Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-13
Bumpy Folks
By ADA PATTERSON.

This pear makes me think OF the
man in the window at the savings
bank" Katie's sunny temper suffered
a temporary eclipse. She dug the point
of her pairing knife beneath the rudy
skin OF pear and went on with her
peeing as though she had grievance
against the fruit.
1.-THE man at the savings bank" l
asked.
"Yes. The man who writes in your
bank book how much you put in
THE teller?'
~ guess so. He has more bumps
than this here pear"
The pear was, as Katie had said,
bumpy. Besides its smooth-skinned
neighbors it presented sorry ap-
pearance. A toad is not more freely
supplied with knobs in its skin than
was the surface OF the fruit she was
peeling. Yet the swift movements
Of the pearing knife revealed firm,
fine, juicy, white fruit, :.
1T looks like a good pear inside,
| said.
Eyes, that's the way with lots OF
bumpy folks" said Katie, But folks
don't know that at first and they lose
lots of friends by it. If you're bumpy
outside you can't blame folks for
thinking that you're that way clear
through. You paid me by check this
month, instead of cash, and / took
the check to the bank, same as | do
the money. ! made out the slip the
same as l always do and took the
check and the slip to the window. He
made an awful face and he said, Why
don't you endorse the check at the
backr came back with it and he
made face worse than the first one
and he yelled at me. Why don't you
write the number Of your book on the
back Of that check? yelled, too; il
he hadn't yelled at me I wouldn't have
hollered at him. But people does back
to us whatever we does to them.
never knew it to fail. So l hollered
loud at him, so that everyone around
heard so. | said; Because you didn'l
tell me, that's why His face got a.
red as them beets I'm bilin. He said
There's been enough checks deposited
to your account. You ought to know
you can settle anybody by lookin' al
EN- in the eye cold-like. 1t seems tc
tell EN- how small you think Of EN-
and that it amt much. ! says: 1t hap.
pens that the lady | work for de.
posted them checks every time. He
quoted down then and hands back
my book and said, thank you But his
face was red. l guess because l was
still lookin' square at him, cold-like
as if | thought he was so small
oughta had microscope to look al
him." o. -
Katie took up a plump, russell pear
Of fleckless surface, and stabbing /,
with the knife swiftly continued her
peeling. This pear is like Miss Ca.
hill, the girl at the drug store. I like
to go into the drug store just to buy
things from Miss Cahill, and | buys
things some times just to oblige her
because she's like a pear"
How, Katie"
Smooth, ma'am. You can never
tell what Miss Cahill's thinkin' be-
cause her outside is so smooth. l wa.
in there yesterday at the soda foun'
tain. A woman came in. seen thu
minute she came in the door she was
bilin' mad. She had package done
up, rough an homemade. She threw
it down on the counter an the string
came off and the woman opened hei
mouth, but Miss Cahill was too quicl
for her,. f
"'Oh, Mrs. Crimes she said. Yot
brought back the hot water bag. Il
leaked after all. Well be glad to re-
place it. All our rubber goods ar.
guaranteed. Here's one the same size
and that hasn't been in stock long
! am quite sure you will find it per
feet. If not bring it back and W,
will furnish another substitute. Coco
morning .,-
What could the woman dor Sh,
was mad clear through and she hac
come in to lay out the drug store. Blu
Miss Cahill was too smart for her
She knows that a complaint woulc
drive away trade, especially on Sat
urday, with all the farmers in town
So she got ahead of her. What do 20,
call it the way you speak Ma'am1.
"Forestalled her, Katie"
Eyes, ma'am, that's it, when 20,
think Eastern the other fellow, fore
stalled. She didn't give the othel
woman a chance to say a word. Sh,
talked the first and when the othe,
one did have chance to say a wore
there was nothin' for her to say. Mis-.
Cahill said it ALL" .....' II.