El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-23
Little Bobbie and His Pa
They Have a Session With a Young
Lawyer Graduate and Pa
Gets Sort of Sore.
William +. kirk

HARE was a young man up to
see Pa & Ma last mite, his naim
l. is Blackstone Smith. He jest
left college & he is going to be a
LAWYER. he doant know in witch town
until he hears from all the towns that
is after him & then he will pick out
the town he likes best.
He was awful stuck up, he was the
stuckest I'D boy I ever seem He IS
20 veers oaId & he thinks he is a man,
he called me a litteI shaver & sed Poor
bov. after he has climbed the tree OF
nollege at sum college he will know
the difficulties witch us men has to
face.
Yes. dare say. sed Pa. this Ginning
4 tree of noIlege at college IS sum
sport, Blackstone.
What a pritty naim, Blackstone sed
Ma.
Nv parents knew I was going 10
be a lawyer, he sed. so they gaiy me
the naiun of the gratest lawyer that
e1,IyeT lived It is a fitting naim for
me. doant you think so? So.
ANY first naim seems to fit smith
prittv good, sed Pa Wen are you
goinr 10 begin laying down the law
10 the wurId? Maybe my firm can
swing sum bizness yure way, "a SEQ
if you locate here intoWn- My 1lrh
is always in trubbeL They doant lis
snail be glad to straiten them osr
after / start M office, sed Black
stone Smith. That is, shall endeaNor
to adjust, adjudicate, transact, per
form & otherwise accomplish Sucn
legal acts & deeds as you may then
or at any future time bring, fetch or
cause to be brung or fetched to my OF
flee OF course shall expect suta-
bel honorarium, he sed.
A What2 Sed Pa
A sutabel honarariun, sed Black
stone Smith A Zee that is common
surate with my skill & my legal lore.
Oh, that will be all rite, sed Pa, L
! will see that the firm pays you about
what you are worth That wuddent
brake my firm, Sed Pa
! 1 am riteing a text book in my lee
! shur moments sed Mister Smith, about
| a masters liability for acks Of his SER
/ want. 1t is going to be vary compre-
| hensiVe work he Sed, dwelling fully
/ on all personal injury cases that may
I be brought in any city, village, town
/ or hamlet, burg, postoffice, railroad
! stashun, jumping off place or whistlinS
/ post in any state or territory in the
| Union.
/ to see a yung man be ambishus. Arc
| you going to talk any divoarce cases
Not until I have large staff of
| law clerks, Sed Blackstone Smith
J Then I shall transact, perform, render
/ & otherwise do any & all such ser
| vices as are conneckted or remotely
| connected with any ackshun for a di-
Yoarce or other form OF the annulment,
smashing & rendering void Of the mar
! rage state.
/ I have sum vary fine burbon here,
! sed Pa. Wud you like Httel dram.
| sill, boot, snort, snifter, shot, or sip
1 of sed burbon as afOresed, situated on
| the northeast corner of the south west
| quarter of the sideboard contiguous
! hereto2 sed Pa
newer drink, sed Blackstone Smith.
I feel that I owe il TO my future clients
] to stay sober
/ I am afrade that yure future clients
] will be a lot sOberer men than you are
) sed Pa You dOant want any honor
/ arium, Pa sed, what you want is a
I sanitarium-
Then Blackstone Smith got kind Of
( cool & pritty soon he went hOam.
Four cars s5.sn, dcors and. -uouIdings
I hOught for SDOL cash at bargain DriCas