The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-04-18

remember y0urnflk when you woS kiu
together back In your own mother
time. that there wasn't = boy In Spar
tan. from the Lowneys down. VA
starchier Of a sunday than stesey
or"
Yes. yes. Liddy."
"Raised him and fed him hy piaii
Ing wire petfings when ought 10 bee
playing dolls. fryin' and siavln' q
keep that boy out OF the Shelter home
Dent tell me sister don't know
"Liddy. Liddy, Steve amt forgot al
you done for him"
1T amt fhati He's paid IL back {
thousand times. working himself NJ
to assistant foreman at the Works
and as good brother as comes and
all. but don't say don't know him
Annie. anybody that's nursed boy
from measles TO marriage like have
him."
"Buf. Liddy--
That's why I know what I'm talk
ing about when I say he Amt drunk
ard In the bones. Steve Amt. His
father before him went through few
had years just like steve. and after
his pledge lived In Temperance tin
he died in old age. II amt In his
bones. Annie; us only a tickling In
the palate"
That's what thought. Liddy. those
three years while his breath was as
sweet as our haby's. but"
Its the pledge that'll do the work
now. Anne
-He--he won't listenw
Hes God-fearing man. Annie.
like his father before him. II you
can only get him to take the pledge.
now that ne feels himself slIppIn'
back. II you only can'"
.oh, God, nothing counts"
"sh-hl / tell you It's just the hole
In his heart that drove him home that
way last night"
And don't forget the night before.
and the night before that Three run
min nights,'
Its drop TO warm him. Annie.
before he comes home these first
nights 10 find his little one not here.
Just drop to warm him"
And what about met What about
met DO need a drop TO warm me for
sitting here day in and day out. my
baby gomez Do II
1T was always a sin before the
Lord ! used TO say. a man should
crowd the whole world out OF his
heart over a child. and his being taken
this way proves II. II was a sin before
the Lord how he banked on that child
running II with too much love. No
good can cGme OF 1t, I always said.
and it's hard TO live to see the day
how right was"
'There-there just never was
father and baby Ike them together,
LIddy. You know for yourself there
just-never--waslT
Nov. now. dearie."
"And how in used TO crawl on
all fours til his big bones ached.
Liddy, acting horsie for the boy TO ride
him--lor hours. Llddy. tin used TO
get scared the baby wouldn't sleep
from excitement. and grab him up and
on his tired old back"
that's just what I'm saying to you.
Annie; It's these evenings with his
baby gone have drove him back bit.
The thirst amt In his bones. tell you;
It's only he's low. and when big mans
low he"
mo. no. Liddy. tell you he's got
the taste Of II on his tongue and the
burn OF 1t on his insides again after
these three years. He says himself
the burn Is like pain that don't hurt
he gets that way. Says
II himself when the shame is on him.
and-and he tries toto make 1t up
TO me,7
Its one drop too much can send
Steve of. Annie. Two glasses make !
him silly where another can carry six |
md you know II. Steve never got
rough from II in his life; I've seen him
silly. but"
God, I'd rather he came home
beating me than-than the silly way
be does when he's-that way. God,
when he--gets sllly."
But
Il tell you It's his Stiffness, Liddy.
and the way he gets talking TO him
self scares me more than his getting
rough would, You remember that
night he took all that cider over at
Joe's halloween. Liddy. and how l
ran over TO you clear across the rail-
road tracks when, he came home talk
ing to himself and tryin' to-"
Now, now, Annie, that's an four
years passed and"
Passed, Like a fash when seen
him come through the kitchen door
Ihese last three nights, his eyes all
red; like fash. tell you. it comes
back to me-"
annie, Annie. it1l come all right, l
tell you. Wasn't l the one predicted
L was the child being born would get
him intemperance. Annie. and didn't
~ For them three years wasn't his
breath as sweet as hay. and didn't I
predict lit Didn't II You was happy
hem three years. Annie. and"
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