Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-12
AROUND THE CITY.

he was through with that I'd teach.
Look this word over please. I can't
make IL out"
That's the way things go in this
world! You can't even try to make
things extra pleasant in heaven for a
boy who hasn't got there yet. but what
a copy reader has to interrupt your inS'
SEPARATION merely for the correction OF a
misspelled word
And a most ordinary word. at that!
"Sellin' out for f. cents-sellin' out
for-Whatcher have this mawnin,.
LADY,
Her face was the brown of old oak.
and in her voice was the mellow chant
south Her stand-a box before which
she squatted on the curb-was white
bloom of daisies. On one end were
three eggs in a berry box and at the
other a hare's foot alongside with
cred black something with claws to IL
laid on a big green leaf. In the middle
of everything was fat dressed chicken
with its stiff feet sticking in the air. -
Til take that chicken-here's your
nickel" @"
mirth. in which her customer took
sociable turn.
"G'way. lady, When chickens draps-
to f. cents de country's ruined. That
Dominecker pullet sings for 9S cents"
but seem it's you -
What in the world is this?"
That's mud turtles fiipper. LADY,.
what brings good luck same as hare
foot. only better
rs 1t ) cents?"
NO. indeed. honey: fiippers come
high. Dey has to be cotched on de
fuller de moon for de chawm to wuk.
1t amt like hares dat you traps COM =.
mon. Dat fipper is wuff evy cent Of
thutty cents. but you mout have IL for
leben cents dis mawnin. SEEM it's
you-
And how much for the hare's foot-5
cents. eh?''
amt seen nair to hole a can'le to it "
roun' dis mahket for munts. But amt
gwine tote it back iT'n you wants IL
bad nun TO pay me 10 cents for it
''Dey amt no luck to beat barefoot
luck-'cep'n' mud turkle fippers, o.
course"
What is the difference
"Welum. a hare foot jes' brings YOU
luck in mahiage an money, but a 'spon-
sible mud turkle flipper bonner take you
straight to de good place when you
dies
Eternal happiness seemed cheap at the
price, and the pain-looking one. having
lost all chances of ever getting a hus--
band. paid the penny's difference and took
the fiipper away Also. she bought a
bunch of daisies cents-and Also
again. business being business. added go
silver coin in payment for putting the
sale down-like this. -
pig in crate is novel enough to
capture city attention any day in the
year The crate stood on the pavement.
in front of an express office, and the
black and white spotted porker. with
its quivery nose and cup-handle tail.
accepted his prison bars with the
of a race that spends most
Of Its years doing time in pen
Naturally, passing people gave the
show word or giggle Of comment. and
one ragtag boy shrilled out to any one
who would listen:
Ketch on to de cnary in de cagew
That Isn't a canary bird. It's a pig"
The entirely correct diagnosis was
voiced by a little chap whose neatness %
showed for mothers tenderest care.
He couldn't take a joke. but 1t was
equally obvious that never never =
would he take, say, pocketbook that
didn't belong to him.
But the look of plying scorn on the :
face and his whoop of derision
brought a round of outlaws that would -,
+ 80.
He moved from the end seat Of an
open car to make room for a woman.
Pretty soon the woman made an
,ther woman pass over her. She wasn't,
giving up her seat at the end
And the man who had moved up said
% the man on his left:
This happens every time I do the
correct thing by gentle sister,"
MAMIE LANCASTER.