The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-03
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originality u 06erfe.
time.
THE tenseness that attends the dis.
tributton of the mail prevails. The
boys are crowded about the mail Or
DERBY. pushing and showing. run
Mng fire Of hot wit rattlea the orderly.
whose fingers become thumbs.)
Private A. tjoshing)-Come on!
Come on! shuttle the cards, Biil, ana
give me a straight!
| Private B. (coyly)-Qh. Bill. why.
why art 30 noivous?
Orderly (peeved3 -SDsy up " none
OF you get your mail!
Private A. ito his pal)--Expect any
thing. Jim?
Private b. tindignantly)-Sure do.
Don't You suppose I'VE got folks?
set something every day. do. You
expect something?
| Private A. (softly)-Do /? Saw. YOU
seem to forget that I've got q girl.
Bless her! She has more originality
than any 10 girls ever knew.
Private b. (skeptical)-What dye
mean, original?
Private A. (fatuously)-Oh. Won
know-in sending things. Other girls
knit sweaters and wristlets and socks
but not she-she's original.
Prtvate e. (yrith pronounced scorn)
RI don't see how any one can be orig
tnal in knitting--all the blamed things
look alike. It's only the way you pun
em that makes socks or hats out OF
| ON.
Private A. Tin sublime faith)-Ha!
You don't know MY girl! She's got
en- all buffaloed. Why. / told her In
my last letter she could make a for
tune inventing things ii her dad ever
lost his money.
| Private B. (employing sarcasm)--
Ito! Her dads got coin! No wonder
she's original.
Orderly (snddenly)-Heres package
tor you, Private Arnold Feels like
something soft.
Private b. DIETING out a whoop)--
Hey fellows. there's something orig
inal in that Photographers see whar
It is.
Private A. (hugging' his beloved
package to him)-No, you don't!
CThe pursued unfortunate starts TO
make tracks across the field)
Private b. (giving chase)-Don't let
him get away with it. boys! He told
me the things his girl knitted didn't
look like anything We fellows got from
our folks--make him prove it. the
lobster!
(The hunted fox at last comes a
cropper under about 600 pounds OF
patriotic America)
Private B. (wresting the package
from him)-Now for 1t. fellows! Pre-
pare to be dazZled by originality---a
piece OF knitting that doesn't look like
sweater or wristlets or hat.
Chorus (vociferonsly)--I can't he
did,
Private b. Clearing the paper OFF,
! know 1t can't-thats the reason I'm
going to make him eat his words
). CATER getting rid OF two layers of
l wrapping paper. three of tissue and a
couple of yards of baby ribbon he
brings to light a knitted thing. II Is
indeed an alien. Pare pink all Inch
I wide three feet long and with a pink
[. satin loop at the end OF it,
e Chorus lin amaZe)-What Is the
: darned thing? What can 1t be"
:. Private B. Umperatively) Tell us
y what it is, Arnold.
i Private A. (disgusted)--I don't know
. what 1t is--find out yourself!
Private Il. tholding II alofD-Here's
8 your chance, fellows: let's make a
Y book on 1t. Any one who euesses right
e cashes in.
u Private c. lwith decision)-,I say its
part OF a cord for Il bathrobe.
Private D.-Nothing doing. It's u
muffler stuntcd In its growth
J. Private f. (ridiculing)-You're both
!. wrong: ] say It's comouflage for an
@ ell. Look! He's got a letter he's hid
8 ing from us. I'll bet 1t tells In that
t what it is--get 1t. Brown!
Private B. (reading under difficult.
r ties)-"And so Jimmie, DEAR I'm send
d Ing something original again-a sweet
little holder for those darling swagge,
}. sticks you boys carry: you can hang
d 1t UP beside your cot and it'll be cute
e rs anything!
e Chorus (hysterically) - OF! Ate,
that--brfng on the boches.