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

W TlFE, sed Pa to Ma last evening,
w We are going to real old
fashuned dance, you & me &
little Bobble. Eddie Crowley invited
me. It IS at Tenany Lake, & IL viii
talk US back to the sweet days of
childhood That is why I alway= IKE
10 60 70 a old fashuned dance. sed
Pa. No frills, no social Obligashuns,
no form. lust 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-nlte2 You are the gratest hand.
SEED Ma. for meeting a friend at in
the afternoon & having an evening
arranged for without consulting yure
Wife. You mite at leest have Toned
me, Ma sed Besides, I haven't a
thing to ware up here. l left all my
good clothes In the city.
Very Innocent.
Bless yure hart sed Pa, this isent
going to he a dress up affare. I am
go fishing in. Pa sed, & my blue fan
mel shirt amt eeven going to
shave, Pa sed. am going up to that
dance & be one of Natures noabeI-
men like the rest of them honest
farmers. Ware the frOck you have
ON, sed Pa, & let Bobbie go the way
he is.
Ma dident like the idee OF going to
the country dance vary much, bee
klaus moast of the plans that Pa
maiks on short motifs always turns out
wrong, but wen she seen that Pa was
bound To go q bound TO 60 unshaved
she sed Vary we'll 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 I was always intended
TO be a ruff plain man. sed Pa Sum
how life i'm the big cities newer
changed me much.
Ma dident say 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 & 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, q Pas blue flannel shirt al
ways itches him.
A Good Joke.
We had a good joke on Pa wen we
got to the dance. Ma e me thot from
the way Pa had been talking that
the dance was going TO be in barn
~umware, but insted il was in nice
han called Fred Gales Pavilyun.
inhare was a swell band & lot of
nice looking peepul Mister Crowley
met us thare x he was all dressed
mp fine & the CURL he had with him
was dressed fine too. Ma dident care,
heekaus the dress she had on was
nice like all her dresses is. & I was
dolled up too. but 7 saw Mister
Crowley look at Pas fishing clothes
a. blue flannel shirt He dident say
anything tho. Thare was only two
Ur three ruff looking men thare, &
Wen Pa got to talking to them he
found out that thay was liverymen
witch had drove peepul to the dance.
Thay only had two square dances
an the eevning & wen Pa got in one
of the sets / herd sum ladies' say:
The nerve Of that Jasper buttlng
into a nice crowd Wen thay was
going around grand rite & 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
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.