The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-04
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LITTLE Boobies PA

~ HARE was a awful funny. CUP
pei calm 10 visit Pa s. Nj
last mite. Thare naim wa
Mister Missus Blume.
think thare naim shud have beer
Gloom. Thay was both of them rs
sad as if the wurld was cumming to
an end.
knew that Pa didn't like them
bekaus he is awful jolly moast a
the time. but Ma sed that thay was
old friends OF the family SO thay wud
have 10 be entertained.
wud be glad 10 entertain them,
Pa said to Ma out in the, kitchen. but
they look so sad that sSraoant know
what 10 do FOR their pleSar. unless
spank ht,el Robbie 4 maik him cry.
l have newer did that yet. sed Pa,
and hate 10 start in now.
Oh. l guess thay aint so bad as all
that, sed Ma. Jest go out now 4
entertain them till cum.
So Pa < ME went cut into the living
room vile Ma was Citing sum late
supper for the cumpany.
l
that Matty won another gain yester-
day. He is doing pritty well for 4
poor old cripple that is all in, isent
he: sed Pa.
l do not pay much attention 10 the
petty triumfs of a baseball PLAYER.
sed Mister Blume He may be a idol
among the unthinking. but was Gaze
sar a ball player? No. he was a
crate general.
Oh, | see. sed Pa. YOU want to talk
about generals Well, sir. | think
that NapOlyun was about the niftiest
general that ever told his men TO go
4 git drilled by bullets. He was a
far sited man. sed Pa Wen his
starving. frozen Grand Armee was
laundering hack from Moscow he cud
look far enuff ahed To git out of il
hisself, so he took six of the best
horses 4 the best carriage & took
bee line for Paris, leeving his poor
soljers to git hoam the best way thay
cud
oh. yes. he was a inhuman man.
sed Mister Blume. He waded TO his
triumfs thru sea of blood. of blood.
| blood. blood. Then Mister & Missus
Blume looked akful blue & sad.
General Thomas was a crate gener-
al, too sed Pa. They called him the
Rock of Chickymauga. IL il had not
been for him the army of the Po-
| tomac wud never have got to the sea
with Sherman, sed Pa. | ought to
know, Pa sed. l was one of the first
osifers to reach the sea. / got there
| aheod of Sherman, Pa sed. | was out
taking a swim in the surf wen he
got thare.
| Mister Blume looked at pa kind of
hard for a minnit. but Pa dident turn
red. l turned kind of red for him. but
| Mister Blume wasent looking at me,
so he dident know that Pa was lying.
Well. sed Mister Blume, you may
have been in that awful war, but
| wether you were or not, thar were
RELY CRATE men in those days & the
peepul RELY loved them. Now we
have no RELY CRATE men. Jest wen
! we beegin to think one of them is
crate. up Gums inquiry & sumbody
produces a lot of cancelled checks, G.
the crate mans naim is mud The
crate man are all moldering tn thare
graves, sed Mr. Blume.
& the CRATE wimen. too, sed Mis-
sus Blume. oh. dear me. what is this
wurld cumming too.
Oh, l think you must be a crate
moman, toad Missus Biume. Then
she RELY smiled & called me a deer
littel man. II made me think of q
littel verse l herd on the stage:
The wise man is wise in his wis
dom,
The fool thinks he's wise in his
folly;
But the high and the low, warever
you go
Are all easy marks for a Jolly.
| WILLIAM F. KIRK.