Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-01
Little Bobbie S
Pa
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.

n TY cuzzin Alice is at our house 10
vi stay a week & she is one Of
the prettiest gurls that / ever
saw. She has got a beau, too, &
he calm to see her last mite. I doant
see how a CURL so pritty cud have
doant think Alice knows vary much
| eether, that is the way with lots of
gurls, wen thay are vary prltty thay
doant know much, & wen thay know
| much they have faces like penny
masks.
| The naim Of Alices beau is Abner.
| / doant know why any father and
mother ever Mains thare boy Abner.
He had on nice clothes wen he called
last mite, but he had vaseine in his
| hair to maik it stay combed SO 1t
curled on his forehead, & he woar a
| button in his coat & it sed on the
| button Drink What Adam Drank. I
| think anybody that wares a button
| that says Sumthing on it is so stupid
that thay cant say anything them
self
Pa looked at the button wich sed
Drink What Adam Drank, & sed to
Abner, What is the idee?
! Do you not comprehend, sed Abner.
Adam drank water pure, sparkling
water. I, too, drink pure sparkling
water, sed Abner VIII you join our
little band & drink pure, sparkling
water, he sed to Pa.
1 will not drink it exclusive. sed
! Pa, because 1 like pure, sparkling
burgundy too e burbon, etc. I do not
| drink anything like that TO excesA
sed Pa, but 1 like snifter now &
| then, so | can not promise to drink
what Adam drank, hitho I Nud like 20
! be one OF your jolly crowd. What II
4 pure water was all Adam drank? sed
/ Pa. Dident he get the cato lust the
saim?
On, but that was not his fault. sed
| Abner. Jest then cousin Alice calm
| in & Abner went & sat neer her. Ma
& Pa only stayed In the parlor a littel
while & then they went out to a card
party but I stayed rite thare on the
! job, I wanted to maik Abner nervls.
/ I was setting out in the other room
/ & | pretended I was reading Bare
/ footed Ben, the Boy That Bit a r. r.
| but all the time l was Citing ear
/ full of Abner's talk.
[ lux poetry, he sed to Alice. Do
! you luv poetry?
! Yes, sed Alice, luz poetry. Will
| you feeSlt6 sum poetry 10 Lle, Sic
sed to Abner. Then Abner reesited
| but he dident know enuff to reesite
sumthlng about luv, he reeslted.
! You may talk of gin and beer
! Wen you're safely quartere1 here
| Or off for penny fites to Aldershot
it.
But wen it Gums 20 slaughter
| You will do your work on water
And you'll lick the blooming boots
of him that's got it.
Oh, sed Alice, l doant like TO hear
I about slaughter Please reesite sum
thing romantic, sumthing tender.
Would you like to hear sumthins
that 1 rote myself? sed Abner.
Oh, yes, sed Alice, pleese reesite
sumthing of yure own. So Abner
reesited
My naim is Abner & I luv a maid
Naim Alice, sweet & wonderfully
clever;
| To leeve this maid & go am afraid
& fain wud be by her side forever
If any other fellow should be grab
I sware that that wud be the end of
Abner.
7 am afrade I cud newer marry
You. sed Alice. That isent nice
poetry at all, it sounds like a school
boys lines. Then they scrapped &
Abner went hoam. Wen Pa calm
hoam I toald him that Alice had sent
Abner hoam & Pa sed Well, any man
that drinks what Adam drank is
| likely to get what Adam got