Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-08-14
Our Weekly Fable In Slang
BY BARTON RICHARDS

or another he met the village Queen.
She was some queen al that. ,~7 like
a.! perfectly proper Queens. had
e11fa - ay-s and ~ Aarsing
around cer To cur friend, VINO fedat
seen girl Tor five weeks, sna looked
like the personiication of one of these
ladies' the fiction writers like to rave
about, and he decided % wise her up IS
&c what, where and why Re 7sas was.
Three ice cream sodas and a movie
was a wild night in this ;ne.ropolis
and tn efavorite P. N. sport was West
.nizing up and down the boulevard
AS Uncle Sam paid for his shoes, this
arrangement suited our friend and he
started to do the boulevard with the
queen connected with his right wing.
The village butched passed them IN
his 1911 Dynamite Doozer. and as he
chug chugged by. our friend casually
mentioned that his car was slightly
different than that. In fact. it was
the ne plus ultra of cars in his town
and was q 120-horse power
After doing the boulevard a pair OF
times they hit it back to the paternaI
manse Of the quee and the c. A
opened up his heavy verbose artillery.
a he sat in he family rocker. he gave
her the history of his life and accord
inS e. his dop it was some history.
HIS father had a strange hold on about
&c per cent Of the available supply If
e thy lucr i. ais home town. and tho
bank presidents had 10 come to him
when they wanted money.
AS to himself, he mentioned that mis-
favorite hobby as collecting canoes
and he said that he had collected
quite a heap in his time. He told the
= a hn eL
around and that he seldom was in ono
place very long. AS a word PAINTER he
was G hit and after he got through
with the scenes he waa painting. he
had the young iady believing that she
had met the only son II an ". NJ,
whsca as you know, mears mtAti-nail-
Aona.re
Now f this epic was not tue. I "ould
draw the curtain right hers or could
20 en- and paint a picture of church.
a wedding party. ana tbs bells ioias
tie tlnsle tinkle with everybody happy
but Truth is q hard taskmistress SO
we are forced to relate how the queens
big brother went north one morning
and in the course of his travels tap-
peusd 10 hit the town Of cur Young
hero This is what he unearthed.
He found that the Spanish G;h-
lete's statements about himself were
true. partly. The dope about him hav-
ing a car was true He mad i nice big
5-passenger car ttlat was made by
the St. Louis Car Co. and the cam
eos he collected We're that familiar
cameo you see on our national litney
Piece. AS to ais moving around a lot
he moved all the time. and tho orly
time he stopped was TO take on pss-
seugers o. to push his IA - in the car
and yell Arch street The little re-
mark as to his fataet having
strange hold on the available cash
WIS also partly true. The old man was
a Waterman in tie biggest bank IN
town and mad the keys 10 The deposit
vaults.
All Of which goes to snow thst dis
lance lends enchanrmcnt and that II
takes all kinds OF people 10 make a
world or an army # the Spanish
athlete ever gets 10 Berlin he prob
ably Win talk the Kaiser into resign
ing. All he needs is a cha e to talk
Moral--Truts crushed 10 earth will
rise again, unless you use a stone
crusher