The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-01-29
He Considered
Himself Smart
BY BARBARA PHIPPS

| was talkin' with Mandy Simmons
tSeaer day. | was tellin her about nv
Srops' just how much wheat Id TUX
now much corn and produce, and
eaded UP by confdin' TO her that I'd
pHf III the bank morcn 5000 over an(l
above expenses, Twin and all that.
MANDY s nice gal. l wouldn't "a told
a9TeoGy else what told her. Ii seem
eoshke was tellin' it TO myself.
Land sakes, Mr.. Rarnickcl," said
Mandy, how tight you do stick 70
yer farm and yer crops and the money
yer putin in the bank: Amt v ever
goln' to think about gcttin' married
and havin' some one to leave all ye,.
fortune to when v Gie?"
Somehow I'd never thought q that.
Ia lett lonesome ike evenin 5 IcU, I'm j.;
then, and when Id lad !! stroke o.
luck | felt kind alike tcIl:n' some nm
about it. That's the reason why tolc
Mandy how much profit Ed made
durin' last season. SAYS to Mandy
when she talked about my gettin' some
un to leave my earnin's to, says /:
u dunno any gal as would have me.
and man can't marry unless he's cot
GAL
why, Mr.. Barnickel," says Mandy.
i don't reckon you'd have any trouble
on THAT score. l was standin lookin.
at gal t'other day, and she said some-
pin to me. couldn't hear what it
I
about you. l asked her TO write it
down, and she did. What do you
s'pose it was?"
y dunno"
ut was 1 wish .Jeb Barnickel would
propose to me-
was TUX fat aback. l didn't know
any gal that had even Looked at re
that away. asked Mandy who the
gal was, but she wouldn't tell me.
She chuckled and said might ask
her three questions, to which she
would answer truthfully, provided |
didn't ask the gals name. l began
by aslin' her where she was when
she was talkin' to the gal, and she
said she was in the Twin room at
home. Then | asked her why she
couldn't hear what the gal said. and
she answered that there was glass be-
tween her and the other gal.
Oh l says, "she was standin' out
on the porch or in the yard, and the
winder was shut down."
Mandy didn't say nothin' to this, but
she larfed fit to xiii herself Id asked
her two questions and had one more
to ask. The only thing could think
of for this last question was, Where
was the gal when she writ down what
you said she did," l asked her this.
and she said the gal was in the same
room with her.
II don't want her, says l.
WHY not:'- asked Mandy. serious
like. ~
!" Cause she must be deaf and
dumb"
With that, Mandy like to split her
SIDES larfin'. l didn't like bein' made
fun of that away, and / looked it.
With that, Mandy looked sorry and
ssid1ed up to me and cuddled me lit
tie, and she says, says she:
Mr.. Barnickel, it wouldn't be right
for me to give gal away like that.
But I'll tell you what I'll do. She
often comes to see me Saturday even
ms. If you'd care to drop in some
Saturday evenin' if she comes in, you'll
see her."
That's far" says 1. "I'll come next
Saturday. How will I know when a
gal comes in she's the gal that was
talkin' to you?"
ooh, I'll put you on says Mandy.
and with that she went away, with a
spark in her eye and a smile On her
lips. She looked so pretty that kinda
wished she and l was keepin' house
together and there wasn't any other
gal had anything to do with it.
Saturday night put on my store
clothes and a. boiled shirt and went