The Penn's Grove record., 1923-08-03
THE HIRED MAN GOES A COURT.
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Wen. Mr.. Editor, and dere pepuls,
eye will park myself in the Rocking
cheer an scibble a few lines an tell
you how mean some of my buddys
spent a very instructive hal day IN
your town a cortin. eye don't mean a
cortin gals. We was on a law SUIT the
kind where you hold up your hand an
saw youIe tell the truth the hole truth
an nothfn but the truth, an l dlndy
disremember whether that is all or
not.
An YOU hafto say youle do that
whether YOU kalkalate to tell II or
not, An speekin of the truth eye dldhI
neven no that the truth had any holes
in it but eye ges it haz especlally
when handled by a bunch of witnesses
and eve have heerd tell as how la"yeIs
can put holes in ennything, especially
hank accounts. but as eye was sayin
we went to Penns Grove partly oecuz
we never did much cortin nor hau
many other sucif pleasures. But lhostlS
to be painfully exact becuz we hau ~,
Yu see we wuz witnesses an had 10 Iel
what we wuz a goin to tell more VI
les. =
Wei when we got there we clumb a
hole LOT Of stares and there waz a hui
rom full of deterrent Colored lookln
folks. Sum long and others snort an
there waz one Teller there that haohI
got out of knee pants yet.
He loked awful big for a Boy ana
would YOU believe it that chap WaZ d
lawyer and when the cort got al SET
that is all fixed for biznes, that 1eiier
Just hopt Himself into a chalr an pc.
gun to ask questions of the Teller that
brung me to Penns Grove. Every
question that Teller asked was just a
little louder thar the one before IL
until finally hiz governor belt just
busted altogether an about all eye
got out of it waZ didja or dldntcha.
Well eye didn't go in for quite a spell
becuz there wasn't many seets. Besides
it just made one less corner 10 make IL
( annathing happened.
You see bein RACED in the Mountains
as eve was just naturally makes me
kinder timid an skitish, somethin
a ground hog.
An speakin of ground hogs reminds
me that the only ones eye have seen
in Jersey was in the meet shop an
when you want any of them you just
say hot dog.
We'll eye finally got my courase
wound up tite enough to get me into
the room where the rest of the folks
waz tina wasn't on the outside, eye
parked myself on the edge of a cheer
and sot thar a tryin to sWaller all the
evidence an listenin to the questions
that the Teller that had on boys pants
was askin. Well sir you wont believe
it but my mouth got SO saged an Jared
open that now it wont stay shut good
nintes especially when eye lay on my
back. but lets out kinder long drawn
walls an wakes me up. You don't sup
pose that its Emma thing serious do
you?
Well after things got quiet and he
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the governor of the job told me to put
up my rite hand which eye did or at
least eye ges eye did for eye had one
left. then a Teller with a quiet sum-
merry lookin face on him who looked
like he took things easy an most al
ways staid on the track begun to in
quire into my personal Affairs by askin
if eye waz livein emma place an what
eye dun an a lot more such truck
which didn't interest me emma.
Finally he up an sed cross eXamina-
ton whatever that is. Then the fell
Ter with boys pants on kinda shifted
uneasy like in his chair an with a look
as much as to say darnedif will Y
wont get information enuf to pay. He
sed that's all and say eye sort of liked
that fellers way of doing. Eye like to
be took at my face value an not have
some Teller a pryin around to see what
is behind my windows for the chances
are if you go to pullin a Teller to
pieces to see what hees made of or
you want to git him back together rite
again, but will have a fue wheels left.
As eye was sayin just as eye was
expectin him to bite off some big
chunks from his stock of nolage an
hand them to me with a roar like a
houn dog chasin cats he just sed that's
all and turned me down.
Eye have heered tell as how a Teller
is liable to loose friends in a law suite
but as eye didn't ave emma to loose
eye wasn't afraid of loosin emma but
howunsoever speakin of law suites
makes cool chills run up a fellers
spine for fere when the c%ritter was
dun with he wouldn't have enn suit
or emma thing else. After all there is
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