The sun., 1918-12-15

he said quite calm well my boy mr. Hoover
is some pitcher he puts EN- over the Plate
every time but, he is not in the class with
you he does not, bean the batter. And |
guess said he mr Hoover would stand for
this because, we raised this dinner pretty
near all ourselves.
Well Uncle Bill that's fact for, we had
one Of our own chickens, it was big NOsey
which, we called him that because, he was
all ways poking his head threw the wire
and we had potatos and other vegetables
from our own war garden and o Joy We
had, PUNKIN PIE which was made
out Of punkin l raised my self Before
long We shan eat Kaiser, Hindenburg,
Ludendorf, Trpih and Bernstorff which
are other ROSTERS which expect to be
fed up and do nothing but torment the
life ont of, every body else in the yard
So we had a very Acceptable meal
though, Mother dident care to eat any of
Nosey she said, it was to much like Cana
bles she had brought him up from early
est childhood and he was, to her like / Of
the Famaly. But Coppral Kent he sure
did go to it and, never did I sec a man
treat him self better yond of thought, he
was not company at all. l was rather,
disappointed to see him behave so nat
tural when being entertained but. at least
some got away from him and had the
neck which, | was glad Nosey had divvel-
Topped by stretching it so much it was
exstreamly large and musskuler. Nosey
wade 5 three quarters ID stripped. 1t
pays to buy big breed foul
Well Uncle Bill the evening past very
pleasant with few insadents of excitement
such as, Tom spilled his whole platefull of
dinner and Phil fell fast asleep at the
table which, the Corpril said was mixing
the pleasures of life and, Harry tryed TO
get up an argewment with me about if
snake bit a man in the head would you
tye bandage round his neck to stop cir
cleation but, was not to be inviggled
into any thing that might make Dad in
tcrupt my attack ON the powltry trenches
and, I was just fairly knocking the stuff
fling out Of the enemy. Dad has a great
way of settling argewments by sending
fellow to his room for little quiet roomi-
nation as he calls it and, he does not all
ways get the right one of us but, you
better not try to tell him so. I have
noticed that grown folks prefer to stand
pat when they've made mistake with
children than, to own up and square up.
Which if not respectful is, certainly true.
So Duke he tells US some stories of the
war and, Mother plays some old songs
which, We all sang not together very good
but, satisfactorily strong which is what
counts and what do you think Uncle Bill,
Dad cuts loose with lot of funny stuff
/ never knew he had in his bag of tricks.
and he had us all roaring especially, my
Soldier
SO, l got feeling sort of cutuppy as,
every body seemed for once all in good
humer at the same time and, said Duke
I wish, you was related to me- Why
says he that would, be rather jolly. But
he resumed You have plenty Of brothers
Yes l said but, none of them are, sol
der. Well he came back your uncle,
which is you Uncle Bill is one isn't he.
So said yes he is but, 1 don't mean rel
lated that way I mean a Relative by mar
rage which, you and Aunt Mary
No sooneY had begun to utter this per
fectly innacent and sensible remark when
Aunt Mary she jumped up and, her cheeks
were like red hot poker before you make
whole with it in some old bored the
folks are going to set a high value on
when they find you have board it and she
screamed yes fairly screamed Samuel
Jones meaning Dad are you never going
to. teach that boy, come on politeness.
And even the Copral got sort of blushfull
while, Dad he seemed angry on the out
side but not however all the way threw
like a man who has to- act SO as not to
attend his wife in dpllacafe Sjfratiou