The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17
LITTLE.
Boobies PA
By WILLIAM F. KIRK

There was trubbei up to our house
last mite about a piano. the niano was
in the fiat right oaver our fiat g. the
lady was all the time playing. When
ia cain hoam Ell had he'd axe g. his
eyes looked heavy.
Poor deer, sed Ma. Poor darling
boy How hard you do work, Ma sed
& how few thoughts | give to yurs
silent hours of faithful endevver down
IN that horrid offs | called Won nm
to-day when | was feeling sorry for
you, q thay sed you had Just went
out, but that you would be rite back
My poor darling, sed ma, you must
take long vacashun sum of these
days. 1t must be terribul strain on
you, this constant thought.
Pa looked at Ma kind of funny. pa
isent used to heering Ma talk that
way & he KEEP looking at her. Do Won
meen it? sed Pa finally.
OF course | meen it sed Ma Deer
knight wich cain & took me off to
this enchanted palace, yure welfare
Is ever first in my thought For
you | have lived. Ma sed. & for Won
| shall die. Bless yure deer tired
eyes, sed Ma, wish that terribul pia
no up stares wud stop pounding
away, e. give you a chanst to rest
! knew wen that young hussy moved
In that we wud have no peace or
rest.
Is she a young hussy? asked Pa.
She is, sed Ma. Vary young? Pa
asked. Well. sed Ma, she is passed
the broiler age. but she still retains
traces of her girlish buty. Why do
you ask? Ma sed.
Newer mind. sed Pa. | am going
up stares to interrogait her about why
she leeves herself play the piany at
all hours of the mite. | wuddent cair
SO much, sed Pa, if she played the
old classick peeces, like LISTS Rap
sodas or line afrade to go hoam in
Twilight, but if she is disturbing my
luving wife, | want to know it.
The worst thing that she plays, sec
" i4tll gus vi NY utlNtS. Is
Love you as | Newer Loved Beefoar
| amt vary keen for that kind o
rhapsody, sed Ma, & ! wish she wut
cut it out Did she sing that awful
ballad? sed Pa. That old chestnut
Wait till | go up stares & ree-buk'
her about it. In the first plais. Pi
sed. it is not good lyrick. That stui
about Since first | met 70 on TIL
village green is a rank appel to tn
mushy side of the hart & brane. p
sed. & that line Cum to me luv, 0
Luv's sweet dream IS Ger. Pa sed, i
all to the bush league.
Then Pa went up stares & wen h
was gone Ma KEEP ON talking to m
about the young lady witch was u
stares & how foolish she was. ! be
yure father will cell her down goo
& hard sed Ma. good & Plenty. Ths
is one % thing about yure fathel
sed Ma. witch l have to respeck. H
certainly will not stannd for anybod
witch harms my peace of mind.
You see. Bobbie sed Ma. ofte
have to ree-buke your father wen
is littel bit wild but he has kin
& honest hart witch beets under meet
his vest. & he is always trying to d
the best he can for you & me. He
a awful rounder. | will admit. sed NJ
& he often throws his sense of Dut
to the winds. & he wares the sail
collar two (2) days wen he cud g
a new one % for the price of ST
gel li-bashun, but otherwise he is
rite. Ma sed, & you & me ought
luv him vary much He will be BAG
down stares in a minnit. Ma sed. a
ter having called that piano playir
lady down, & then we will both te
him how good he is to us. Who
that singing? sed Ma, all of sud
ing
1t was Pas voice This is what
was singing:
| luv you as | newer luved bee-foa
Since first met you on the villas
green.
Cum to me onst aggen or all is oe
luv you as | luved you wen We WI
sweet sixteen tl6).
Then Ma raped hard onn the stee
pipe & Pa cain rite down stare
Ma is going up to see the young lac
! piano player. herself, tomorrow NOR
| ing