The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-16
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Cnigger Ridge, Va. Nov. Is, II.
Dear Solon:-
l notus that your esteemed paper
last Sunday on that "Ye Byrdtowne
Gossip page had a mess of pictures
of prominent men including Gov. Stu
art and Tom Gresham and etc. but /
never notused ano adv" rammed up
agin EACH name. I wish to congratu-
late you.
| Them women up at Occoquan Gala
booae have certainly got me all both
cred to death trying to flgger out
| whether they are patriots or traitors.
You reckerleck that first they pa
raded up and down in front of the
| White House like unhuman beans and
got throwed in the hoosegow. And
nothing for 81. 10 and so on hours
respt., which shows they like Hoover
| even II they did tell them Russian
missionaries what was over here try
| ing to touch u. Sam that w. Wilson
wasn't what the papers said he was.
| All ! got to say Is that | wish some
! of the wife's relatives what think my
joint Is their headquarters would sine
a pledge or get took up in such a SEN
| sible hoosegow one or the other or
maybe both, | aint no hog to fuss
war.
Scion, want you to do me a favor
/ and decide question for me. The
| boys what hang around the gen. store
| or evenings got into a argument the
| other evening about what a verb was.
| 1t WAS peli NELL for hour or more
and 1t finally simmered down to Slim
Simpson and me. me claiming verb
was the present tense OF proverh, and
Slim, the poor nut, standing out that
1t was name OF a uncrossed river
in Italy We got up a small wager
and wish you would let me know
who gifts the grapes SOS 1 can buy
some coal Much obleedge.
| / seen in the papers that Pres. VIII
son had plan to run the r. rs when
them big stiffs give up their Jobs ana
! go home to starye along with their
wives and babies. What you reckon
his plan is? l got notion he is GO
ing to commander some OF them free
and big talking republicans like Nun
cey and Roosevelt what amt got no
| Jobs at present and act like they want
| to do a powerful heap OF dust kicking
enduring these times OF ma jor misun-
| derstandings and put 'em to work.
| or course Willie Bryan amt no rep,
| thanks to good lean streak In him,
but wouldn't him and Teddy make
| pair, say Teddy the engineer and Will
| lie the conductor telling him when
| to git-up and when to who's. / kin
/ see Willie giving the signal to slow
| down for a dangerous crossing and
Teddy squirting his eye and opening
! up the throttle and hitting her at
high. And then / kin shut my eyes
and see a long line OF HOSES and sad
/ buggies and everybody poking their
heads out saying what smart fellow
| Willie was but 1t seemed that he lust
couldn't get in the right line of work
and what success the pore fellow
would have made II he had started
out In a big business like steel or
cold storage eggs and worked UP in
stead of fooling hisself about nobody
couldn't exactly All the pres chair but
| hisself. And then of course Teddy
| would only stop at places where sta
| tionmasters was in regulation army
7 uniforms and Of course they wouldn't
never stop to let La Toilette on at his
town and OF course Bob would git up
i in CoaEress> a. coon aS he walked TO
| Wash. and oawl Woodrow out and of
course l am just reckoning ali this
stun but any doughhead kin see 1t
wouldn't work including Dutchmen
But just the same, If they stop run
/ ming the narrow gauge to Chigger
Ridge / no of at least two human
beans what won't get no rest while
| they Is enjoying their starve like the
4 women in Occoquan only of course they
amt going to stop eating because they
! want to but on acct. OF the weekly
stipend amt coming in and when
! they go to the gen. to credit Mr.
Mosely will ask them. is they working
! or is they amt, and of course they Is
they amt and there you are, and as
soon as they get so weak from hun
| ger they can't talk back I am going
to walk up to their faces and say. Sic
! semper trattoribus. And reckon
that won't stop the old strike, eh
J Sol?
/ Well. Scion. could set here in
! front OF this blazing lightard knot and
I write all night except I amt got a
! solitary thing to write about like the
! above what Is mostly fake stuff and
no real philosophy like / usually shoot
] over the old plate. However, | would
/ like TO ask you IL any of your read
ers would care to send In a turkey
all dressed and everything for Ye
Scribe's Thanksgiving owing to the
+ fact that all his died when they was
little puppies. l writ you about the
sad dennis once before. ReckerIeckP
/ Well, got TO go out and fuss at my
I wife little now. She's got a notion
she needs a new hat and only wear
1 before last her sister give her one.
! Don't give no aid TO a republican
! during these democratic times and be
sure TO put the cat out.
/ Yours. -R. S. III.
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