The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-14
Raising Ell.

the bunch that hung around; we
didn't have anything to do, nor did
we want anything to do. We Just lived
on the old man, or were bunch that
lived on their wits as best they can.
NV mother used TO talk TO me OF
how [ was below my level, and my
father used to corner me up and give
me the very devil; my girl Ia nice
girl was she) began to lose interest in
me to such degree that well, why.
| Just put things together-such as
mothers pleadngs and fathers rails
ing Cain, and the way my girl inti-
mated that l was going insane, TIL ]
took hunch and cut the whole bloom.
ing bunch OF lounger-around down in
my town.
got lob in store; got $500
per: wouldn't pay any more; boarded
at home: and decided that it was no
more than right that settle for my
lod dsing every Saturday night
Somehow | got to staying home at
nights, and they way l used to study
ran up the bill for lights.
Mother told me that now was get
tinE on my level: and father, WELL eh
ceased to raise the devil; and my girl,
one Sunday afternoon when We were
walking round, Looking at the sights
of the town: as she held on to my
hand. kind of confidentially said 10
me. IF you keep a-going along the
same route, why, wouldn't be sur
prised to see you the fellow I'd like
You TO be-"
But the bunch Of loungers-around
said all sorts OF things TO me, bu,
what they said didn't bother me.
They said vas a gutter and the
like; tight wad like Uncle Ike,
and at nights as home they reeled
they'd say I'd hold dollar till the
eagle squealed.
So a tight-wad they dubbed me
and as a tight-wad they snubbed me
but | kept on a-sawing wood-keDt OF
making good.
When | started an account with
B. & L.. they hunched each other ant
said. Now he thinks he's raising
ell" but as they talked more an(
more. ! Just kept a. going, but little
faster than before.
Days and months and years rolle'
by. and | kept a-plugging and ] KEEP
a.tugging. and If every week to MAKE
a deposit with the B. & L. was raisin:
ell, well. | was raising ell.
It was late Saturday afternoon
lust the time in my town that lover
spoon-that my girl and took jaun
out of the town to the incest littl'
spot, and instead of thinking Of thing
which lovers sometimes do, we decid
ed there and then, with the aid Of tn
b. & l.. TO buy a lot and build bung
allow for two.
II amt been so very long since
cut the bunch-not so very long sine
| got the hunch-but a lot OF thing
can happen in so snort a time tha
really one ould never divine.
Why. since then, some of the buncl
are in the pen; some wno used u
LAUGH and goad are now hoboes ol
he road: some who had promisin
gifts are ordinary blanket stiffs, AM
some who drank till they were sot
are now housed in holes six by tw
in cemetery lots.
Yes, 50 many things can happen on
would never divine--so many thing
in so short a time-why, I'm the man
ager Of a store-yes, the manager an
something more; I'm the owner OF tn
. store.
: Yes, by the aid Of the B. G. L., Nv
gone right on raising ell, and Nv
built the bungalow for two, but look
as if should have built it for a few
We've got the incest kind OF fathe
and mother-in-laws, and they ar
tickled TO death at being grandpa
and grandmas; and the little tots ar
the cutest thinks you ever saw. One
boy and the other a girl, and the
are all our world-one LOOKS IKE m
RN.-