The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31
The Diary of a Young RuMan.

the house gee, it looked funny. There wasn't
no curtains and no rugs on the floors and
pretty near everything was packed up cause
we're going to move to a notner house tomor-
row mosning. After breakfast dad and mother
made Sister and me get out and go to Sunday
school and | guess they stayed home and
worked some more.
| This afternoon Sister and Billy and me
went down to the house and looked
through it and 1 wanted Billy to know the way
so he could come and see me. Then we come
back and We all went to Bilys house for sup
per. Oh boy! Billy's mother sure had fine
| supper but she said 1 didn't eat much. We
had swell time playing in the house and we
did lots of things our dads told us to quit
doing and sometimes We quit. Billy fell down
awful hard and bumped his nose and it made
him cry, too We went home kind of early
cause We had to get up early in the morning.
March give all got out of bed real early
and when went to eat breakfast, gee. there
wasn't hardly any dishes to eat Mother
had EN- all packed up. There wasn't only one
dish she could find to eat fakes out of,
so dad eat some and then Sister washed the
dish and l eat some and then she washed it
again and she eat some and after awhile we
all had our breakfasts. Then pretty soon
great big truck come to take the furniture to
the new house and dad had to take OFF the cell
lar door to get the 'lectric washer out and it
was so heavy the men couldn't hardly lift it.
bet.I could of helped EN- if mother'd let me-
Mother said the men knew how to take
their time, they moved like they had balls and
chains on their feet. Dad and me- we went
down to the new house after awhile. We was
going the street but Mr.. Safer came
along and took us in his car and we got there
quick. Then dad built fire in the furnace
land then started to wait for the truck to
come. We waited and waited and waited and
waited and finally it did come and mother come
too, and the men started to carry the things
in the house. Gee, they moved awful slow, and
finally mother said to EN-, You fellows never
hurt yourselves by speeding, do you, and one
man said no, we're too heavy on our feet and
that's all he said.
Well, after awhile they got everything IN
and dad gave EN- a lot of money and he Qldn t
look like he was glad about il, either. After
[ they was gone he said he thought they was d
, pair of punks, whatever that is.
Theys great big funny building across the
street from our house and I asked mother what
was 1t and she said it was a house. and |
thought it a funny house with all those
big poles in front, and after awhile ask dad
was 1t a house and he said yes but it don't
look like house to me, and l told him maybe
they kept animals there in the lower part of it
ana maybe people lived up IN the top, and he
laughed and said probably the man that lived
there would be tickled pink if somebody told
him | said that.
We got woodshed or something out back
near the alley and l climbed all over if THIS
afternoon and once l opened the big gate that
climbed on and it got way open anu | couldn't
reach 1t and then l couldn't get down so Al
yelled for dad and he come and took me down
and bawled me out fierce While | was on the
fence after awhile lady come out to get in A
big automobile and she said, hello, when did
you move here, and 1 said TODAY and she
smiled, and then when she went awav she said
goodby and l said goodby
March 2S-Gee Sister got out of bed when
it wasn't hardly daylight and went to mothers
room and said, aren't you going to get up and
mother said, for heavens sake Dorothy what's
the matter with you, it's not O'Clock yet so
Sister come back TO bed, and then we got IN
after awhile After breakfast dad went to
work again and Sister went to school and
mother and me had to begin to straighten nm
the house
Some men come pretty soon to put down
some-l don't know what, you call it on the
kitchen floor. 1t amt a rug, anyway And I
talked to the men and they seemed to have lots
OF fun with me. They told me they knew n
mother little boy that was awful tough every
time he spit it turned into cement and that he
could just knock the stuffing out of me and
they was going to bring him down tomorrow
but L told EN- / bet he couldn't lick me. but
they SAID ne could. | told EN- l bet | knew
something they didn't. and they said what and
l SAID l knew mouse that carried fire on his
TAIL and set ire to folks and thew laughed Ioud
and said where did you get that stuff and 7
told 'em l got it out of the Book of Knowledge
and guess that kind of got their goats
1 wonder if that tough little boy will come
here tomorrow Heck, 1 bet he amt so tough
anyway
PRESS dispatch rectes that Mary Garden
in San Francisco. was stricken i'll Just before
she was to participate in The Love of Three
Kings"
Perhaps the three queens showed up
TOMORROW. glance at the Gregorian cal
endar informs us, is All Fools Day.
AND many persons will be fools all day.
r. E. MIG.