Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-01-26
Billy Writes
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Dear dad. wrote Billy. II got here
MI right night before last and meant
20 write yesterday. the way mother
said 10 do. but ! was awful busy. Say.
the country II great nov Aunt Phil
said II ! didn't write today mother
would worry and she said II wrote
4 real long letter she'd have cherry
pie for dinner.
They were ali az the station 70
meet me. Aunt Phi and Aunt Anna
and Aunt LAvinia- was kind " scr
~ they ook the trouble. for the news
boy on the train saw them hugging
and kissing me. and he staggered. ne
was u smArty and be called me . VII
lie boy. because ne found out that
mother bad asked the brakeman TO
see changed cars AL right al the
junction.
II wish women didn't fuss 80 about
little things like a boy travelling alone.
And ! wish mother wouldn't make me
yea tan stockings. They're awful
sissy and any fellow you ask will tell
you 20. Those yellow stockings OF
mine almost spoiled my trip and they
got torn hat night when ! "a yanK-
Ing them or 10 get 20 bed IN a hurry.
because | wanted 20 get up early and
e box things looked By daylight
Aunt Anne says ! mustn't whistle on
the porch before half past TX morn
ings. guess she's a poor sleeper.
I'm going barefoot all the time
nov. 80 don't let mother send any
more tan stockings. III wear black
ones m the fall when ! 20 home. I
can stay all summer can't I. dad? Ny
legs are getting fine and tanned al
ready. but Aunt Lavinia-you know.
she's kind 0f fussy-says n I scratch
my mosquito bites she'll insist on my
wearing shoes and stockings. I wish
you'd write to her that It's healthy 20
60 barefoot and tell her you don't
care n | 90 IN swimming twice a day.
She thinks once ~ enough.
When you write me send about a
dollar and a halt 70 pay for a poor
little pig That died on the farm near
a.. TX vas awful sad aud strange how
that pig died. Another boy and me
was chasing him just a little. for u
was awful cute. running and squeai-
INK, and Il got sick right away and
died. and the farmer-he's "a pretty
mean man-says one of us has got to
49, N~m AZ 81 a.. nskA~ 49, hmumfN
any way TO get money. Amt Il funny
now little pigs can't stand hardly any
exercise
Please send the money Don You
might send up a box OF candy. too.
like that q you had me bring up
here to my aunts. / thought I'D just
open II On the train and try a piece.
and there were two Kids sitting near
me and they wanted some. too. and
after we'd eaten some there wasn't
enough left TO look like anything. 30
We just ate Il nll and | threw the boz
out of the car window. n forgot 10 tell
you. too. that I lost my hat cut OF the
car window. It's awful windy riding
on the train. I'm sorry about the
candy. mt you see how II happened
Tell mother I'm real square about
doing all the things she said Aunt
Anne reminded me TO brush my teeth
today. but she needn't have reminded
me. for ! WAS just a-going 20 do H.
And It'll read some every day In that
book mother gave me
I'm practicing swimming and n
you come up III surprise you and
mother hy swimming across the lake
Aunt IArinia a. awful particular about
my wearing both parts oi my bathing
suit That boy who was chasing the
pig with ms says it's girly around hers
wear % much clothes In swimming
lie goes III naked w.th boys. but 81
course. lin never a. that. for Aunt
Lavinia would have q AZ n she found
Il out