The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-09-11
Two Valentines
By F. A. Mitchell

round brass buttons on my jacket one
ON each side o. the row 1 use TO put-
ton II I'D with The gentleman
works for took me from seiiin' pa
pers. He used to buy paper or me
every mornin' when he took his tram,
l standin' just outside at the emo o
the street he come down. One day ne
Aaid 10 me: "Yous a bright lookin
bow. How'd you like to be pager
.'Wot's a pager l asked. "Oh, ht-
tie Teller dressed up mighty hne 10
answer the doorbell, run errands ana
all that" | said I'd like that. SO he
tole me to come to his house that
evenin'.
The next day after / went to him
he sent me with Tom Gummage, the
butler. to cit rugged out. Then when
/ got back before put 'em on l was
put into a great big white pathtuo
and told to soak myself for an nour:
did this, and when / come out ana
nut on my uniform and looked In
glass I wouldn't "a knowed myself
looked so fine.
When I went into the kitchen the
cook said was too ilhgant for any
thing. and the housemaid give me
kiss. She was lookin' mighty fine her
self with her black dress and rutdes
on her cap and apron, to beat inc
band. Right of / liked her better
than any one Of the help, and haven't
: had any occasion to change my minc
since. for II l made any mistakes she
always helped me out OF EN-, ana
IN Kive me the money to go and git an
1T ether fist like 1t, and nobody knowed
!" did the breakin'.
IL One thing bothered me lot Gum
" mage and the housemaid, Ellen. hated
~, zach other like poison. Sometimes
y. when Ellen would give me somethln'
ri Gummage would give me sometnin
es better, Just to show his spite, reckon.
he Then Ellen would say, "lf you're goln
en- 10 take presents from that fellow, DICK
MS sy. I won't give you anything more
of Ana sometimes Gummage would say
Oh 1T saw Ellen givin' you kiss Tor TAX
at ~ n letter out to the mail box FOR nel
IN Yesterday. / don't think that mucf
e! nav. I'd rather have a nickel any day
nm. n / was you"
"a ct wouldn't. think Ellens might.
he ane girl, and you don't show goo'
,ac taste In runnin' her down"
Then he'd give a grunt and tina
would be the end Of it And when 10
len would run Tom down I'd say: &c
ll3. len, Toms first rate. He give me i
cents yesterday just for carryin som
hot water upstairs that he was told I
bring himself" And Ellen would max
a face. and that would be the end
what she had to say about Tom.
Well, they was both a-snarlin'
each other when Valentines day com
,rry round. The day before it come Tol
Two showed me one Of the comics-a MAJ
my, dressed In her white and black IN
rye form, only she was awful ugly, ar
etc. -. -.,oa .oroo rnaan noetrv on
ont, - IIe'o Ia =. ,uas oo,n, 20 send Il 70 T
len. told him he needn't waste al
stamp on IT; I'd got some stamps tn
and had been used I'd stick one OF e
raw on the valentine and hand 1t In wh'
j. I took the mail from the postma
- which always did.
That same night Ellen she show
me a comic. too, with pictur or
man struttin round like a turke
fars cock. I asked her If she was goin
light send IL TO ION.
bred THE very thing! sne Salu.
fur looks Just like him. I'll do It."
Ed. told her the same thing I'd e
Tom-that I'd put a used stamp on
and pretend to take 1t from the 20
cent man. But I didn't tell her that
un- going to do the same thing for To
She said that would be first rate WI
-, and she gave me the valentine.
VIC" I'd iust got 80 cents for a tip, ant
went out to store and bought two
neTs the lovenest valentines | could d
: or They was all covered with bleed
: re- hearts and little boys with wings
not a stitch OF clothes on 'em, AM
IS be - n,o.s,,. ,o,,o on ono and Ellie
81 on another and put an old stamp
each of 'em, and the next mornin' WI
the postman come, after leavin' the
\, ~ tiers for the family on the library ia
soor I took the valentines for Tom and
,ss a. len TO each of 'em. pertendin' I'd
now 'em from the postman-
This During the day Tom came TO
IN adj and asked me II knew who sent
his valentine. said I had no
es of ness to tell Then he give me a q
I'd are ter. and that opened me up. 1
dicine him Ellen sent It. Then went to
titute I.r ana told her I'd seen the yalen
Re- $50 80. An Tom,a room She
oduce no -,.oa Tor, ho waa an
Insist o. Joy at gittin' a>valentine from Z
ms no chat he couldn't think Of anything
messy. He broke two plates and one o
small teacups that come from some
terry or another in Europe.
RS Re IL beat anything ever seen the
{ can ference them valentines made bets
cure Tom and Ellen. II wasn't NOR
=, " three days when I caught 'em be
, pd he the drawin' room window curtains
i'm all In for all they was worth.
,,ciallv f,.A onickered right out. Tom