The Adair County news., 1918-10-30
LOOK OUT FOR
PETER PERKINS
The Story Of Man Who Came TO.
BY Abby Mcguire Roach.

BY Abby Mcguire Roach.
II was nearly nine o'clock when Pc
ter got IN from the field that night
They were saving hay and daylight
and he was tired. Noon to nine was
some stretch to 60 without taking on
any fuel Besides he was greuchy-
Jim had had to go of with the draft
that dayl
Mamie, who was watching, had his
meal on the table by the time he
was ready. She had had a hard day
herself, what with Jim and the house
and the babies But she was there
with the goods-hot stuff and she
shore gave a man some plateful! Pc
ter felt the comforting effects Of that
meal before he had gotten at it.
And still he had to have his growl
Slime time o. day t. be settin' down
t support" he said. might as wen
be some o. them Moo York swells-
dinner at nine and then on t. show
an dance"
"WeN, one more job t tn good"
Mamie smiled. Its like the service
flag painted on the big, white barn
would have another star put on it,
tn lady said t'day-we are tn folks t
practice whut folks like her are
| preachin'; and she said she didn't
know but whut ourn wuS tn hardest
part.
IT went in with Jim, y know, and
afterwards I stopped by and heerd
that Lady from tn other side that tn
| Governments sendin' round. My, but
it makes y understand a lot better
and brings things closter t y, t hear
somebody talk like that that's edu-
Gated, an as been there, and en- make
is all so clear!
"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 her country tn little chill
dren have been savin' their sugar fer
their soldiers, and in Rooshia and a
lot o. them other places over there
they're Twin on stuff that we wouldn't
think was fit fer much of anything but
tn pigs.
''She says we sent ten million tons
o. food over last year, but this year
it's got t. be fifteen million We fed
million an a half o. cur soldiers
but next year it win be twict as many.
besides all them other people behind
III lines.
"She says we've just got t. cut out
-more-waste an all these luxuries
and extrys, .er we will want, even Cd
we haven't done it yit, an everybody
else willard git licked, too-yit-
with Jim in it-ef we don't do oul
part in every way"
"Where's that half o. pie that wa:
left from dinner" Peter inquired
having just about demolished all op
position and looking for fresh terrain
to turn his attention to.
ooh, Peter, you can't have desser
twict day! Whut was just tellin
y? Pie takes sugar and pie take'
flour and pie takes Shertenin', and y
know it's all them things that tn
Government wants us T. save fer tn
soldiers an tn other people owe
there"
~Oh, fer tn Lords sake!" Pete
broke out. FOOD, food, food! ant
money an other people ever senc
tn start o. this damned war. Seem
like a Teller en- have anything h
wants t. eat just SOS he don't want
and it amt eatable. I'm sick t dealt
o. food"
"Corn-bread and vegetable and frui
and eggs and milk and chickens,
Mamie murmured
But Peter was in no mood TO lister
-Carin' more about all them other pet
pie than about your own husband an
! children! Carin' more about thes
people over there than about all U
, people over here! We're just as in
portant as anybody. We do just a
much. We do Just as much as th
soldiers Jim says SO, and you kno'
it. They couldn't git along withor
u.s. Look out fer Peter Perkins is m
, Rotto. W've got t. do our work an
we've got t. have our food It do 1t on
9Th, Lady said" Mamie spoke aftf
q moment in quiet voice, that som
people seemed like they couldn't VI
derstand until it got them er some
tn people they cared about. She sal
that was why so many people wa
just beginnin' t ENTHUSIASTICALLY
: i'm this country. But she said"
: Peter had gotten up and was leol
= ing around him like baited bull, an
Mamie rose, too, her voice urgent an
shaking a little with emotion, "sh
said when anybody onct had seen {
understood, they couldn't never g
D away from ttinkin' about it, al
? carin' it was like havin' somebody
their own In It: all them millions
people over there, 6ghtin' and suffe
in am dyjn', er sick and starvin' an
homeless, while we only have t woI
q little harder and eat little more {
different kind o. food
SWhere,s-tha4-pieT Peter ha
laughed, half growled. He was Loo
q ing in the safe and the bread DO
You'd better let me have it becau.
IN find it. Pie or die! Pie at an
price for mel I'll eat Jim's piece, mon
fer him. Touch ne anyvheres eas
but leave nae cary In my sbomick.