The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-28
Coo,11I~ 1919

7 WOULD rather go fishing with my
| own true daddy than to 20 TO Sun
day school and laid and thought
about that when woke up, and when
asked Rowdy how about him and he
wagged his tail and that meant so
would he, and knew he would be-
cause he has belonged TO a little Irish
girl ever since he has been a dog so
ne must have Irish ways by this time.
When eat fish | pick out all the
stickery little bones before | swallow
the fish but Rowdy eats bones and
heads and tails and wags his tail and
looks up and wonders where and when
ne IS going to get any more. | think
the machinery of a fish is very inter
esting and instructive. A fish has a
little bloom shaped like man inside
OF II only the bloom amt got any head
on II only the body and legs and the
legs is kinda short, and in the bloom
there is nothing but air, my daddy
says it is wind bag, but he is wrong
because air is wind standing still and
wind has to stand still when it is in
such a small place, and the air bag
Is to make the fish float whenever he
wants TO and when he don't want to
which, is most all the time he works
his fins and things and STAYS down.
II human people had a bag inside of
them filled with gas instead OF air
they could float around in the air like
fish does in the water, but Of course
! don't blame God because He could
not think OF everything.
IF | had gas bag inside of me |
4 would not need to ever be an angel
because being an angel would not get
me anything because il | had a gas
bag could fly like one and would
not want anything better than that.
Then while the angels was eating milk
and honey which is all the poor ever
iastlngly happy things get to cat I
could be setting on the edge of a cloud
eating hot dog or an ice cream cone,
and that would be heaven enough for the
Irish. Theh | could drift down 10 get
my daddy a domestic science dinner
and If Rowdy had one we could play
hide and seek around the clouds, but
when It came time to sleep | expect
would have TO tie the mattress 20 the
underside of the bed and then float in
under the bed and up against the mat
tress, because II ! went to lie on the ton
side OF the mattress | would wake IN
and find myself lying up against the
ceiling. and would have 10 push the
ceiling kinda hard to get down 10 the
lio'r by the time my own true daddy
"'' Nome from watching, and then when
! wanted to go out walking would
h'"e to carry an armful Of rocks TO
} y me down, and | don't know how
J would do about Rowdy because a
DC" has not got any pockets and is
not built TO carry rocks. You might
not think so at first but I guess God
was on the job all righ.~and the fish
can have their air bloom.
When MY daddy came In from his
watching ] was just beginning to get
breakfast and he said he was good and
sleepy because he did not get much
sleep yesterday account OF fishing. and
then cleaning the fish and cooking
them. He said they was better than
lake fish because lake fish have scales
on them that are laid on like shingles
are laid on = house and they have 10
be scraped off before you do anything
else to the fish and they are not very
good to eat " you happen to get one
in your mouth. II human person wa,
covered with scales like a fish Il
would be just like being covered with
finger nails. and they could be a cir
Gus all by themselves. am glad they
are not, anyhow am glad ] am not
but II would be kinda interesting to see
anyone that was. bet il il was a little