The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-07
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Morning, Leo"

morning, Leo.
Jaw, g'wan; can't you manage to do
better than that? Everybody in town
says thus to me every morning, and
it's getting stale"
"All right. crouch; but what do you
know about the way that Alice Lord
of Seattle, handed it to President
Kaser last night? Wasn't that rich,
and didn't the president find out to
his hearts content that woman al
ways has the last word? 1 hope he
did,
(Which probably calls for a long de-
sertation from you on the subject of
keeping quiet when a woman wants
the floor?"
NO Leo, I've graduated beyond that
point. But, old kiddo, 1 had one whale
of a time this morning as a result of
the premeditated cold snap that Gro
yer handed out, and for the remaining
nights of this spell l propose to camp
alongside the stove, a shovel in my
hand and a bucket of coal in close
proximity And if that cussed fire
goes out, Leo, 1 hereby notify you it
won't be my fault. You see, / was
broke in wrong, like many other mar
ried men. and shortly after the we'd
ding the question arose as to who
ing and start the heat producer. OF
course L was outclassed in the argu-
emnts that followed, and yours truly
may be found bright and early every
day, chasing himself out into the back
lot in his stocking feet looking for
chips. This fair dawn was no eXcep-
ton, and on quitting the alfalfa, your
humble servant made haste to don
such articles of wearing apparel as
were most convenient, then got busy
with the little Ratchet. BY dint of
clever operation enough chips We're
forthcoming from the clothes line post
to coax the incipient blaze into the
semblance of fire; but I'll be teto-
tally chawed up into little chunk of
dog meat, hammered down with a meat
AK, ground into bologna sausage and
fed to the cats if that blooming match
wasn't frozen so hard that there was
nothing doing until 1 had thawed it
out by holding it firmly in my palms.
| Then after l had litten the dope in
the fre-box, the heat actually froze in
! to Jumps and emanated from the
| smokes stack in chunks. One of the
| blocks scared through the air and
! broke one of my neighbor's windows
and I've got that bill to pay Finally
| though. Il did get the blasted blazes to
burning, when, to my sorrow, the wa
| ter refused to run.
Remember, Leo, all this time wiley
had reclined on her downy couch, is
suing commands. instructions. and tell
| ing me how to do this and that; but
after laboring diligently for more than
an hour in the endeavor to thaw out
! the water pipe, I gave it up and
crawled back into bed, telling the old
| girl that if she wanted a fire and some
| breakfast, it was up to her.
She didn't say much. but I could
see that she was mad. Without more
words she rolled out into the cold
with a look of shivering martyr on
her face, wrapped the draperies OF
| her sex about her. and as ducked
| down under the covers, I could hear
her little bare feet hitting the kitch-
en- floor with awful thumps Present
| ly the stove ratified; a lid was lifted
off, and within a few minutes the odo1
Of burning coal-oil was waited to my
hiding place-she had solved the fir,