Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-15

Yestidday wen came home frum
skool ma was waiting for me. sayln
Benny wunt you to go an errand and
i sed, Wen? and ma sed, Imeeditly.
wunt you to take my dressmakins
model to the hardware store and have
the base fixedsft wont stand up strate
Meening the wire thing In the shape OF
a lady that ma uses to try dresses and
things on, and | sed, Aw gosh. q. ma,
do han to wawk down the. street with
that thing. G WIZ, ma, don't wunt to
do that.
The quicker you start the quicker
you'll get It over with. sed ma. Wich
/ tried to argue some more about It.
but ma wouldent argue, and i started
to carry the dressmaking model to the
hardware store. and who was up In the
next block but a lot of the fellows and
Mary Watkins, me thinking, Darn It,
aw @. And ! thawt, o well. Ill carry II
rite pass them as IL + was use to Z 1t,
any maybe they wont say enything
Wich l started to do, ony insted
OF not Saying enything, they all sed
sunhthing. Jest to show on in frunt
Of Mary Watkins, Pubs Simkins say
ing, Look who Bennys got with him.
Bennys got new gerl
Whose your friend, Benny! sed Sid
Hunt.
Wy don't you interdoose us. Ben
ny? sed Ed Wernick. Jest showing
OF in frunt of Mary Watkins and
Mary Watkins started to giggeL
and / kepp on Wawking pass look
ing dignifed with the dressmaking
model, thinking, G, don't wunt to
so back agen with it, maybe the man
will send 1t back. WITCH wen I got
to the hardware store / asked him,
saying, Can you send it, mister. l
ony live blocks frum heer.
III Ill have 1t fixed in half a minnit, sed
Che man. Being q long man with
glasses, and sed, / ony live blocks
away. '.H
So you told me, sed the man,
and I sed, Well can't you send it?
and he sed, Watts all the rush, cant
You waite minnit? and l sed, Well,
I'm in pritty big Of a hurry. and ne
sed, Wat about? Me not saying eny-
thing on account of not thinking OF
enthing to say, and ] waited till he
fixed it, charging Is sents. and then
4 blocks out of my way so would
net han to pass the fellows agen. no
body saying enything exsept Flat
fot the cop. him saying, Watts you
doing, kid, taking your grandmother
out for wawk? ~.
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1t was Nora's day off yestiday and
ma got suppir reddy herself, being
some kiDd of stew with SO meny
Vegetables in 1t you couldent hardly
find the meet, and after suppir sed.
Do you wunt me to carry the dishes
out into the kitchen for you, ma?
Well. You mite be big help if>you
dident drop eny, sed ma.
/ wont drop eny, ma, if eny start to
drop l wont let them, sed.
And 1 started to carry them out in
the kitchen and ma started to wash
them, and some of them tried to drop
and dident leeve them. and wen they
was about half out sed, amt
dropped q single one yet, ma.
You better mock on wood, sed ma.
.Meening I mite drop some yet, and
sed, if carry all the rest of them out
without dropping even one. will you
give me cents, ma?
Iii see, sed ma. Meening proberly,
and jest then cup dropped on the
floor. -
Watts that! sed ma out in the kit
chin. and sed, 1t was ony a cup, ma,
1t dident- even brake.
oil ha
my goodniss grayshiss, sed ma. WITCH
jest then the same cup dropped agen,
and quick sed, Its all rite. ma, its
ony the same cup.
Did 1t brake? sed ma.
No nam, sed, and ma sed, Wen
wy cant you be, carfill? 49,.
I can. sed. And carried about 4
more out without eny dropping and
then plate dropped, ma saying. For
goodniss sakes, watts that?
Ony a plate, ma, it hardly broak. I
sed.
, It did wat? sed ma. and I sed,. 1t
ony broak in 4 pieces.
0 how fortunate. don't you dare
toutch another single thing, Sed ma.
and I sed Well gosh, G. ma, I've saw
luluSS uIdhS al, eo LaIS poSSSS wv
couldent hardly count them.
You're very wonderful, sed ma.
.Meening l wasent. And went out
without mentioning the 2 sents agen.
Pop came home today and started to
hang up his hat and coat, and sed'
pop? ....-. r.
You serteny are the original pop
berd, sed pop. Meaning I'm always
saying pop, and sed, Do you know
mulch about joggriffy, pop! ,
., L Suppose ] could tell an equator
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