Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-09
Little Bobbie' $
Pa
BY WILLIAM r. KIRK.

w TGFE, sed Pa to Ma last evening.
wv we are going to a real old
fashuned dance, you & me &
little Bobbie. Eddie Crowley invitad
me. 1t is at Tenany Lake, & it viii
talk us back to the sweet days of
childhood That is why I always like
20 go 10 a old fashuned dance, sed
Pa No frills, no social obligashuns,
no form. Just plain fun, sed Pa. Nat
Ural peepul acting natural. & fergit-
ting for the fleeing hours of the
dance the cares & sorrows of their
" orkaday lives, sed Pa.
You seem to be vary enthusiastic
a bout this country dance. sed Ma.
WHARF was you & Mister Crowley
Wen you made this appointment for
to-nite? You are the gratest hand,
sed Ma. for meeting a friend al 4 in
the afternoon & having an evening
arranged for without con -sulting yure
wife. You mite at leest have Toned
me, Ma sed Besides, I haven't
thing to ware up here. I left all my
good clothes in the city.
Very Innocent.
Bless yure hart, sed Pa, this isent
going to be a dress up affare. l am
going In my blue suite that / use to
go fishing in, Pa sed, & my blue fan
mel shirt. I amt eeven going to
shave, Pa sed. I am going up to that
dance & be one of Natures noabel-
men, like the rest of them honest
farmers. Ware the frock you have
on, sed Pa, & let BObbie go the way
he is.
Ma dident like the idee of going to
the country dance vary much, bee
Klaus moast of the plans that Pa
maiks on short motifs always turns out
wrong, but wen she seen that Pa was
bound to go e bound to go unshaved
she sed Vary well So we went
On the way to the dance Pa was
telling US how he liked to be one of
the sturdy men that lives away from
cities. I guess l was always intended
to be ruff, plain man, sed Pa. Sum
how life in the big cities newer
changed me much.
Ma dident say anything. She e.
has herd Pa talk so often about bee
rng a ruff, plain man that we are
used to it. Pa isent ruff like the
men that does hard & dangerous
work at all The only way he is ruff
is wen he has on a blue flannel shirt
like the other men that is used to
them, & Pas blue flannel shirt al
ways itches him.
A Good Joke.
We had a good joke on Pa wen we
got to the dance. Ma & me thot from
the way Pa had been talking that
the dance was going to be in a barn
sumware, but insted il was in a nice
hall called Fred Gales Pavilyun.
Thare was a swell band & a lot of
nice looking peepul. Mister Crowley
met us thare & he was all dressed
up fine & the CURL he had with him
was dressed fine too. Ma dident care,
beekaus the dress she had on was
nice like all her dresses is, & was
dolled up too, but l saw Mister
Crowley look at Pas fishing clothes
q blue flannel shirt. He dident say
anything tho. Thare was only two
or three ruff looking men thare G.
wen Pa got to talking to them he
found out that thay was liverymen
witch had drove peepul to the dance.
Thay only had two square dances
all the eevning a wen Pa got in one
of the sets l herd sum ladies say:
The nerve Of that Jasper butting
into a nice crowd. Wen thay was
going around grand rite & left the
other ladies in Pas set wuddent give
him thare rite hands or thare left
hand eether. Pa had a miserabul time
but the worst calm wen we sat down
to the big supper at midnite & a man
calm oaver and toad Pa that thare
was separate labels for the help.
Ma calls Pa her Natures noabelnnan
now.