The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1912-09-13
Breaking the
News

Papa" began Bobby, after dinner,
does 1t cost very much to build
house?"
His father laid down the newspaper
he was reading and considered the
question.
1T depends, OF course, on how big |
a house you want to build and how |
deep your purse u.s." he said at length. |
Are you thinking OF building a
house?"
i've been thinking about how much
1t COSTS" Bobby said. And I 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 al
ways puts prices up awful high. Gee,
wisht 1t wouldn't rain such a lot.
We don't hardly get outdoors any"
tits rather hard on baseball and
picnics. isn't it?"
well, we amt had any plans for
picnics yet, hardly. Billy says our
room at school oughter get up one,
but he begins talking picnics soon's
Christmas is over. Nellie Fosters had
one all thought out long ago, but 1t
amt fair to get up one that way.
II amt in 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 fish. 1t 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 don'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 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 Mary's street. Gee, that's going
some, the way he talks"
Il don't like that sort of boy, my
self"
ooh well, he amt so bad" Bobby
said, hastily. "He don't say 'em, you
know. He just knows 'em and keeps
still. Only he told some words to us
fellers wunst and they're worse thar
I 'dinged He's a swell player, only he
I gets sore when the fellers butt in
You see, the fellers get SO excited
they pick up the ball and throw it II
when they amt on the team at all
and it makes him awful sore. ! don
blame him, do you?"
mo. | should think not. They hav
no business to touch the ball"
"Well, he made me crazy talking
about houses. 1t was him started M
and Jimmy talking and he said house
often cost more'n thousand dollars
He said you divide up thousand dol
lars into winders and doors and you''
find door cost heap He said Their
was about twenty winders In thi
house. Is there?"
81 don't think I ever counted them
You might count them some day, jus
for fun"
well, anyhow, he said he coul'
count 'em from where he was and h
bet each winder upstairs cost 81 an
cellar winder cost at least 81.
y amt ever heard anything so foolish
y have your"
q at was perhaps a rather high est
y mate. Some day when we are over a
l. the glaciers we might ask him jus
p out of curiosity how much one Of on
IS windows cost A cellar window, fo
70 instance"
10 81 thought maybe we might go owe
d that way this evening if it stoppe
q. raining" Bobby said hopefully. "Yo
ii amt had lot of walking today, hay
IL your"
Not great deal"
"Billy says burglars always get
\ through cellar winders. Do they?"
mot any oftener than through 9th,
y windows"
N "Once would be often for me-" Bo
/, by sighed. BALLS go through winde
~ awful often, l think"
so ball went through one, did I
GU I hope 1t wasn't where the boy wou
get himself into serious trouble
GU mo, sir. That's the nice part abo
It," Bobby slid sheerfully. ut W
No our window 1t went through, just
:, easy, this morning"
iiS "Our window? Did the boy feel 81
ry? 1 suppose he offered to pay?"
- 'Tm-well, Pm offering now" Bob
stammered. at was me."-Chica
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