The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-21
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!! Chigger Ridge, Va. Nov. 20, II.
I Dear Solon:--
/ Don't them grafters put over lot
of stuff on acct. of the war? Take
collars. Here / am today buying an
other one and only six months ago
when 1 bought this here enc l got on
l only paid ten c. for it and now j
am forking over to them greasers
20c. If they keep on monkeying with
! me / viii stop wearing these Willy BOY
/ celluloid fancy collars and start wear
fng dog collars what has got as much
sense to them and won't wear out.
/ | don't aim to be a goat all my three
score and ten.
Molly Pettigrew amt speaking to
her beau now. Another case of lack
OF uniform,
Mr.. Talman. What tellors at The
! American Nat. Blk, asked ye scribe
what team n. Ivey thought would
i win thanksgiving coming and y.
! Gvey said w. and j. and Mr.. Talman
said, all right, / am safe, ". aud Lee
N'll win. y. Ivey is the boy who told
MIR, Talman conhdentially that Ely
son was the only man In the race.
! I notus that the gov has cut down
on them electric light spendthrifts
/ and that they got to cut off the gay
stuff at eleven bells. There amt moth
! ms like a democratic gov. for the
! W Sc stuff. They got scientists up
i there IL Wash. what has got all that
! fggered out to a eyelash. They got
secret serVus men in Berlin what
knows what time them airships leave
over there and they set down and fig
gered it out that they couldn't get
here before eleven at night to save
sheir lives and so they put out the or
der ami say, out with the bright lights
at eleven There amt no doubt but
/ what all them Dutchman flyers will
die of heart sickness now owing to the
fact that they got to come all the way
/ over here and not chance TO muir
| der baby or a woman or nothing
! becouse of course they amt going to
throw no buns at night owing to the
| fact that they might hit a l. ". w. or
| a paciIist or a picketeer or Bob La
Toilette or a food hog, but they got
to keep on coming, hoping that the
5Witchman Will so tn sleep in the gas
ioIfus and they get a shot al residense
full Of dangerous babies and mill
tant old women. A fellow cant be
too careful now and can't thank the
dem gov. at Wash. too much for their
foresight. / am keeping my eye peel
ed on the Dutchman what used to
IL.
speak to me since | voted dry and
the first time he even so much as tries
- light cigar or a pipe or anything,
don't care, his name is Dennis and
you can depend on good story from
me shortly after the demice.
t-SoIorl-- What-is-set -tha-fYiatter
with the publishing businessr l set
down here and rite story about a
pore old wilder shutting off or a
, farm hand leaning UP against a buzz
, saw and getting separated in two and
iaH the neiEhbors come in to tell me
, now they seen Il In the Echo and how
they like to have laughed theyselves
: 10 death and that it is fine and all
that and that better take I'D WRITING
all the time and let Badly Myer run
: the Hwy stable Az he Ioafs around
there all the time anyway and | SET
down and dash off few funny pieces
anout how rotten the rep. party is and
, Ten the funny side about how good
, old man Taft is but don't be handing
mat tafty stuff to a dem. pres. about
/ how to run gov. In time where
r Drains Is needed and send them TO that
fotten Life" What ue2eS ~;5Lib any
I thlng funny In IT'S life except when a
, member OF the stafr dies and what d0
they do? send It right back to me
before l get home from the post offus
, Almost What YOU reckon is the mat
: ! ter Is they out OF paper or sense ?
I hey re hGlng to ruin the budding ge-
. mus or the country with SIGH pranks
II you ever run across that fellow
q MNcheH what is editor OF Life" and
wrote that rotten book Amos Iuda
IS SIC. you tell him where to get off. the
SIs sum. His old paper cam go to the
. bankrupt before / send HIM ANYTHING
"ise / am of him for life.
, monte Blakley dropped in to saw
' memo Ola TELLER how are you and shake
nahos' Monte Is in the headquarters
, oept over at Petersburg and has gain.
ed ten lbs, however he used Ia he a
. newspaper reporter.
: scribe had eggs for dinner down
! 20 ms house Tues. past and left the
Ntitheh door open so that the reiqh
noFs could get brief taste OF high
NE. Scion, they tasted lust as net
, ufdl only better and the next time
: Aelf CO pays dividend you ougbt -
puy one and get that bloated feeling
! tHsht many Wild ducks are being
; had by the villagers. They seem r.
ne IN quite quantity this year. Cor,s
Gown some weekend and I win go,
mat Old squirrel rifle down from Owe,
tHe fireplace and / and you will 20
out ana relieve the meat shortage
a am notused no increase I'm thf
q HFefy business and If that dernice al
! pleasure cars don't come across n,
, per schedule am going to enter q
!. sur against that scare-head reporte,
, what wrote that piece claiming SAM
. LOT extra work ! put in at the barn
ms am no threat but the truth anc
man what has been pricked on al
( e.Nes from this on acct. of the wa,
, sluH amt got no patients left to non.
KEY around and lose no chunk y,
. money for no monkey business.
mere amt no news on the Ridge
"ut Just as soon as that Dutchmar
, strikes match after eleven I will send
. you red-hot story. In the mean.
9 time don't waste no sugar and n,1,
your enange on Wash. and jeff. and
aont mean no Mutt and JEFF. re,
, me right.
Yours Respectfully.