El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-23
Little BObbie and His Pa
PA Doesn't Go to the banquet Of the
Bowling Club, Because Ma
said He Shouldn't.
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" HIS morning Pa had his break
fast. early, at the same time 4
= always have my breakfast to go
to school The reason Pa had his
breakfast so erIy was becaus he didn't
&c to the banquet last mite which was
gave by the Bowlin Club Of which
Pa Is member. He didn't 90 bee
Klaus he -sed he was going and Ma
said he wasent. 1 cUd see that Pa
was kinda cross while he was reeding
his morning paper, beekaus Pa never
likes to get up erly-
Pa 1 SCI to him, 1 wish YOU would
read me sum of the spOarting news
before / go to school l don't get a
Chancst to see any papers at school d
YOU always take the paper away with
you when you go to the offs Reed
me something about Matte and Mar
guard, / Sed 10 Pa * see II there -
anything about Clark Griffith & his
Washington club. beekaus I want TO
see them win the pennant in the
Please don't boather me BObbie, sed
Pa I am reading the market news
and I don't want to be disturbed by
any fool talk about baseball i sup
pose. Pa sed. that all your mother &
me viii hear all summer is baseball,
baseball I newer could see anything
to that gain Pa sed-
You must have changed a hole lot
since last season Ma sed, wen the
Jiants was at home YOU hardly ever
got home in time for anything but a
cOaId dinner o. I used to go once in
a while, Pa sed, but I have made Up
my mind that 7 am thru bOthering
about the Crate Nachinal CAIN I see
that there is danger Of mOar trubbel
in the Balcans sed Ma, & that another
Of them crazy eastern Princes has ran
off with a SOil that used 10 play in
burleSque in the United States
Doesn't il say anything thare about
hove fast Walter JOnsOn IS pitching
this seesOn. ] asked PAP
I tOald YOU OnSt not to bother me
Pa sed. now YOU hurry uD & git yure
breakfast finished and go 10 skule- II
you asst me another question about
baseball I am going to use the pam
o. my hand for bat Pa sed. and
pretend that you are baseball yur-
self
finished my breakfast & on the
way to the skule hOus bought morn
ing paper I thOt that If I got to
skule erly / cud git the principle 70
reed me something about how the
players was Citing along at the be-
ginning of the season
The principle was thare wen I got
thare & gaiv him the paper and asst
him If he would pIees reed me some
news or the spOartIng page What
do you want me to reed the spOart-
Ing page for the principle asst me.
/ want TO know If Matties wing is
alright. I tOald him. 1Iatties What2
sed the principle His wing. I sed,
his whip. 1 meen his arm I am sure
I am not Interested IN the person
YOU Speek of. Sed the principle. and
beeSides I think it would look a lot
better for fiddle boy like you to
come TO skule with his skule books
under his arm than TO walk in heer
ard show me vulgar spOartins
page
Thare was never a graft man. the
principle sed. that started erly in
life reading spOarting pages, Do you
suppOas, he sed to me. that Abraham
Lincoln would walk II miles to buy
a newspaper with spOarting paig
IN 1T No. he sed. when he walked
y miles for sumthing to read. il was
always a law book or the work OF
some crate master that ne brought
home with him.
I am surprised and disappointed
in you, BObbie, ne sed, give me that
paper and go to your seat Study
yure 1Ografy lesson he Sed. so YOU
wont tell aggen today the way you
did yesterday that Brazil was the
capitol Of Nue. jerry.
So / went to my sect and 7 studied
my JoSrafy until the rest OF the skOl-
lers cain. but I nOtise6 that vile I
was studying the principle was all
the time reeding the paper had brot
him & was almost sure that it was
the SpOarting paig. he was looking at
All OF the kids made mistakes in
their lessons all the forenoon. I CESS
thay was all thinking about baseball
same as me beekaus wen the teacher
asked Reddy Blake who was the graft
est living Amarikan outside Of Ruse-
hcAL 4Nc44E SGQ johnnie .l4cNTraWs ana
wen the teecher asked the boy next to
him who was the graitest living Amer
igan he sed Frank Chance
The teecher dident know what to
think & and the principal got auful
meen and gave all Of US a SkOalding
He sed he dident have any little boys,
but II he did have he hOaped thay
would not ErOw up to be silly & 90
crazy OVer baseball
After skule was oaver some OF US
kids was going hOam & we heaSd
two men Quarling about baseball. We
cud heer them block
Frank Chance is going to show I'D
AcGraW in New York this year, sed
one of the men
You are crazy. plum crazy. sed the
other man A1cGraw is going to have
another pennant-Winning TEEN & the
YANKEES viii be lUckey If they finish
in the 1st divishun
I dOant care TO talk to a Iunytick.
sed the LIST man. Neither do I sed
the other man. Good nitel
Wen we got ClOst to the men we
seen who they was
One Of the men was. the principle
D. our skule.
The other man was Pa