The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-06-08

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"Well, look who's here! Wen,
Proxies, what have you got to say for
yourself? Why amt you out with the
sailing party? Say, amt you the
greatest fellow for lodging the ladies"
Mr.. Proxies loitered up to the desk,
planted an elbow on the counter and
flung one knee across the other so
that he leaned at an Oblique. An inch
cone of ashes trembled and tumbled
from his cigar down his waistcoat.
Il leave them things to the young
ones, Gilly. What's an old one like me
doing off on a party with marriedS and
a bunch of striplings? l been out hit
tin new trail through the pines that
I'll bet the original Indians hereabouts
amt too familiar with"
You ought to be able to find better
than scenery for company around here.
Proxies, get acquainted with Miss Fink,
little girl from the big town."
"How-do-do."
How -do-do."
"Gowann, get acquainted and show
each other a good time. Proxies is the
Grand Mogul of Miami on the Miami,
Birdie, and the Heap Big Chief of the
Southwest Order Of the Well Fed
Bison"
Quit calm me names, Gilly."
"He says Miami on the Miami's got
! the Moo York waterfront run clear off
the picture postcards and that the
only and original hayseeds are grown
between Battery and the Bronx. Get
together, you two, and femme referee
the game"
earrings against her white neck,
showed the CLEAN of her teeth behind
her lips and raised her narrow Shout
ders, with the open-work blouse show
ing the mystery Of pink ribbon
through it.
"How-do-do, Mr.. Proxies; what I'm
trying to get at is this: if you're all
the things he says you are, what amt
your"
Mr.. Proxies extended a large, warm
hand; his sand-colOred mustache re-
treated bit to reveal the damaging
gold evidence Of small town dentistry.
Il amt noticed you around here
before, Miss Fink"
He's stringing you, Queenie. For
all he knows you might have been at
the door to welcome him when he
came last week. He's got about as
much interest in skirts as l have in
Miami on the Miami"
IF this young lady had been around
here, I'd have seen her all right"
you can't jolly her, Prokes-she
comes from the town where they hand
it out like trading stamps. This hand
some young man to my right, Queenie,
is as afraid of skirts as l am of hay
ing to spend another summer west Of
Jersey"
Don't you believe it, Miss Fink. A
fellow like me, when he gets to be fair,
fat and nearly forty, knows it's time
to take the flower out of his button
hole"
Not if it's a bachelor button"
quoth Mr.. Gilly, slapsticking repartee
a merciless whack.
IF I thought l stood a show next to
my slick young friend here, maybe I'd
shake the road dust of Miami out Of
my eyes, answer hair restoring ad
vertisement, climb into a narrOwsh
6oroI ri q
flexible bamboo cane down Broadway
myself"
Miss Fink glanced at Mr.. Proxies
with the upward sweetness Of Fra
Lippo Lippi virgin.
Say, maybe you're right about the
original hay meadows laying between
Thirty-fourth and Forty-second
streets; but, honest, Mr.. Proxies
honest, what is Miami, a breakfast
food or a diseaseY
Mr.. Gilly clapped his hand on his
polished tkatch of black hair and
leaned across the counter with his ell
bows planted on the register book.
"That's right go to it ~
Miami, Miss Fink amt one of the
breakfast foods that helped make the
Broadway electric sign famous; it
amt even an expensive disease like ap-
pendicitis or motoritis; it's a burg,
Miss Fink, that amt even got a dot
after it on the map"
Thanks"
"a burg with grass growing be-
tween the bricks and story-and-a-half
cottages with pointy roofs like the toy
houses they manufacture in the Cis-
alpian Alps"
"Hear-hear" cried Mr.. Gilly, his
mouth turned upward in a crescent.
Every back porch in our town is
used for the two and sole purposes Of
supportin' wistaria vines and coolln'
the famous pies that mother used to
make-no vaudeville rural sketch is
complete without the cOtton-back satin
finish wistaria vine or the papier
mache tree stump, center left"
mo, we amt got a swimmin' hole,
Miss Fink, the"
/ "That's RIGHT. kooD ~ dorI, ~