The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1914-11-11

"fY ment to poiss her
auburn h a Ere d
head sidewisa. and
k~ to glance s.upE at
me with artless archness from that
angle, Il lose, that's ALL"
There was nothing elucidatory about
that cryptic phrase. So 1 inquired
again.
| Lose what?" asked her.
oh, nuthin' to get the gurgly goiter
about" replied Mousie Mildred, jah
bing at the refractory cuticle with the
orange stick. Il drop a little bet that
l make with myself about you when
you limp in, that's all: but seein' that
1t 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,
Put what was the nature of the
bet?' e.
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 dignified than
they look.
IF tried to tell yuh about the bet
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 vollcy oyei
the remains
reassured her as to that, and again
urE'd 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
its this way, seein' that you're pin
min Lie to the stick and nickin' me fol
what's inside my think-dish.
When you come in. q while ago
and lamped around the tables, and
piped me takin' a peak at you, and
Il then come browsin' over to my table
here, made one O. them 36.cent mind
bets with myself that you was one @
them oh-you-babesky-doll kind, that'd
hardly pass your mitts over to- be
made human lookiI' Eesore -
theater, Aspasi
and then get busy gGessh
liked the way they dish up spaghet
at Dufanti's, or would prefer to too
out to Foodmanston Inn in a chug
chaise. and poke provender into m.
map al freshco, with the brides twit
term tweet-tweetie in the trees, an,
, all nature smilin' like a front-row gel
on the end Of the line slantin' a Pitts
burgh steel magnet in box A.
That's the way have you tucke
, away in the back Of my bean whe
you squat in front Of my bench, an
}. that's the bet ] made. " amt ma
over my tellin' yuh, are yuh? You as
. me. and had to unreel It."
Again l reassured her, and she prt
: coded:
. ''Yuh can't always tell about a 70
, i mean a gent-that's there wit
q that town-tease, hamlet-hoiden, oil
a h-larks look about him when b
Z first breezes into mitt-maison an
}. does the hurry pipe aroun the table
to sort over the lockers.
!. You amt the first gamble I los
a with myself tryin' to pick 'em right @
the blow-in, nor the twentieth, whe
a II comes to that.
A I'm just as often Little Lucy I'll
" Loser when | try to pull that read 'er
e quick numbah as any o the rest o. tt
a claw-polishin' dolls scattered arou
these works.
n 1--WE all get in German just as ofte
a as we dope 'em right. AS / was sayi1
II handicapped you for one o the
p. stout-just stout enough-cut-u
a that'd be purlin' the old numbah nil
bunk into my pin.ie-winkie listene
n. long before you lifted your paws o
"a of the soakin' pan. Says ! to myse
II This keg-I mean gent-will be dan
lin one o them cochincal-red-ink fee
"a at the Cafe de Noah's Ark at me befo
+ I have time to find out whether
bites his nails.
n. I'm Jerry to 1t now that "
,e wouldn't kite a claw-trimmin' doll
N a wop or any other kind CT tahb'-dc
for the hull lower half O. the isla
10 on account O. bein' 'fraid o. what mig
come off later when the family W
r. hepped to it."
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