El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-25
Little BObbie and His Pa
Pa starts to Writing short Stories
but Fails to Convince Ma
Of His Genius.
William T. kfrk-
by YIlIiam i. Kir1-

x TOU are Citing lazy deer, sed Ma
to Pa last mite. Why dOant you
- work all day, the way other men
have to- Heer III is mite & you haven't
done q thing in the way OF hard work
since YOU got up You spent all the
forenoon visiting with a crowd or the
boys OaVcr at the corner, q In the az
rernOOu you went to the ball gain d
calm home tired & hOarse from yelling
the players * the umpire Il won
der If q man ever thinks what a IOOl
he is to waste his voice bawllng at a
lot of players who dOant know he IS
In The stand adm dOaut care Why doanr
you sit bizzy d work the way you can
WOrk2 Ma sed-
Maybe 1 work a good deal moar
than you think I do, sed Pa
No you dOant, sed Ma Ware are
all those wunderfuI short stories that
you were going TO ritc2 You toad me
Oaver month ago that you were
gcinS TO rite short stories Ware are
thay2
have finished several of them. sed
Pa. & sent them out oldenr want to
say anything to you until got cneck
from the mdgazeen- luF you best.
deer. sed Pa. wen you are in one OF
yure melting moods. K thare is nothing
in the WUrld that puts you in one Of
them moods quicker than a check But
as long as you have brought up the
subjeck. sed Pa. I VIII show you the
latest story that I have. been working
on 1t is about finished up
His story.
Then Pa went & got sum sheets OF
paper & sed Now, usSen to me The
nalm OF this story IS The Haven & it
tells about man who gamDled & was
fast every other way. He goes to d
Ittel country town to rest & fish for
q week, & thare he meets a parsons
daughter naimed Elaine Graham She
falls in love with him & he falls in
love with her The man Wud marry
her, Cany he has a wife in the city 4
his wife was kind Of strict about such
things
CORTLAND Mannlnsford was in a new
world & he knew IT. The glare Of the
clty's night life, the suppressed passion
OF the Underworld the greed Of the
wolf packs he had loved to fight with
their own fangs-au these things
seemed to Slip from him and leeve the
pure ucabelness Of the reel man re-
veeled as ne stood in the moonlight and
looked down at the parsons daughter.
That IS vary pr1tly- sed Ma lBuf il
his wife knew that he was talking
lhar way eeven to a-parson's daughter.
he wud be eeven mOar abJecly whipped
when he got hOam- How does yure
interesting story flnlsn2
Had to Die.
Well Sed Pa. sumbOdy had TO die to
cleer Up the situashuu. so as I dfdent
know wich one to have die. I died them
all. Pa sed- The wife, grown iellus
calm from the city & cain upon the
pair vile thay were standing under q
old oak tree Jest rs he kissed the par
sons daughter & tOald her he loved
her. a bolt of lightning struck the tree
i e killed ali three OF the poor peepul.
. Then this is the way I finished I'D the
story
The moon cain out aggenn. Riven
by the terrible force of JOves bolt the
old oak tree looked down. wounded vet
plty1ngly, on three principals in loves
tragedy, the tragedy as oald and gray
as the Wurld & yet as yung & pink as
a petal. Long the old tree looked down
on them, the ded gambler. his ded wife
q the ded innocent. They had come into
the haven"
That was sun lightning storm.
WasseEt it, sed Ma