The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-11
The Diary of Young Ruffan.

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| Oct 6-Ffrst thing when 1 got up this
morning dad says young man I'm goin' to be
busy the dickens from now on and it's up
to you to help fill my colyum. Gee, if Is a
! big man / wouldn't ask no little boy to do my
work for me- Dad says don't you like to get
your name in the paper, most folks do and
says no, and why don't you write pome bout
me and Billy fghtin'? And then he says the
| inexorable fight of time, my son, precludes
| the possibility of any poetic panegyrlc from
your paters pen concerning youthful Damons
and Pythases. Gosh, spose he thinks it's
smart to say things like that don't know what
| it means, but mother says never mind if he
was as smart as he thinks he is maybe we
could at least buy ford and dad says we'll
we've already got the crank in the family. and
mother says oh, you make me tired and dad
says you better put on your chains, you're
skiddin' Gee, I wonder if all nQthers and
dads fight like that? Dad went work and
mother put new suit she just made me.
Then 1 went over the dump and sat down in
some oil and got my pants all black and mother
didn't like it and she told dad when he come
home but he didn't do anything about it, May
be he sat down in oil once when be was
little boy
Oct. Nothing much happened today ex-
cept that got dirty again. Dad says that amt
a happening it's just cinch. He went some
place tonight with Sister and mother and l
stayed home. He said he had to practice for
a show the Christian Endeavors Is going to
give at Franklin school Nov. 4. He says l
mustn't tell anybody about it because he'd feel
see him make fool of himself Then mother
says you must be embarrassed all the time
you're awake and dad says is that and moth
er says yes dearie. and dad says, we'll IL must
be very embarrassing for you, and mother says,
it is, dear, but try to hide it and dad says is
that so and that's all he said. Gee, they talk
funny sometimes.
Oct S-Dad went to work early this morn
ing and l didn't see him again all day or at
night either. Mother went downtown after him
III the afternoon and she didn't come back eitn
er and / didn't see them till in the morning.
But guess they went to Davenport and every
place. They bought me two pairs of the dan
diest ovaraIls you ever saw and Sister got
some gloves and dad got some socks that
month and mother says L shouldn't say what
she got. Dad says socks wasn't the only thing
he got though, and 1 asked him what else he
got and ne said he got cleaned.
He brought me home bird a stick that
flies when you swing it round and round. It's
broke now though. l asked dad to fix it and
he said never mind, sonny, it amt got anything
on me. But 1 want it fixed anyway. 1 heard
dad telling mother about friend of his at the
practice that said when they passed him some
nice doughnutS, l don't care for any more but
I'll take one home if you don't mind and then
the lady went and got sack and filled it and
gave it to him. Dad laughed and said Paul
Schubert thought that was pretty good and so
did he and then mother says, what's in that
sack on the icebox, and dad he grinned kind
of foolish and he says, that's another sack of
doughnuts Mrs. Seeburger sent home with me- |
They was awful good doughnuts, too. ct a |
lot of EN-
Oct 81 got up early this morning and
pretty soon dad and mother they got up too |
They said they couldn't sleep much after |
woke up 1 don't see why they want to Sleep |
don't l like to get up early. l went to |
Sunday school with Billy this morning and /
Sister she went over to Central. 1 bet she !
wanted to go over there to see Paul. Paul he |
used to be her beau. Not Paul Schubert but !
boy named Paul. Dad stayed home and |
cleaned out the basement. He worked like the |
dickens, he said. Then he went downtown in
the afternoon to watch the ball game and write
his cofyum and then he came home and we
had chicken for dinner and I had leg and |
Sister had a leg and I wanted another leg hut |
gee. they wasn't none lert, l ct a wing Dad
made me the cutest little kite tonight Won ever
saw. bet my dads the best kite maker in
the whole world He's going to make one for |
Billy, TOO. But ne says at that one kite prob
ably will keep two boys busy
TOTHER day when we used the exnres-
sion. pooled out las the sport writer's saw /
we must have erred According to our revered
Mas Service" bulletin on page one vester
eve, home runs are "polled"
1T seems fitting to say here thar an en-
thusiastic football fan called us last ,fah. -
say that The Argus put over the njftiast 80
of its career with its improyised "er5;ron
player recorufng the play between Indenand
ents and Staleys at Decatur. penu
But if they repeat the performance MA sb.u
insist that the mouthpiece of the megaphone no
padded De
TO the many contrihs who are eagerly
scanning Inls ooiyum to see their stun in print
poem four days ago We haven't had W." aSe q
to run q cnahce
season o'iu series this
Provided the Yankees will I;s.a,