The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-17
The Diary of a Young RuMan.

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July 12-Writing diaries is something II
amt got much time to do now but dad be says
he needs little help and he says besides folks
had rather read my diaries than his SO s'pose
I'll have to help him out again. Well, got up
this morning not long after dad did. He al
ways gets up first and puts on the teakettle
and shaves and fixes the coffee n then he
comes in and says to mother, Well, you big fat
stiff, are you going to sleep all day, when do
you s'pose I'll get to work il you don't get up
and get on the job, and mother she makes
faces at him and gets up and gets breakfast
and we eat and then he runs for the car, and
that's how it was this morning.
After awhile went over to the boys camp
and played and then Sister and me went on
the car down town to the Fort Armstrong to
see Jackie Coogan. Jackie was good all right.
He was asleep under q barrel and his doggie
was, too, and the pliceman couldn't see EN-
but the doggie kept wagging his tail and hit
ting the p'liceman on the foot and then the
pliceman raised up the barrel and found em.
And he shook Jackie Coogan and Jackie Coogan
woke up and the p'liceman took him by the
hand and they went to where they was a great
big children and Jackie Coogan went to bed
and then Jackie CoOgan and a little niger boy
got up to say their prayers and then they went
to bed and Jackie Coogan put shoe white ON
the little niger boys face and his mother
and daddy come and washed it OF. Jackie
Coogan's daddy was asleep or something and
Jackie Coogan shook him and then he got up
and shook Jackie Coogan and Jackie Coogan
got behind chair and then the p'liceman come
and he got knocked down and he got up and
he got knocked down again and he wasn't
hurt and then Jackie Coogan reached around
and got tho hand chain and give it to the
pliceman and he put it on Jackie Coogan's
daddy's hands. And then there was meeting
and after that was all and then they had the
funnies.
and then we all eat and after awhile everybody
went to bed.
July 13-I got up about the same time this
morning as l did yesterday morning and
guess dad said about the same things to mother
! ne did yesterday. 'cepting maybe he said more
Pretty soon went over to the boys camp
again like do every day and was playing
the graphophone and laid . record down on
the floor and Pat come In and he stepped on
it and broke it and / guess maybe he's pretty
mad at me cause he did. Mother said should
ought to know better than put records on the
floor. but where could put the record when
was sitting on the floor, couldn't reach up
to the table. Gee whiz! But guess Pat is
mad at me- all right but maybe he won't be
after awhile
Mother and Sister and me We got ON the
car after awhile and went way over to Moline
where lady that dad calls Smitty lives and
she's got the cutest little baby boy. He's fat
n everything and he laughs awful hard We
was going to stay there for dinner and then
got kind OF sick and when dad got there about
s o'clock l was feeling pretty bad 80 laid
down on the couch awhile and then 1 got up
to eat and drank some milk and didn't eat
much, ceptin' ! wanted Z piece of cake and
| then l laid down some more. There was a
pretty nice man there that dad called Whitsy.
guess he 10 Smitty's papa / don't mean he
is her daddy like daddy Is my daddy but like
daddy is mothers papa, he fixed me up on the
couch SO felt pretty good. But after awhile
! was sick at my stomach some more and gosh.
felt fierce and then mother said we bettsr so
home and We. went down and got on the car
and felt better and after awhile We got ont
to the camp again and went right to bed.
| Dad he had lemon pie that Mra Marshall
give him, he said. and he had been carrying
IL around to Smittys and every place and when
they got home Sister and mother and him
thought they'd eat piscs, 10 they did. but !
didn't want any, or anything.
July I'll was still in bed this morning and
heard mother say. Oh, for heavens sakes. M
when l coma out on the back porch there m
that nice lemon pie just splattered all over IN
4 floor. Mother had went to take It ont Of 81 r.
fcebox and she said 1t just jumped right ont n
her hands and turned over and smeared mn
the floor. Mother said she had notion to crv
'cause she intended to eat piece for hresI.
messed mp something nercs. 90 she had h
scrape II mp and throw It away. Dad didn't =,
anything bat he looked ut mother and su...
maybe he vas thinking. Then he went 10 vnrr
bet be was sore. though.
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dren. ran away with IN 1S-year-old mi tall,
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