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

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me. with artless archness from that
angle, 81 lose, that's ali!'.s a@fsS s1.5
4Thereiwas. nothing elucidatory about
that cryptic phrase. So I inquired
again. sstie .giR .f!( 2.:s5Fi.4@.7sitSa
Lose what?" asked her. y aI 7E9
"Oh, nuthin to; get the gurgly goiter
about" !, replied ,Mousie Mildred, jab,
;bings at the refractory cuticle with the
orange stick. q drop q 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, L
don't have to ease any hard-gouged
.kale to the handbook, and so it's all
right; there's no harm did" q s.' g
''But what was the nature Of the
ibet?n eiiiPS5sA{ 20 sLis''5 s.'S.
4 hate to tell yyuuh," !" she replied.
going after an imaginary 2hang.nail
with the cuticle scissors, because
you're one O. them zigs-I mean gents
that's a hull lot more dignided than,
they look. s iE
.'If ! tried to tell yuh about the bet
I tried to put over with myself you
might get sore as a fstockyards
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.
'sWell,'' said she, bestowing another
dazzling upward glance upon me out
of the corner of her wood-violet eyes.
it's this way, seem that you're pin.
min, me to the stick:and nickin' me for
what's inside. my think-dish. a 9
When you come in. a while ago.
and lamped around the tables, and
piped me takini "a peak, at you. and
then come browsin' over to- nay table
here, I made one o them 367cent mind
bets with myself that you was one g,
them oh-you:bab abesky-do doll kind, that'd
hardly pass your mitts over to be
made human lookin' before you'd be
gin to slip me that sDo'Fyou like the
-theater, Aspasia g line O Castilian con,
and then get busy guessfn' whether I
liked the way they dish UP spaghet'
at Dufanti's, OF, wouldsf prefer to tool
out to Foodmanston4sI Inn. 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' 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 1 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 aroln' the tables
to sort over the lockers,
"You amt the first gamble lose
with myself tryin' to pick 'em right on
the blow-in, nor the twentieth, when
it comes to that. ol,,e
"Im just as often Little Lucy the
Lofsr when try to pull that read EN-
.qus;k numbah as any O the rest O the
cl;sw-polishin' dolls scattered aroun
tt ,se works -
1--WE all get in German just as often
as we dope 'em right. AS I was sayin',
/ handicapped you for one O. them
;stout-just stout enough-cut-ups
that'd be purlin' the old nunabah nine
bunk into my ,pinkie-winkie listeners
long before you lifted your paws out
of the soakin' pan. Says 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 bis nails. i-zs
"Pm Jerry to it now that you
wouldn't kite claw-trimmin' doll to
a wop or any other kind Of tahbIdote
for the hull lower half O. the island
on account O bein' 'fraid O what might
come off later when. the family was
hoped to it."
UnweIcome Invitation.
Donald, aged four, had been kept at
,o,oo +inoo 7or fnar. of catch.