The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-08-22
Breaking the
News

Papa" began Bobby, after dinner,
does it cost very much to build az
house?"
His father laid down the newspaper
he was reading and considered the
question. l
1t depends, of course, on how big
a house you want to build and how
deep your purse is" he said at length.
Are you thinking Of building a
house,"
I've been thinking about how much
it COSTS" Bobby said. And l wonder
ed. There's so many winders and
doors and things. OF course, parlor
winders cost more'n cellar winders,.
cause they're made of better glass
Now, Jimmy, he says some parlor
winders cost 81, but then Jimmy all
ways puts prices up awful high. Gee,
I wisht 1t wouldn't rain such a lot.
We don't hardly get outdoors any"
Its rather hard on baseball and
picnics, isn't it,"
picnics yet. hardly. Billy says our
room at school oughter get up one.
but he begins talking picnics soon'si
Christmas is over. Nellie Fosters had,
one all thought out long ago, but it.
amt fair to get up one that way
81 amt in a awful hurry for any.
picnics longs it's so wet. It's baseball,
that I'm looking for. I'd like to know,
how anybody could run in all the
mud, less'n he was a fish. It was
baseball started me thinking about,
houses an things like that"
II suppose your idea was to build
a grandstand to protect the baseball
fans. Is that it?" asked the father.
"N-not exactly" Bobby acknowl-
edged You see, we dop't get any
fans 'cept fellers that don't want to-
sit down They get so excited they
just jump up and down, an run all
around. Jimmy he's a swell player
this year. We was playing yesterday
and this morning before it started in
to rain in the same dinged old way"
Hold on, That's no way to talk"
"Why, 'dinged' isn't bad You just
oughter hear that Teller from over on,
Aunt Marys street. Gee, that's going
some, the way he talks"
q don't like that sort of boy, my
self"
"Oh, well, he amt so bad" Bobby
said, hastily. He don't say EN-, you
know. He just knows EN- and keeps,
still. Only he told some words to US
fellers wunst and they're worse than
'dinged' He's a swell player, only he
gets sore when the fellers butt in.
You see, the fellers get so excited
they pick up the ball and throw it in
when they amt on the team at all,
and it makes him awful sore. | don't
blame him, do you?"
mo. should think not They have
no business to touch the ball"
well he made me crazy talking
about houses. 1t was him started me
and Jimmy talking and he said houses
often cost moren thousand dollars.
He said you divide up a thousand dol
lars into winders and doors and you'd
find a door cost a heap. He said there
was about twenty winders in this
house. Is there"
81 don't think ! ever counted them.
You might count them some day, just
for fun"
well. anyhow, he said he could
count 'em from where he was and he
bet each winder upstairs cost 81 and
a cellar Winder COST at least 80
amt ever heard anything so foolish.
have you?"
1T was perhaps a rather high esti-
mate. Some day when we are over at
the GLACIERS we might ask him just
out of curiosity how much one of our
windows cost. \ cellar window, for
instance"
81 thought maybe We might go over
that way this evening if it stopped
raining" Bobby said hopefully. You
amt had a lot of walking today, have
you?"
Not a great deal
Bllly says burglars always get IN
through cellar windeTs. Do they?"
Not any oftener than through other
windows"
once would be often for me-" Bob
by sighed Balls go through winders
awful often, [ think"
so ball went through one, did it?
I hope it wasn't where the boy would
get himself into serious trouble"
NO, sir. That's the nice part about
it, Bobby said cheerfully 1T was
our window. 1t went through, just as
easy, this morning"
Our window? Did the boy feel sor-
ry? l suppose he offered to pay?"
"Tm-well, I'm offering now" Bobby
stammered. 1T was me"-Chicago
Daily News.