Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1912-08-30
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! Papa" began Bobby, after dinner
does it cost very much to build
house?"
! His father laid down the newspaper
he was reading and considered the
question. 49,.
at 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?"
1--WE 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 al
WAYS puts prices up awful high. Gee,
I visit it wouldn't rain such a lot.
We don't hardly get outdoors any"
Its 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 II
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, lessn he was a fish. 1t was
baseball started me thinking about
houses an things like that"
Il suppose your idea was to build
a grandstand to protect the baseball
fans. Is that it?" asked the father.
"N-not exactly" Bobby acinowl-
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 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 Mary's street. Gee, that's going
some, the way he talks"
81 don't like that sort Of boy, my
self"
ooh, we'll, he amt so bad" Bobby
said, hastily. HE don't say EN-, you
know. He just knows 'em 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. I don't
blame him, do you?'
mo, I should think not. They have
no business to touch the ball"
well, ne. made me crazy talking
about houses. 1t was him started me
and Jimmy talking and he said houses
often cost more'n thousand dollars.
He said You divide up thousand dol
lars into winders and doors and you'd
find door cost heap. He said there
was about twenty winders in this
house. Is there?'
81 don't think 1 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 81. I
amt ever heard anything so foolish,
have your"
ut was perhaps 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. A cellar window, for
instance"
81 thought maybe we might go over
that way this evening IL it stopped
raining" Bobby said hopefully. "You
amt had a lot of walking today, have
you?"
Not great deal"
BILLY says burglars always get in
through cellar winders. Do they?"
mot any oftener than through other
windows"
"Once would be often for me-" Bob
by sighed. Balls go through winders
awful often, think"
$50 ball went through one, did 1t?
I hope it wasn't where the boy would
get himself into serious trouble"
mo, sir That's the nice part about
It," Bobby said cheerfully. ut was
our window. 1t went through, just as
easy, this morning
"Our window? Did the boy feel sor-
ry? I suppose he offered to pay?"
"T'm-well, I'm offering now" Bobby,
stammered. ut was me."-Chicago