The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-03-04

WHEN me and Rowdy got to the
w house this morning II was wide
awake, and the sister-in-law said she
didn't believe Il knew how to cry. |
suppose just being out OF heaven Il
| don't know how TO cry, but | bet It viii
learn how before IL has been in the
world long The world Is a punk place
Just because Of the people that are in
it, II there was nobody in the world
ii would be perfectly beautiful. don't
suppose | knew how 10 cry when | first
left heaven but when your mother has
gone back to heaven and your father
is night watchman in bank and
your dog has fleas and nobody plays
with you you soon learn to cry. and |
am so much brighter than most children
that I suppose ! learned to cry quicker
than any other kid could have have
! crawled under our house lots OF times
but | don't believe | will ever crawl
under it again | am getting too big
for that and the next kid that makes
me want TO cry had better climb tree
for he will think he has started some
thing,
When school let out I went home and
got the money and went over to the
store and said for the man TO give me
dozen bananas, and he did and me
and Rowdy took them down to where
the railroad goes across the river and
we sat down there TO watch the trains
10 past, and to eat our bananas aud
there did not any train go past all the
time we were there so that the railroad
track is wasted about half the time and
they ought TO find something else to use
il for. Then. | found out that the last
banana | had was rotten on the inside
and that is just like the man at the
grocery, he catches me when ! am not
looking and slips me something that
is not any good. OF course me and
Rowdy had to go back and exchange II
and | did not like that at all and he
was alone when we went In the store
and said, "Say, do you know you gave
me a rotten banana" and he said
What of il, you have to take your
chance when you buy bananas" so
spread il open and put II on the counter
and he looked at it and said, 1T don't
look very good, what are you soing
to do about it1"
lT SAID / am going TO take a new one
L so did and he did not say anything
and Just then a man come in and
pushed me out OF his way so that
nearly fell into box Of oranges, anC
said to the storekeeper Give me Z
package OF tobacco and some papers
and hurry" and he went to lean ovel
the counter to point to the kind h,
wanted and he put his hand all spreaC
out on the banana | had brought bacl
and il squashed up between his finger!
and he told the man in the store tina
he kept the dirtiest store in town, anC
the man in me store said he had som'
ofNhe dirtiest customers there were IL
the town, and the man that leaned OF
the banana reached across and got hin
, by the necktie and pulled him over an'
5 wiped the banana Of his hand on tn
store mans hair and took his tobacc,
!. out of the store mans hand and wen
u out, and then the store man hollere,
for me and Rowdy to get out, he sal
} it was all my fault, and / said it wa
, all his fault because he gave me
rotten banana. and II was, and toll
him il he hollered at me just once NOR
Rowdy would do worse things to hir
than the man did, so then | took m
good banana and went but It was to
late to go to the bridge again so ! ate
out in the street and then me an
Rowdy went home and sat on our stei
/ | did not get any supper because
wasn't feeling hungry, a dozen banana
being kinda filling, and after awhile
! went in and prayed when me and Rowd