The daily worker., 1926-08-15

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for while to rest They had the body had
jury hear the testimony Others at the body
and then give burial permit Paul dead mans
bunk and looked over his things and put them all into box
be shipped his wife, Dad had his pocket
that had been found among the things
play he him these letters and Bunny
and read them pul little messages scrawied childish hand
telling how the doctor said that Susies
long time after the u and the baby getting
and awful and Aunt Mary just her.
and said that Willie in Chicago and doing good
cossarks and circles that kisses from and from
Dad and Bunny Il am glad that got such good boss
Well melancholy Thanksgiving evening for them:
they ate little of the feast which Ruth had prepared but with
out real enjoyment They talked about accidents Dad
OF something which had happened in the first well ne had drilled
they down only thirty feet when baby had crawled
into the cellar and slid into the hole had taken couple
to hold the mother back while the them
tried get the child They big on
the end of and got the hook under the bab body and
lifted gently feet then body got wedged some
how, and they helpless The child had hung there
like that stopping they could hear plainly They
work breaking the ground with bars scraping
buckets ropes they got the baby they
sideways and got the baby all right The
sunk into the flesh of the thigh but without breaking the skim
the bruse had healed and in few days the child all right
strange thing ife If Bunny had stayed home that
at the moment when poor Joe Gundha had plunged to his DOOM
Bunny would have been yelling his head off few yards
gained by his And the evening, he'd have been
at dance BERTHE actually was at dance at the home of
of her fashionable friends fancy hotel where
they giving party; Bunny could his minds eye
her gng shoulders and BOSOM her dress Of soft shmmeng
stuff bright cheeks vivid face sho would be slipping
champagne gliding about the in the Of Ashegh
Mathews the young fellow she was in love with just now AUNT
Emma would be all dressed playing at card partys and
grandmother painting picture of young lord duke
somebody in short pants and silk stockings kissing the hand Of
his lady love.
Yes life was strange-and cruel. You lived the little
circle your consciousness and people said
what you didn't know didn't hurt you Your Thanksgiving din
spoiled because aborer had slid down into
well which you happened to own but dozens and perhaps hum
deds of had been hurt in other wells all over the country
and that didn't trouble bit For that matter think of all
the who dying over there in Europe All the way from
Flanders to Switzerland the armies hiding in trenches bonn
harding each other day and night and thousands were being
anged just horribly as by an oversho in the bottom OF we'll
but you hadn't intended to let that spoil your Thanksgiving DIM
ner bt Those didn't much to you the
quail you going to kill the next day.
Well came and they buried the body of Joe
Gundha, hilltop little way back out Of sight, and with
wooden cross mark the spot 1t was Job for Mr. Shrubbs
the preacher Ellis church, and Eli along and old Mr.
Watkins and his wife and other old ladies and gentlemen Of the
church who liked go to funerals 1t was seemed
glad have them and tell him what to do they knew and
he didn't Obviously it didn't really do the poor devil any good
preach and pray over his manged corpse but at least was
something and there people who and did it, and all
had to do st to stand bareeaded in the sun for
while and hand the preacher ten dollar bill afterwards Yes
that the proceduen DEATH in life you wanted some
that thing, and you paid him. TO Bunny seemed natura
phenomena all the whether Mr. Shrubbs. who
prayed dead roughneck or the man at the nng STA
supplied the and oil and and air for
public officials who supplied the road which drove
the
Dad sent telegram to Mrs Gundha telling her the sad
adding that sending check for hundred dol
immediate expenses Now Dad wrote letter.
explaining what they had done ana now t were senung ner
husbands things box by Dad carried insurance
liability accidents and Mrs Gundha would be paid
by the insurance company she must present ner claim 70 the
accident commission They would probably allow her
thousand dollars and Dad hoped she would invest the
bonds and not let anybody swnde her. with oil
stocks other get rich quick schemes
So that that and Dad said they might jist 60
shooting what they couldn't help And Bunny
all right truth he didn't enjoy the sport because