I'd DO the osllovs sses rropSestsoa
Of this family. consider1nk that l do
something with my feet Hight a,onE-
hoof It around from morning fiil hi0t
attending to business, and all that sort
Of thing. Well, there never has been any
thing calious about my feet. Far be 1t
from me TO brae. but I never dragged q
So you expect me to hang around this
Internal, gloomy, study. SUNLESS nat al
day to-day, do you, Wheti everybody
on earth knows that anythins'l be out In
'Af How's O that, You wouldn't mind at al
II I'd 70 out into tho country Tor . wAn
That's a ane proposition, I must ~,
Great! Can't endure to have me around
this dump for few hours on Sunday, hoy
II has come to that, has it7
Huh1 You only ,sasgs.bed nv go!ne
alone because you thought I'd enjoy the
tramp 10 the opena That's what they
all say; but you're not going TO ohaes
me. YOU KNOW. j u0Uuu10 W W OsssDOA'
I'll stick around hero ~ long - ! please
and you needn't look gloomy and sad and
sweet over 1t either. 1900.
DANCED pretty note I must, cay when
q woman becomes 20 selfish that she In
sists upon having . whole blooming ten
room apartment 10 hsrseR all the dime
including Sundays! I'd be q nice look.
ing mutt, wouldn't /, tramping through
the woods with not Soul to tak tor
lad q lonesome enough Me a. It u.
have nobody to talk to at homo on the
kind Of topics that caro- 70 talk ABOUT
can't get you interested In anything
that interests me and yo1 aoa's s*se /:
hang, that's the plain truth; whcther
Get any pleasure or satisfaotton out OF
NV home life or not; and that'a Why there
isn't q loneeomer fellow Ia this name
town than I am even when I'm 10 my OWE
homo. Yes, that's Why.
The next tims danpe around here ikt
a BIZ lunmox Of fool Nswfoundhud ply
and invite you b take . Sunday vail
with me In the oounty-weh. you Won
have callous feet whom that ,ne1t ttms
comes around. because there isn't goinl
to be any merit time. ] can find peopls
to take walks with, don't you worry Sbou'
that--people that d bS clad 70 wan
with me, and won't have bit Of trouble
in digging them up sitheri