Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-12-02

NE4k i. pduSluS lOi d SluO'
tf.5 t 1pent to poise her
IT, " auburn h air e
! eae - J head sidewise, and
+ S-~- to glance up, at
me. with artless archness from that
angle, 81 lose, that's 1all":a !}isF 7.
lThereswas1nothing elucidatory about
that cryptic phrase. So inquired
again. sstic s&w lfa 9.iiF iss5Siiiit31
Lose what?" I askedsher. d 81 80
ooh, nuthin' to- get the gurgly goiter
about" ;. replied Mousie Mildred. jab-
:bing at the refractory cuticle with the
orange stick. 81 drop a little bet that
] make with myself about you. when
you limp in, that's all; but SEEM that
it was on'y one o them mind bets,
don't have to ease any hard-gouged
'kale to the handbook, and so it's all
right; there's no harm did, : .
'But what was the nature Of the
ibet?ns eiifgE9s ~ s1sf'' sa' 1fa -
Il hate to tell yuh." she replied.
going after an imaginary hang-nail
with. the cuticle scissors, because
you're one O. them zigs-I mean gents
that's hull lot more dignifed than
they look. Z! 4...,l
IF ! tried to tell yuh about the bet
4 tried to put over with myself you
might get sore as {stockyards
sweeper and start in to raze the plant
to the groun' and fire a volley over
the remains. ~,
i reassured her as to that, and again
urged her to unfold the character of
her wager with herself.
Well" said she, bestowing another
dazzling upward glance upon me out
of the corner of her wood-violet eyes.
it's this way, seein' that you're pin
min, me to the sticksand nickin' me for
what's inside my think-dish. u :l3
When you come i'll, a while ago,
and 5lamped around the tables, and
piped me takini' "a peak, at you. and
then come browsin' over. to- my table
here, made one O. them 367cent mind
bets with myself that you was one 5o,
them oh-you.ba besky-doll kind, that'd
hardly pass your mitts over to be
made human tlookin' before you'd be-
gin to- slip me that DO you Ike the
theater, .Aspasia 2 line o. Castflian con.
and then get busy guessin' whether 7
liked the way they dish up Bpaghet'
at Dufanti's, OF, wouldsi prefer to tool
out to Foodmanston linn in a chug-
.chaise, and poke ;provender into, my
map al freshco, with the brides twit-
term tweet-tweetie in the trees, and
all nature smilin' like front-row gell
on the end of the line slantin' a Pitts
burgh steel magnet in box A.
That's the way have you tucked
away in the back of my bean when
you squat in front, of my bench, and
that's the bet I made. Y amt mad
over my tellin' yuh, are yuh? You asst
me, and I had to unreel it"
Again I reassured her, and she pro-
ceded:
"Yuh can't always tell about zob
Il mean a gent-that's there with
that town-tease, hamlet-hoiden, OH
such-larks look about him when he
first breezes into mitt-maison and
does the hurry pipe aroun' the tables
to sort over the lockers.
"You amt the first gamble lose
with myself tryin' to pick 'em right on
the BLOWN, nor the twentieth, when
it comes to that. i,sl
I'm just as often Little Lucy the
Loser when try to pull that read-'em-
quisk numbah as any O. the rest O the
clais -polishin' dolls scattered aroun'
thefe works.
1--WE all get in German just as often
as we dope 'em right. AS was sayin',
/ handicapped you for one O. them
stout-just stout enough---cut-ups
that'd be purlin' the old numbah nine
bunk into my pinkie-Winkie listeners
long before you lifted your paws out
of the soakin' pan. Says l to myself,
This keg-I mean gent--will be dang
lin one O. them cochineal-red-ink feeds
at the Cafe de Noah's Ark at me before
I have time to find out whether he
bites his nails. s-..5ss.s.s.
"I'm Jerry to it now that you
wouldn't kite a claw-trimmin' doll to
a wop or any other kind Of tahb -dote
for the hull lower half O. the island
on account O. bein' 'fraid O what might
come off later when. the family was
hepped to it."