Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-04-06

y wish you wasn't Going Back
Just Wish You Wasn't, Miss Birdie"
so long I'll be mistaking the Times
building for tall pine when I get
home"
"Heigh-ho-such is life," said Mr..
Proxies, "such is life!"
"Ain't 1t sol"
I'VE meet and we pass on-we meet
and we pass on. Monday morning,
little sister, III be waking up to the
six O'Clock chimes of the First Pres
byterian and the growing of Bantam
Jimmie"
II got it over them both with a six
ty-cent alarm clock and a ash can
symphony"
"And I'll lay there listening to old
Mary unlock the summer kitchen and
after hear her turning the windlass
to hoist the water from the well I'll
be gettin' up myself and"
II know the feelin'."
and getting down to unlock the
store just like there wasn't no little
sister had come and sneaked into my
heart out here in the pines"
"And I'll be trailin' my black char
meuse over green velvet carpet and
between sales swappin' manicures
with the girls and daring Eddie the
stock boy to wriggle his ears for u.s."
Il wish you wasn't going back-I
just wish you wasn't, Miss Birdie"
81 got the two best reasons a girl
could have. A dollar-sixty and a rail-
road ticket in my pocketbook and the
Horse Show advance display opening
Monday morning, with me on the job
selling the eight-hundred-dollar cloth
of gold over Maisie's head or knowing
the reason why not"
IL just think we ought-ought to
keep you out here with us, little
Birdie
Gee, wouldn't that be a cinch."
"We amt going to let you go, neither
that's all there is to it."
"That's right, tease me along"
eff wasn't afraid you'd break your
sides laffing, I'd say there just
couldn't be finer sight than you in
in white dress and no hat walking
up High street about closing time, the
way they do in our town on fine eve
nings. You in white dress and no
hat comm down to meet-meet-"
See"
"You won't believe it, little Birdie,
but way down underneath the city l
think you got just little Miami in
your makeup, do"
81 amt so stuck on the city; it's
just stuck on me, like sticking plaster
Sometimes II hate it,
81 don't want you to go back there to
stay, Birdie. I'm comm on my Sep
tember trip and bring you back home
with me, that's what 1 am. amt 60
ing to let the city get its big sooty
hands on you again, that's what amt.
Little sister, you know what What
l."
Mr.. Proxies leaned toward Miss
| Fink SO that his shirt front bulged
outward with the swell of a pouter
pigeon. His heart blood buzzed in his
brain-danced behind his eyes and
confused his vision.
"Birdie, ="
o-three-four-five
seven-eight-nin Hur-
rah Hurrah!"
Its the bust up, dearie. l gotta
! gotta go pass the lovin' cup, little
Birdie. You just-just wait for me,
want to Say-I-"
"Hurrah-hurrah-th cup! ! |"
"Comin- here for me
little sister. COMM, boys, comm"
Almost simultaneously Mr.. Gilly
turned the corner Of the ell, so slim
so svelte, that he was black sill
Aouette against black; disembodied
hands and face and shirt front float
Ing in an aura of bay rum.
"Birdie-that you? Gee, where you
been hiding yourself? I've been on a
regular man hunt since came up from
the station. You amt sick, are you,
sitting out here alone with the high
priest stuff going on inside"
"Gilly"
THAT'S me!'
"Whatta you know about that ?
you're whole day ahead of yourself"
Chicago didn't have no strings on
my heart-kiddo!"
"FreShie -
"Well, kiddo-guess
She leaned forward, her hair like
ripe corn in starlight.
Gee, Gilly, you landed itw
"Forty week and three shifts,
Morning Glory-ain't bad for your
Uncle Fuller, is it? If I'd a hit old
Kelly for fifty he'd come over with 1t,
tOo-fOrty a week and morning duty
--eh kiddo?"
"It's swell, Gilly-iust grand!"
He rubbed his palms together as II
they were fabricated with the sweet
oil of success, twirled thrice on his
heels and swung himself perilously
atop the veranda rail, his legs twined
through the palings and lettering back
| and forward to maintain balance.
Its all in KNOWN how, kiddo-l
| knew what I was doing when / took
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