The Holbrook news., 1919-02-14
SOphOcles Shows Renewed
 Interest in Oil Field

Mike'n me hey bin all fused up after hernin' thet tn big companies are comin' in to this field, cause it's a mortol cinch they ain't a comin' in onuess they's pretty sure. But as long as they air reely comin' in there's nothin' to it. Ginerally tn big fellers is like Mike wuz onct when he wuz a kid an he fingered on swipin' the ice creme where they wuz a givin' a party an left his name off tn list. Mike snuck around and found tn freezer all full O GUS tard an cud made off with it, but he sez to hisself "As long as Pm gonna git it anyway, l might as well leave it till sum- body else freezes it, so he waits till a couple uv weak-chinned kids got palpitation O tn heart turnin' the crank and got the creme all froze, and then Mike he snuck in and cops it. He let sumbody else git it redy to eat before he tux it and thet's tll' way tn big fellers ginerally does. But when they freezes 1t theirselves, as yu might say nothin' else for a body to do but git in an git in quick-that's us.
 Wal Mike an me we wett to tn bank yesterday an we draws a considerable amount O checks cause we bought stock in every company what's doin' bizziness in this here field. Mike wuz kinda parshial to one O them and I was little parshial to anuther, but between us we grabbed off enuf stock to keep us in four-bit cegars and front seat at tn oprie tn rest O our lives when they gifts tn 'oil in HoIbrook, which they sure is eoin' to do. Mike he laid awake last nite maxim all kinda plans on what he's gonna do with his coin. As nere as I recommem- Der, amung other things, the first thing he is a gonna do is to hire manicure girl to hold his hand an fix up them nails what he's been a stockin' against quartz lodges fer the past twen- ty years. Says she's gotta be a blond, but I argified that a bru- nette wuz tn best. Next thing he's gonna do is git a lemonsine with nigger chaffer an he's gonna buy a ten-acre lot fur our old Nevada friend "Curley" with two kids follerin around all day, one with a piller and one with a bone. As fer me-I'm gonna spend my money as an eddicated man wud. I'm gonna build a library fer Holbrook an hey my name carved on tn front porch. What they needs is a library in every town. I've bin in many a place when man wants to see a Police Gazette or tn sportin' news, there ain't no chance at all. Course I allus reads Ibsen an Brownin', an Isaac Walton just as I allers goes to see Sir Beerbomb Tree, Mable Normand an Charlie Chaplin in tn shows -nothin' is too high-brow fer me, but a feller's got to keep up with tn times an rede tn sportin' papers just t keep up on tn gineral knowledge O tn times.
 I wuz down to th's track tn other day when a train pulls in an sidetracks a car loaded to tn gunnals with a rig an equip ment fer a new well thet's to be started-an' Pm tellin' yu that it sure looked good an looks like Dizziness. An when I seen six teens a startin' to haul it out to tn field I sez to Mike, sezzi, '"Thet feller ain't a gonna let no grass grow under his feet tn way he's starting in an he must | be plumb enthusiastic tn move he's gittin 'on." Mike got so en- unused that he hopped one O tn | wagons this mornin' an rides out to tn field some eighteen miles just to be on tn ground.
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