News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-16
FROM "MONTPEELYUR"
Legislation and Legislators as
Viewed By Our Old Friend
"rete" hopkins

| DEERE JIM
Didn't rite last weke. Yer see it hap.
ened this way, Bill trasy wuz heer frun1
jonsun, kinder lukin ter git er raze in hi2
pay long with Their rest ov them Staets
turneys. Bill sed az how thay left it awl
ter him an he he'd set Their thing up SO
thay kud'nt help but win. So he 'vited
up ter stay ovur Sundy with him. Wa'aI,
| went. Bills wief want ter hoam, an /
didn't fele like ritein. Bill IL err crate
feller-let Bill tell it. Cess he wuz kinder
wurried fur fere hiz wief wud run agin
agin him last fall. Bill SEE Garry Nashun
hain't gut ennything en- bur-
Rolf series, clare Powell, frank Tomsun,
an Dave Portur he'd err conference heer
t'other mite 1t muster bin kwite ifnpor.
,tant fer they didn's git thru till mere
mornin.
Seen Chansy brownell frum Berlintun
cummin in on ther frame. Chansy wuz err
cryin, with Their teres runnin' down biz
chekes as fast ez jon Southwik kud wipe
'em erway Tllot sum NV hiz mere relli-
tvs must he ded. "Wut's Their matter?"
SEE ter Chausy, kinder simpythizin lick
cWa'al," SEE Chansy, Tine felein ser bad
becoz Bill MakkiIlup didn't git 'lected
mayer. He vuz goin' fer fix things rite
fer my 'lectrik rode; and now We gut ter
go inter bankrunsy."1- Cess them voters
up ter Mart Viluses town must be gittin
onter C. p. Smif's kombernashun. Aftur
turnin down Bill and littul Levi, all in
wun yere, they otter hev meddel frum
kongrcss.
Oh, JIM We've bin havn heluva-
tierl heer. Their ole gard amt plesed with
Their gunner. He amt ser kind an jentle
az thay thot Fer item thay didn't kno
jest wit ter du. Then Stod bates re-
kruted galyunt army konsistn ov him
self az field marshul an jenrul Kady ov
Middelbu:y, hoo haz distinguished SER
vus badje fer servus in Their ole gard, an
tergether they made ern attack on Their
dugout ware Sunny Jim hez hiz hedkwar-
ters. Thay gut in past ther wire 'tangul-
ments an 'sprized Julia Wilkox an Their
gunner plannin' er flank movement with
Bill holden frum Massachusetts,. Lukin'
up an seem the ennimy rite in frunt ov
him, Sunny Jim kalled fer endorsements
an in kun Jim latin an Charley forbes.
Their gunner he'd left fred Kressy ter gard
5her dore sost Stod kudn't git in sudden
lex, but fred bein def didn't here Stools
army wen it narcht past Sirrender,"
'ed Stod. II wunt," SEE the gunner.
Whit hev yer bin sayin bout me?" SEE
5tod. I've bin asayir' tibet yu've bilt
hem good rodes in Orleens kounty jest ter
,iv ther rum runners good start ter git
1oawn thru Their staet, sed the gunner,
Yu think yu want or good rode SO st yu
in git inter Kanady jest ez wi wanter, an
lot Civ US ennything," "Yu doant halter
ave good rodes in Sdringfeel,' SEE Stod,
yu'ye gut enuff stills so'syer don't halter =
o inter Kanady, yu an herb Blanchard"
III Their item twas gitten hotter an Stod
'uz edjin'a littul closter, All ov a suddin
her gunner startid ink baraje, an Stod
snt jentul Kady ter bring up hiz reserves,
onsistin ov Charley Gaitz an Kurt Emry.
lady kudn't find EN-. Yu see whiel thay
'uz waten fer orders thay seen Alum
letchur awalkin up and doan ther korri-
or. Helen blazes," sed Kurt, don't
no hoo she IL" But thet's wat he sed,
nd then he an Gaitz run in thru Their |
aten room an doan stares. Thay he'd
I'd sum 'speriunce with Fletchur. Thare
uz nuthin fer Stod ter du but bette re-
etc.
Luks zif we he'd sum gunner aftur all.
Yures truley, I
PETER HOPKINS.
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