The record. (Greenville, Ky.) 1899-1???, 1918-10-31
LOOK out FOR
PETER PERKINS
The Story of a Man Who Came To.
BY Abb Mcguire Roach.

IL WAS nearly nine U ClOCh "hNh y
ter got in from the field that night.
They were Swing hay and daylight,
and he was tired Noon to nine was
some stretch II 60 without taking on
any fuel, Besides he was grouchy.
Jim had had 70 go off with the draft
that day
Mamie, who was watching, had his
meal on the fable by the time he
was ready. Sic had had a hard day
herself. what Nth I'm and the house
and the babies. But she was there
with the g00Ss-hOt stuff and she
shore gave q han some plateful! Pc
ter felt the comforting effects of that
meal before he had gotten at it.
And still he had 10 have his growl!
Zine time & day t be settin' down
T. supper :" Id said Might as we'll
be some o them Moo York Swells-
dinner at ninet and then on t. show
an dance"
"Well, one more job t. tn good"
Mamie smiled It's like the service
flag painted IN the big, white barn
would have abOther star put on it,
tn lady said tliay-ws are th' folks t
practice whVf folks like her are
preaehin': an@ she said she didn't
know but whra Ourn wus tn hardest
part.
Il went in With Jim, v" know, and
afterwards ! stopped by and heerd
t.:at lady from tn other side that tn
Governments sendin' round. My, but
it makes v understand lot better
and brings thisgs closter t. v, t hear
somebody t.iify like that, that's edu-
Gated, an as hAen there, and en- make
is all so clear I,
''She says tn war hasn't really
touched this country yit; we don't
know nOthin' about smoke er blood er
havin' t do without, not really. Why,
she says in hes country tn little chill
dren have beer savin' their sugar fer
their soldiers, and in ROOshia and a
lot o them other places over there
they're livin on stuff that we wouldn't
think was fit fe- much of anything but
TIL pigs. y
o. food over list year, but this year
lis got t. be teen million. We fed
million az soldiers,
> ,.,s .I.,si4.,
besides All tl,<... otnrt people behind
til Ines.
SHE says we've just got t cut out
--tnore-wasteI an all these Injuries
and eXtrys, err we will want, even eff
we haven't done = yit, an everybody
else Willard git licked, tOo-yit-
with Jim in lief we don't do our
part in every way"
"Where's that half o pie that was
left from dinner" Peter inquired
having just about demolished all op,
position and looking for fresh terrain
to turn his attention to-
"Oh, Peter, you can't have dessert
twict a day! Whit vas I just tellin
v? Pie takes sugar and pie takes
flour and pie takes shOrtenin', and VI
know its all them things that tn
Government wants us t. save fer TIL
soldiers an tn other people ovel
there"
'Oh, fer tn lords sake!" Peter
broke OUT. Food, food, food! ant
money an other people ever sence
tn star o this damned war. Seems
like Teller en- have anything he
wants t eat just SOS he don't want i,
and it amt eaeable. I'm sick t deatl
O food"
Corn bread and vegetable and fruit
and eggs and milk and chickens,
Mamie murmured
But Peter was in no mood TO listen
"Carin' more about all them other PEG
pie than about your own husband an,
children Carin' more about then
people over there than about all u.
people Over mere, We're just as i'm
portant rs anybody. We do just a!
much. We do JUST rs much as tn,
soldiers. Jim says ST., and you know
1t. They couldn't lit along withOu
us. Look out fer Peter Perkins is m,
motto. WE got t DO our work an,
we've GOT t. have our food t do itpn.
9Th, lady said,' Mamie spoke afte
a moment in quiet voice, that som,
people seemed like they couldn't I'm
derStand until it got them err some O
tn people they cared about She sait
that was why so many people wa
just heginnin' t. nderStand-really-
in this country. But she said"
Peter had ghtten up and was look
ing around him Ike i baited bull, ant
Mamie rose, too, her voice urgent ant
shaking q little with emotion, 18Th.
sais when m: body onct had seen q
| understood, they couldn't never 81
| away from thinkin' about it, an
carin' it was like havin' somebody O
their own in 1t; All them millions o
people over there, hghtin' and suffer
| In an OWN, err sick and Starvin' ant
| homeless, while we only have t. worl
little harder an: eat little more o
different kind ~ food
"Where's-that-Pie". Peter hal
| laughed, hnlf growIed. He was look
! ing in the safe and the bread box
| YOU'D better let me have it becauS,
I'll find il. Pie or die! Pie at an,
price for me I'll eat Jim's piece, now
fer him. Touch me anywhercs else
but leave me easy In my stomick.
tell v that's where man lives
But Nunuie wouiu not smile. Sht
went over to the cupboard where Sh,
had put pie away for tOmOrrOw's din
ner and got it and set it on the tabl,
| before him. Then she wheeled an,
started into tpe other room. On tn,
verge OF its luminous silence and OBJ
. scurity she paused, however, ana
| turned The lass Of the daylight wa