The Washington times., 1924-12-30
ANOTHER
EARFIJL
BY Ben. A. Barbour.

NELL, buddies, set up an
W slip on the earmuffs an
III hand va q couple OF mouth
fuls Of how me an the wifi
don't cit along together. She
says the radio has put our
happy home on the blink an
they ought to be q law to can
radios in married families be-
cause they make a guy not speak
Ito his wifi nor also listen to her
line Of talk which she has BEN
savin' up for him all day.
Well, az / was attached to my
superb iodine set the other night,
tryin' to horn in on a burIesque
show that was bein' shot over
the atmosphere, the wifi waltzes
in with her brother Roddy, whose
a total loss to me, an she an
nounces that the program Of
the evenin' is for me to stand BY
an play cards with them while
he smokes UP all my best cigars.
waves the wifi aside an tells
her to can the chatter for I'm
tryin' to hook onto a good bur-
lesQue show. I'm Jest about to
git what I'm after when she hits
the machine with her elbow as
accidental as Jack Dempsey
slams his viz-a.viz in the ring.
An the machine sets up a boiler
that SQUADS like a auto horn that
amt ben invented yet.
That gifts my goat an l tears
off the earmuffs an makes q few
remarks at the wifi. suggestin'
that what she done is a dirty
trick an she better take her
false alarm reIlytive out to the
dinin' room an teach him how
to ngger out the int'rest on
five-spot he nicked me for in
the dear dead past.
She gives me a glare an in
forms me that NY, manners amt
fit to throw into the garbage can.
Her brother hands me an in
dignation look but I kin see that
the shot about the five-spot has
hit him a duh, sickenin' thpd.
That guy, would borry your gold
tooth II it wasn't riveted to your
Jaw.
Meantimes I was commencin'
to git peevish myself an am
about to scatter a. few insults 1
learned from the campaign rough
necks when my superb iodine set
suddenly hits the right wave
length an a voice in the loud
speaker says: Throw him out!
Outside, outside"
The Whit has her beautiful
movie star back turned at the
time but she whirIed onto me hike
I had kicked her crippled sister
an she shouts: Are you or
derin' my dear brother from OF
your fireside?"
l was near cuckoo for a minute
over what the loud speaker had
said so I didn't have no snappy
remark to present to her.
She didn't give me no chance,
neither. "I1l have you under
stand" she says to me. that half
Of this here instalment outfit be-
longs to me, an that my folks is
ever welcome to occupy It when
ever they sees fit, an nobody amt
goin' to give 'em the gate 90 long
as have tongue In my head.
An, what's more, / amt goin' to
have you insultin' no kin Of mine
under my own roof
Just then the radio broke in
with the impertinent remark:
You talk like a fish"
It was actually tincanny the
way the stuff from that show
fitted in with the delightful eve
MIN me an the wifi an her
dear brother was havin'.
"So-your old radio is insultin'
me, too, is it?" says the wifi, so
mad she could Of bit me a couple
Of times.
WELL" comes back, "I agree
with it, an that makes it unani-
nous. An, speakin' Of fish, I'd
like to have that town. brother Of
yourn pay me the five carp he
bummed often me the last time
he sneaked in here"