The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-09-27
FROM RING W.LARLNER
Who Says He Could FIJI Seed Gaia.
Logue With the Funny Ones His
Son John has Pulled on Him.
Home, September 20. 1918.

they's q few Of you that never even
heard of my son John and / could fill
seed catalogue with the funny ones
he has pulled like one day he said
Daddy Che calls me daddy on account
of ! being his daddy they's a bee in
Niles, Michigan, that lays currant jel-
ly." But | suppose you don't think
that's as funny as some of the ones
your John has pulled, so they's no use
repeatin' whole lot more of them.
But anyway we named him John on
account of my name incitning people
to make puns about it and many's the
time | strangled nearly to death try
ing to laugh at the gags people have
pulled about my name and they prob
ably didn't figure that | had heard
them all as often as the one about the
I'd lieut.. or somebody that made the
private salute him hundred times OF
something and etc.
But anyway, John is years old and
you wouldn't never believe it to look at
him on account of being so big and
smart and you would guess him at 8
or something and in that respect he
takes after his father because they's
lots of people that's just met me and
they are trying to make up conversa-
ton or something and they generally
always ask me if / felt nervous at
Chichamauga, whereas the fact is
that when Dolly Gray came out l was
still singing sopranner yet.
Well, on acct. of the merchants try
ing to start up correspondence with
me the l of every month, l half to
work and / can't do it home because
they's so many places to lay down, so
leave home about once per day and
come back home pretty near as often,
and when | open the front door how
ever l come into the house, John comes
running to meet me and for while
figured it was on acct. of he being
so crazy about me, but / finally realiz-
ed that he didn't never offer me no
caresses or honey words, but all he
ever said was Daddy, what did you
bring me?" Well, when | didn't have
rothing for him his race would fall
and somebody would half to pick it up
but / couldn't bring him something
everything l come home because even if
it wasn't only transfer the wear and
tear of remembering it every night
was bound to get man in time and
Just offered him the evening paper. 1t
meant / would half to turn to the COM
zeal pictures and explain them all out
and without knocking no car
toonist, the man that tries to explain
some of them to 8 year old has got
q bigger job Of explaining 1on their
hands than the poor bird that has to
write the official German commune
Gates.
Well, they wasn't nothing that
do for every day diet you might say
so finally l established the custom of
getting him something pretty nice
once in while and then telling to
not expect nothing more for a long
time and that was pretty good, only
the something nice was generally al
ways Simon poor wreckage after a
few days treatment, or if it was book
he had to have it read to him every
evening till he got another and it
didn't seem to make no difference to
him how often you read the same sto-
ry over and over again, but it did
make difference to the dear reader
and many's the time | wished this
hero Thornton Burgess was a truck
driver or something.
Well, along this summer l left the
house l morning like usual and when
and John parted he says Daddy you
haven't brought me anything for a
long time and you have got to bring
me something nice today" So l said
"All right" and when l went down
town and got haircut and afterwards
] couldn't remember nothing only a
few extracts from the BARRIERS mono.
logue so / forgot all about John but
happened to be looking through my
desk for the typewriter and l come
across a card that had layed there
since May and it said on it that |
could present the card at the bank
and get hundred dollar Liberty Bond
Bond for it, cause mere is how it hap
pened
This day in May it seems like / had
just got paid and | was eating lunch
and / had $40 in my close outside of
my pay envelope and while l was eat
ing bird come up that / hadn't saw
him for couple yrs. and the last time
| seen him | was in doze and lent
him $40, and anyway he come up and
says here is that 500, and you could of
knocked me over with coupling pin,
but anyway there | set with 500
on me besides some chickens feed and
they was a beautiful gal in the place
that must have suspected as much at
LIST, being | know she was standing
there by the table asking me would |
like to subscribe to Liberty Bond.
Well, if that gal asked you to sub
scribe for the palsy they wasn't no way
of saying no, so | says yes and she
says how much and | says 500 and
she says how did want to pay for it
and there was some walters in hear
ing so / says Cash and she swooned
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