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

w YIFE, sed Pa to Ma last evening.
wv we are going to real old
fashuned dance, you & me &
little Bobbie. Eddie Crowley invited
me. II is a Tenany Lake, &, 1t viii
talk us back to the sweet days Of
childhood. That is why l always Ike
TO go TO 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
workaday lives, sed Pa
You seem to be vary enthusiastic
about 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 at in
the afternoon & having an evening
! arranged for without consulting yure
| wife. You mite al leest have Toned
me. Ma sed. Besides, I haven't a
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. I am
going i'm my blue suite that I use to
| so fishing in. Pa sed, & my blue fan
/ mel shirt. I amt eeveu going to
| shave, Pa sed. I am going up to that
! dance & be one of Natures noabel-
| men ike the rest of them honest
| farmers Ware the frock you have
on. sed Pa, 81 let Bobbie go the way
| he is.
Ma dident like the idee Of going to
| the country dance vary much, bee
I 20 . 81 4G0
! maiks on short motifs always turns out
wrong, but wen she seen that Pa was
/ bound to go & 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 / guess / was always intended
/ to he a ruff, plain man, sed Pa. sum
/ how life in the big cities newer
( CHANGED ,ue mach.
Ma dident Soy anything. She & I
has herd Pa talk so often about bee
ing a ruff, plain man that we are
used 20 it. Pa isent ruff like the
men that. does hard e 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 n good Joke on Pa wen we
got 10 the dance. Ma q me thot from
the way Pa had been talking that
the dance was going 20 be in q barn
sumware, but insted II was in a nice
hall called Fred Gales Pavilyun.
/ Thare was a swell band G a lot Of
nice looking peepul. Mister Crowley
met us thare a he was all dressed
+ up fine & the gurl he had with him
/ was dressed fine too. Ma dident care,
( bcekaus the dress she had on was
nice like all her dresses is & ] was
dolled up too, but / saw Mister
I Crowley look at Pas fishing clothes
& blue flannel shirt He dident say
anything tho. Thare was only two
or three ruff looking men thare, &
wen Pa got to talking TO them he
found out that thay was llverymen
witch had drove peepul 70 the dance.
Thay only had two square dances
an the eevning q wen Pa got in one
. of the sets I herd sum ladies say:
The nerve of that jasper butting
into a nice crowd. Wen thay was
going around grand rite g. 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
4 to the big supper at midnite & a man
calm oaver and toald Pa that thare
was separate labels for the help.
Ma calls Pa her Natures noabelman
now.