The San Francisco call., 1913-10-28
Little Bobbie S
Pa 3
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK

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1 essay on What Consti-toots
Grateness, &c last mite 1 asked
Pa & Ma to hefp me rite 1t.
Thay are crowding the Children
ahed too fast these days. sed Ma. the
idee of asking child to rite essay
with "a subjeck like that
1t may seem like a very deep sub
jeczS to you, sed Pa, but it is mere
cRild's play for me. / win help Bob
bic rite his essay. You go rite ahed
looking at yure fashion magazise,
sed Pa. Bobbie, cum into the elibrary
ware we viii be close to the books &
will rite yure essay with you.
In the first place, 9sed Pa, wen we
got into the library, true grateness
Is what the teecher ment wen she
gave you the subJeck What Consti-
toots Grateness. OF course there are
different kinds of grateness. Mathew
son, for instans. is the greatest pitcher
that ever lived. & yet he will not
live in history as CRATE man. Bryan
Is crate talker, & yet he will never
be remembered as EdncoIn was re-
membered.s Jack Johnsing is a great
prize fiter, but that let's him out.
None of these men mite be seed to be
truly CRATE. Pa told me- Grateness of
the reel sort is the grateness of a
Shakespeer or a Caesar, or, to bee
moar modern, like me-, sed Pa
The surest way to tell reel CRATE
ness or to spot a CRATE man, sed Pa,
is to notice his clothes. He will never
look like tramp on the bench in the
park, Pa sed, but he will newer look
like picture of a man like you see
on cards in the tailor shops All of
them men on the tailor cards, sed Pa,
has high, stiff collars & they ware
leather gloves, rife in the middle of
the summer even
I always thought that was the rite
way to dress, L toald Pa
1t maybe the rite way to dress for
a yung man that likes to dress, sed
Pa, but it amt the rite way to dress
II you are CRATE man. Imagine
Abraham Linkin with one of them
Alpine hats with a bow on the back
or 1t, Pa sed. Or think of Caesar
leeding his Romans aggenst the Gauls
with a high, stiff collar on. Why,
sed Pa, If one of them Gauls shud
nit Caesar on the top of the he'd it
wud cut his throte. No, Bobbie, sed
"a, the truly CRATE men of all time
nave been men witch believed in
having thare clothes comfortable but
not stylish. Thay believed in bee
ing eileen & took a bath whenever
1t was handy, but moar than one
CRATE man has been known to live
in a place ware thare wasent any
rooms with bath. / herd a yung man Q
saying the other day that he wud
die If he dident have his shower
every morning, Pa sed & I wondered
what he wud do if he had to spend
few months out in Arizony ware
| used to ride the rance.
a other way that you can always
tell a RELY CRATE man, sed Pa, is
by his modesty You newer heer a
crate man Dragging about himself.
Look at me. for instens, sed Pa. Did
you evver heer me boosting my own
game. Did you evver heer me claim
ing to be crater than the men with
wich associate daily?
No. Pa, l sed, / newer herd you say
you was CRATE. That is why I newer
knew you was CRATE man till now.
Always be like yure father, Bobbie.
sed Pa, G. sum day you. too. may be
truly CRATE. Then he went into the
other room & I toald Ma that Pa had
helped me rite my essay. He sed that
Caeser & Lincoln G. hisself was the
reely CRATE men, toald Ma.
Indeed, sed Ma. how thoughtful of
yure father to think of his friends,
Abe e. julius.