Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-08

just grinned when comes back with my chin down.
@Dont' says l, when they starts in joshin me. Il m
tryin to make out when it was escaped from Sing
Sing and whether in for stealth sheep or settln
fire to orphan asylum.
@You should have heard her state her opinion of me-
says Bailey, @when was on the tax board
@And the raking over got from her., says Tingley,
Sthe time made her lay curbstones-say.
Take it all in all framed Miss Phoebe up as sort OF
cross between she terror and mad hornet could
account for her quiet absentmnded air. That was
when she was busy workin up grouches and layln
her plans to get There such folks you know,
and you get real wise to EN- until it your
turn for layin out That's when your faith in human
nature is apt to get its hardest bump Maybe that's
what they're here for-sort of pressure tests,
they give steam boilers.
Anyway, I'll admit couldn't have qualified for
optinst club, there for spell; and, while didn't lose
any flesh it, of the things Miss Phoebe had
said about my way of talkn' still gouged At times
wondered it didn't tag me as hopeless lowbrow, after
all, and hadn't better try soundin the final Gs and
chopin out the chummy chatter But the first stab
makes with the book dialogue Sadie begins to look wor
RED wants to know if I'm SICK and suggests applyin
mustard plaster.
WAS leadin' too busy life just them though, to
dwell long my falin's. You see, I'd been
roped in on public Fairgrounds scheme It's propo-
sition didn't know much about first off: but when
sprung how the town kids had lost their only base
ball field got int rested finds too that down at the
grammar school, where they turn out three four hun
bred youngsters every recess, all the space got
to jump around in and play games on IS bare DIRT
pen no bigger than you want for flock of chickens;
while right next door, fenced in by whisky signs,
buildn plot that ben held by Spectator and IS
used for nothing but to bear big crop of beggar tick
weeds
So our enerprisin welfare bunch starts agitation
for the to buy this land and throw it into the
schoolyard we agreein to keep it open all summer.
equip it proper with SWINGS slides, and such, and hire
good game leader to look after things.
We'd collected quite purse too, and I'd sort OF got
things started by putin up few cups and medals for
the boys Jump and for and everybody seemed to
be with us. when against snag. The school
board turns our plans down hard. They wa takin
up these fads the first place. and then the town
couldn't afford such luxures with the tax rate what it
was. All of which sounds reasonable until discovers
that the chairman of the board real estate dealer
who expects gather in fat commission some day by
unloadin' this plot to private party.
"Huh!" says to committee "H that's what S
bockin' the kids from havin playground, then our
first move to give this foxy gent the sudden dump off
the board
But say. did you try shakin' loose peanut poll
tican from his clutch little petty graft? Well it.
some Job. believe me! 1t turns out that one OF his
henchmen was an influential plumber who had cnch
on all the schoolhouse furnace work. another coal
dealer who had the heatin contract and so on. Why
even the school anitor held his ourhundred dollar job
BY ben able to deliver many votes. And the minute
we gets busy with campaign the opposition throws