The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-22
AUNT MARY QUITS
editur fioridy grower:

: SNss"' HoAAuy eAO"St
truth is sed tn be stronger ez
fschun, but elleck abramz californy
cunspeeracy liz stronger ez both NV
EN-. Sheep hev sum senc, but most
NV 1t cunsists in fOllerin the lede NV
sum old fule wether. the green fruit
err WIZ overturned by abrahamz and
hev gone stale on the public mind
the cuntinude rejecshun NV green or
enges in the eastern marketz show
ez how the green frute cOnveshun
rez0lushunz hazzent accomplish
what was eXpecterd NV EN- from the
abundenc NV the mouth abrahamz
speeketh.
bunny and hot bisket air gud eatin,
but most NV the green fruterz think
tina air tn swete. Bill Beevil sez a gud
menny Nv click abrahamz slobbern
remark sOundz like spit fryin dn a
stove. understood men allerz talk
loud, and. vociferuz ez i suppoze tina
hev tn, tn be considered ez men at
all. haven't much use for little men,
or men ez air mostly stummick, but
thare liz allerz sum woman ez takez
tn EN- fur sum unknown caus. vim.
men az rule air more perticler ez
men, and ez uther rule more onest
most men air proud NV thare children.
but the muthcrs hev tn glide and raize
EN-, and the wurst trubbel tina hey
tn cumtend with IL the inheritensez
tina git frlm tllare fatherz give
dun my hest by EN- ez evry muther
shud, and am proud tn say hevent
black sheep ur green orenge selln
wun amlln. en-. stick tn the old
home nest frum which tina hey all
flown and air now dOin well but /
hev gud naberz, and Bill Beevii IL
even better ez the guud samaritan
mcnshund in the bibel he duZZent
lux afteur the betherin and selln Nv
my frute ez charity, because pay
him fur it. he IL onsefish and hard
VIII MIL, anu M VIE anu CIllueTH
dOetz on him eZ the best and most
cheerfulest man ez evur lived in the
nalsIrhud NV Ovecdy, he scz he don't
mind rattel snakeZ and pOlecats, but |
hippercritz rilez him in most on
acountabel way he sez he nOze the |
sawyer put up with judas. and he sup.
pozes he shud not cit rawt up ez he |
duz with tho green frntc hippercritz. !
but when tina hire Il lawyer tn try III +
bamLuzel the pcepul. and denOunc
men hOoz shu strngZ tina air Onwllr-
thy tn ii, he Think it IL time for
oncst. fair minded pcepul tn spit out
tliare disapproval in emfattic lang.
widg, and vii he seq tina remind him /
NV lot nv bawlin cav more ez en-
nything els. and he hez tn laff every
time he seeze Saur Orenge 20 by, Il
he seq when Tempel sent up that
green frute rocket that the hole cum.
try seed it. and the fire cracker the
green frute crowd tuched off wuzzent
seed by ennybody but tharselves so
fur eZ reZult hrO
sence riting the abuv hev seed in
the paperz cz how Tempel hez extend.
ed his forgiveness tn sum Nv the vio-
laterz Nv the green frute law and Bill
Beevil seq he dun jest rite in duen il.
ez tn furgiv IL devine. and Tempel
ken afford tn du II ez he hez wrn the
fife. and IL now shown the magnan.
nous side NV his nacher. reasonin
frum this nobel eXampel | feel how
II wud not be becomin in me tn speek
even the onkind truth cz hez not yit
bin all sed by me Nv theze misguided
and hPving allerz made
It a rule never tn speak Ill NV the ded.
| shell put away my pen in the burow
drawer. and leeve en- tn rest In peece
ez long ez tina don't show sign nv
canning back tn life and thare old
wayz. Sour Orcnge IL my distant ma
bur, and but fur the habutz he fell
intu wud be gud man i'm most luther
way. click abraham and josh chase
live in Jacksonville and cant be sed
HI be naburz. but shell let the tale
20 with the bids. and Civ EN- all sur
ices NV sOrrO eZ long ez tina air tryin
IA he gud, IL the furgiving opinyun NV
Aunt Mary
NV oyeedy.