The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10

not So pretty, but ehust as smiley an uggied. An on top O one O them buses-well, live young feller he could get lot for dime when the moon she's shining. Effer try it?"
 "Nix. You cut out them pers'nal questions. Youll>wanna know my age mex"
 Your age is A. K. with me. But what good it gets me? On them buses them seats is chust big enough for two if they're squeeze close, an'-".
 "Oh Tight. Come down off O the top O the bus, bus--low bridge! This sounds like jealous play. You been readin' somethin'7-if you wanna intrest female give her some other frail to worry about"
 Could be? We'll, this here Minnie. she's about so high an, oh, lady-in bathin' suit she is sure the rabbits left hind foots When she smiles"
 Another crack about that 'bowlegged bedsheet burner an I'll knock you loose from that synthetic tie what you got hooked on that near-gold collar button. I don hear all the ghastly details about your wild life with flat-wash queens"
 Maybe you're too young. Mssus Eff'lyn. ' woudn' told you al-only the kindergarten part. You see"
 q see you brung me fowers-an' candy Well, I guess they ain't in so high an mighty"
 "Oh-yes, I'm in Huff by you sure. But you aim supstanchial. cat he could be off his noodles ofer queen, but, anyways, he goes out nights with a nice kittyV chust the same. Meow; meow-ww-w."
 "Jus' femme tell you oncet more. If I run into you tomcattn' off the reservation I'll wreck all O your nine lives with one sock. You go an take poor lil katy out, you heartless, smalI-tlme bus-top. boardin house sheik you, an chop out this cavort- in with laundry-alley stray cats"
 Thanks for the suchestion, Mssus Effyn. But I'm gamblin' man an hound with the wimmins now. Katys they don click by me-Tm a spoiled child what crafes a lot from speed, attention an what goes with 1t trala giff mine regards your boy friend, that Stevens see you on the drive-Ill look down on you from the bus" f
 "You do, an I'll chuck monkey-wrench up at you an your venus. O the suds"
 "But-why? Aint I'm nice by you? Don't I'm bring you loyiR' presents? Don't you're stuck on a rich hn-wamp what he's got a mustaehe like Charlie Chapellin an disgusted eggspFsssion like he's tired from life? so if wanna make moon shine monkeyshines with nice cutie what she thinks I'm all to the horseFadish--chust what is the complaints?"
 dill, you was born that way an no amount O met opolitan culcherl ever eivilize it oIt O you You need mother wife, a cop lawyer an a trustee to form circle around you, an then you'll probly be gyppsd, trimmed an tooken. An 1t breaks my heart to you toss yourself to them hallroom hyenas who'd nick you for bus fare without a tremor an the nex' thing you know-zip! Youu "oh, don know. If the dices roll right"
 "An' that's another pastime I wanna squawk about. You got much chance with that bunch O grillas in crap tournament as---"
 How comes? Them dices, they don care who fades 'em; ehust as likely win like somebody eses. Always you got some notions whateffer I play lose because when make play for you lose. You know, guy he could be a rabbit in a bulldog store but a bulldog in a rabbit fact'ry well, I'm sayin before, tra-la an extra la from your friend Gus the Bus, the Sheik from the Bus"
 And Gus the Bus shuffled out.
 Can you beat that young whippersnapper feedin' me all that hoke about laundry vamps an bus rides?" unused Evelyn, starting toward her column of figures. 'Hm-I wonder if it's on the up an up. at that. Now, femme see--three an six is nine an four is thirteen an six is eighteen an seven-say, wouldn that be scream, if Gus really --oh, heck! ROW I've lost my place again--if he really was steppin' out O his character an goih around with fly jane-with two-with two-an' four is six nine is fifteen, an four is twenty, an'--"