Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-10-14

AS--5 W ElduCe up ut
me with artless archness from that
angle. Il lose. that's ALL"
There WAS nothing elucidatory about
that cryptic phrase. So inquired
again.
Lose WHAT asked her.
oh. nuthin' to get the gurgly goiter
about" replied Mousie Mildred. lab
bing ut the refractory cuticle with tho
orange stick. II drop little bet that
make with myself about you when
YOU limp In, that's all; but seem that
II was ony 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"
But what was the nature OF the
bet?"
/ 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
III | 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 volley over
the remains"
treasured her "a 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.
its this way. seem that you're pin
MIN me to the stick and nickin' me for
what's inside my think-dish.
When you come in. while ago.
and lamped around the tables. and
| piped me takin' peak Mt you, and
then come browsin' over to my table
here. | made one o. them 36-cent mind
bets with myself that you was one o.
them oh-you- babesky-doll kind. that'd
hardly pass your mitts over to be
made human lookin' before you'd be-
gin to slip me that DO you like the
theater, Aspasia? line o Castilian con-
and then get busy guessln' whether /
liked the way they dish up spaghet'
/ at Dufantfs, or would / prefer to tool
out to Foodmanston Inn in 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 a frontrow CELL
on the end Of the line slantIn' Pitts.
5urgh 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
hats the bet / made. Y amt mad
over my tellin' yuh. are yuh? You asst
ne, and I had to unreel It,"
Again / treasured her. and she pro-
ceded
"Yuh can't always tell about a Fob
i mean gent-thats there with
hat town-tease. hamlethoiden, OH
5uch-larks look about him when he
FIRST breezes into a mitt-maison and
does the hurry pipe aroun' the tables
10 sort over the lockers
You amt the first gamble lose
with myself tryin' TO pick 'em right on
the BLOWN, nor the twentieth. when
1t comes TO that.
Tn Just as often Little Lucy the
Loser when try to pull that read 'em-
quick numbah as any o. the rest o. the
claw-poIishin' dolls scattered aroun'
these works
I'VE all get in German just as often
as we dope EN- right AS I was sayin',
handicapped you for one o. them
stout-just stout enough-cutups
thatd be purlin' the old numbah nine
bunk into my pinkie-winkle listeners
long before you lifted your paws out
Of the soakin' pan. Says 7 20 myself
This keg-I mean gent-will be dang.
fin one o them cochlneal-red.ink feeds
az the Cafe de Noah's Ark at me before
/ have time 20 find out whether no
bites hts nails
I'm Jerry TO II now that you
wouldn't kite n claw-trimmin' doll TO
a wop or any other kind Of a tahb' dote
for the hull lower half o the island
on account o. bein' 'frald o. what might
come Off later when the family was
hepped TO IT,"