Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05
Little Bobbie S
Pa
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK.

~ ROFEssOR zINGzOW is cum
ming up to the house tonite. sed
Ma His wife & Is old trends.
d I met them while was shopping
the other day. l toad him that !
knew you wud be pleased 10 meet
him, beskaus you was always glad to
meet celebrities.
I wish you haddsnt toeld him that,
sed Pa I am not one Of those nuts
that 10 always anxshus TO meet sum
body Jest beekaus that sumbody hap
pens to be Janus. I always like TO
meet regular fellows, Pa sed, but
wether they are Janus or not msiks no
dfferens to me. l suppoas he Is sum
old poutsr pigeon with his chest out
& q distant manner about him. Who
10 he, g. what is he professor Of?
He IL q student OF the stars, sed
Me- / think 1t is one of the grandest
Think OF how luvly It must be to be
abel to look up for hours at a time e.
think about the vast-ness OF the uni
verse, g. he isen't a bit chesty eether,
sed Ma He is deer, good old man.
Jest then Prof. Zingzow & his wife
calm to call. She was a thin littel
woman a looked scared, He was a
big fat man with a loud voice & he
held his chin way up in the air. l
thought at FIRST II was beekaus he
was swelled up, but afterward he
toad Pa that the reason his neck was
crooked back heekaus he got that way
looking at the stars all the time.
/ shud think you wud be afrade of
Citing ran oaver by a East Point car.
sed Pa.
! newer go down town excep in
the daytime, sed the professor. e. then
thare are no stars TO watch, so
can see ware I am going But at
mite, espeshully wen 1t lie cleer mite,
] stay at my hoam in Hapeville. |
have a room fitted up in the attic
with a big telescope in it, & | can see
the hevings vary plain. Thare l stay
for hours. he sed, noting the glory OF
the varus eonstellsshuns. suppose
you notised that the big dipper was
upside down last mite. he sed to Pa
No, sed Pa, / was watching the
sidewalk all the way hoam, as II
wass full Of Ice. / did notice that
was upside down myself twice, Pa
sed, wen I slipped & fell, so | had no
time to look at the stars.
But perhaps you had time to no
tice the relative posishuns of Ursa Ma
jor e. Ursa Minor, sed the professor
That of itself was vary startling q
interesting phenom- eny, portendins
sum CRATE event within the year tC
cum.
No, sed Pa. ] diden't motifs anything
about the Ursas eether. In fack, sec
Pa, | am afrade that | was newer
beefoar & am not now much OF q
skolar. Wen I was at skool | always
picked out the eesest words to spell
& the eeslest problems to Tern & pass
ed the others up wen the teacher wud
let me.
He who does not study the stars Is
a dullard, sed Prof. Zingzow. The
stars con-tain many strange e. butt
full lessons for him who is pashun'
snuff 10 Tset them & reed them care
fully. ] wud not trade all the wis
dom l have gleened from the stars
for a CRATE deel, he sed.
Can You lern by rubbering at the
stars. Pa asked him. how to get beet
or eggs littel cheeper, or how tc
git raise in yure salary?
II is not such erthly things that
man lerns from gazing at the hevings
sed Prof. Zingzow. He lerns OF i'm
mortality, Of the mistick beyond
Well, sed Pa, have two mouths 10
feed & she mistick present keeps me
hustling.