The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-12
CHAPTER VII.
The League Of Relation.

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DEAR AND ETC. JOSEPH:
Wen. Joa no doubt you win gasp
with surpriso when you see am
wrtffu' This IN my cellar. but I am
not down there for the reasons that
you prob1y think. which is that
have gone 70 work and laid IN a
stock Of the Kelley Cure antidote
since prohibition become the latest
stats To jotn the union.
Tho real reason thar 7 arm wrft.
ing this letter down In the Cellar
amongst the coal and bottles Of
grape Juice with the conventional
three raisins and yea~t cake INSIDE
OF them. Is because l have now be-
come valet 10 my furnace.
This forty dollar the week chauf.
feur which we need the same way I
need n third ear. claims he was hired
as a engineer and not as a fireman.
and II he wanted 10 shovel coal for a
Twin he never would OF wasted his
time goin' 10 night school. and the
two maids simply give vent TO hys.
tericaily laughter when I gently In.
uuircd would they look after the
furnace.
So bein' faced with a mutiny on all
sides, Joe. with the winter In the
fun sway and II bein' as hard 10 get
help here as II would be 70 get frost
bitten in Southern Hades. they ~
nothin' left for me 10 do but TO 20
down in the cellar several times a
day and mingle with the ashes and
the etc
Well. 10 get way from all this.
Xmas has came and went Joe. and
II has left me as usually without the
price OF a suuburn in the sara
Desert It's good thing that the
Yuieude In an settled in one day
and amt n Worlds Series. or
would step right from the festiveiy
board into the poorhoush. A. IL is.
will be In hook for about six
months payin' instaIlmcnt collectors
for the various gifts ! lavished on
my so called friends and my un.
doubtcdly wife and family.
All | got back for my Investment
was belt from PIN Bloom which
looks suspiciousiy like the one I gave
him last Xmas with the buckle
shined up. and wish now I had
marked II last year. They was also
four ties come by the via OF the
mail and II | ever get crazy enough
10 wear any one OF 'em | win have
to put DINNERS on IL or the public
win 20 blind. got at the least 200
a IL xah l--s
You Jovial Xmas and A Elegant
New Years" and which don't mean
nothin'. because the only guy which
ever got anything by the via OF wish
In was n young Teller by the name
OF. Aladdin.
joe. ] give Jeanne, for the cx-
ample. diamond breach pin which
every stone in IL IL no fun OF fire
and life you could take Il in n dark
room and read with II. not that we
have to. and in return she give me a
china set OF dishes to 20 in the show
case which adorns the diner of our
mutual castle. win no doubt have
hot of rare sport these long winter
nights playin' house with them
dishes and ! expect the doh which
goes with the set TO arrive at any
minute.
However Joe. they was one Xmas
present I got from my beautifully
wife which | will recall for some
| time. as IL come near havin the both
or us make the acquaintance of the
divorce lawyers. thing which I
have always try to avoid. This gift
was delivered a coupla weeks before
Xmas and was imported from
France and was In the shape Of
Jeanne's family on her mothers and
fathers side.
Joe, one mornin' I was peacefully
dreamin' of the various things a
successfully movin' picture hero LIE
me will select to dream Of and was
just In the midst OF sternly wavin'
aside the oharminly princess which
craved to wed me. the while 70.
markin' like they did in the time OF
I.ooey the ~. what tho no. my
lady. DDS blood. s'death and whoops