The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-01
LOOK out FOR
PETER PERKINS
The Story Of Man Who Came To.
BY Abby Mcguire Roach.

| They were saving hay and daylight,
| and he was tired. Noon to nine was
some stretch to 90 without taking on
| any fuel. Besides he was grOuchy.
Jim had had to go off with the draft
| that day.
Mamie, who was watching, had his
meal on the table by the time he
was ready. She had had Il 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 man some plateful Pc
ter felt the comforting effects of that
meal before he had gotten. at IL.
And still he had to have his growl
"Fine time o. day { be scttin' down
| 4 support" he said. might as well
| be some o them Moo York swells-
dinner at nine and then on t a show
| an dance"
"Well, 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 {
practice whut folks like her are
preachin'; and she said she didn't
know but whut ourn wus tn hardest
part.
81 went in with Jim, " know, and
afterwards | stopped by and heerd
tuat lady from III other side that tn
| Governments sendin' round. My, but
| II makes v understand q lot better
and brings things closter { v, ( hear
somebody talk like that, that's edu-
Gated an as been there, and en- make
| is all so cleari
"She says tn war hasn't really
touched this. country yit we don't
| know nothin' about smoke or blood er
| havin' { do without. not really. Why,
| she says in her country tn little chill
| Grcn have been savin' their sugar fer
| their soldiers, and i'm Rooshia and Al
| lot o. them other places over there
| they're Twin on stuff that we wouldn't
| think was fit fer much of anything but
III pigs.
"She says we sent ten million tons
| q food over last year, but this year
| it's got T. be fifteen million. We fed
Il million an half o our soldiers,
| hut next year IL will be twict as many,
| besides all them other people behind
| III lines.
"She says we've just got { cut out
--more-waste an all these luXuries
| and eXtrys or we will want, even eff
| we haven't done it yit, an everybody
! else willard git licked, toO-yit-
with Jim in it-ef 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
| twlct IA day! Whit was | just telin'
v? Pie takes sugar and pie takes
| flour and pie takes shOrtenin', and W
know it's all them things that tn
| Government wants us L save fer tn
soldiers an tn other people over
| there"
"Oh, fer tn Lords sake.' Peter
broke out. Food, food, food and
money an other people ever sence
/ u.
| like Il Teller en- have anything he
| wants L eat just SOS he don't want it
and it amt eatable I'm sick I death
| O food"
"Corn-bread and vegetable and fruit
and eggs and milk and chickens"
| Mamie murmured
But Peter was i'm no mood 10 listen
/ W .s..f
pie than about your own husband and
| children! Carin' more about them
| people over there than about all us
| people over here! We're just as i'm
| portant as anybody. We do just as
much. We do just as much as the
soldiers. Jim says so, and you know
| IL. They couldn't git along without
us. Look out fer Peter Perkins is my
motto. W've got t. do our work and
we've got T. have our food I do it on"
| "rh, lady said" Mamie spoke after
a moment In quiet voice, that some
| people seemed like they couldn't un-
derstand until il got them er some o.
tn people they cared about. She said
that was why so many people was
| just beginnin' t d-really-
In this country. But she said"
Peter had gotten up and was look
ing around him like baited bull, and
Mamie rose, too, her voice urgent and
shaking little with emotion, "she
said when anybody onct had seen er
understood, they couldn't never git
away from thlnkin' about it, an
| carin'; ii was like havin' somebody o.
their own In II; all them millions o.
people over there, fightin' and suffer
in an dyin', or sick and starvin' and
homeless, while we only have T. work
II little harder and eat n little more of
u different kind o. food"
"Where's-that-pie? Peter half
laughed, half growied. He was look
ing i'm the safe and the bread box
"You'd better let me have II because
| I'll find IL. Pie or die Pie at any
| price for me I'll eat Jims piece, now,
fer him. Touch me anywheres else,
but leave me easy in my stomick.
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