The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-04


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morning they forth after trout and the they
stopped they Dad cautioned
Bunny you say word don't make any
this They entered and Mr.. Hardacre said
young Bandy speaking for his father
sell ranch twenty thousand dollars Bunny heart
eaped and well that Dad had warned him. for he wanted
cry Take it. Dad! Take @ But he caught himself and
sat rigid while Dad sad Holy smoke what does the fellow
take for?"
explained there twenty good
land this tract and Dad said all right call that hundred
and the four thousand that meant
Bandy trying soak them fourteen dollars for his
thousand of rocks He must think he had sucker his
hook
To tell the truth Mr. Ross" said the agent he knows
you're oil and he thinks you're going drill this tract
'An right" "You is o round and
find somebody to drill his tract and he gets any OIL I'll
the law will let me shoot in season"
The was that Dad said he would pay twelve thousand
cash. and otherwise he'd forget it, and after they
the and started the engine Bunny whispered Gee wh Dad
pickle while got all the land I drill right now"
But Dad he might get someone else to drill it?'
Don't you worry You want that land because got
hunch but nobody has lunches
young Bundy get tired after he's tried while Let's and
me go a-fshin'."
la little mountain lake, and late the evening they
Ito the Bascum place. Paul fish, of
and asked Paul all of questions
he wished he hada got that kind of education
study biology and physics instead of letting them fill
up with Latin and poetry and history business about old kings
and their and their mistreses that wasn't bit
nobody?
Next morning they goodbye to Paul. and went back
into the mountains and spent most of the day getting
then they set out for Beach City, and
Bunny school, treasurer for
the baseball team and Dad putting
on the Armtage tract and three the Wagsta tract And
meantime the nations of Europe had established
two lines of DEATH extending all way continent
and millions of men, under the spell of
chantment rushed to these lines have their
Tho
newspapers told about battles months and the
price OF petroleum products continued to pile fortunes
Summer here BERTHE had plans for her brother
BERTHE was now lady of eighteen, brilliant flashing
creatureshe picked clothing shiny
BERTHE got dress of purple carmne orange green why
then mysteousy there stockings and Shoes and hat
end gloves and handbag shade Dad said she
would soon be having sporcars match Dad gmy
morous about the stacks of bills puzzled by this
splendid young butterfly helped out Aunt En-
ma said the child entitled her hng" so paid the
charges but he stood as solid as Gibraer against Berries eff
forts to push him into her BY goy no-he
was scared to death of them high muckmuc especially
the women when they gared him through their lawnets
whatever they called them-he felt potatobug
could he to people that didn't know
from suckerrod rotator?
This vulgar had been taken UP by Bunny who
thought "smartso his sister ered young
Of kid Of sixteen but there younger and sisters
OF Bere rich friends and she wanted Bunny scrape oil
finger nails and come into this fashionable
world and get moreworth while girl Tantor Bun
n.y. always curious about things tried and had
to young persons didn't interest
him much he couldn't that they anything or
could do anything special Their talk one another
and they had cryptic illusions made
slang that amounted almost to language. Bunny didn't
like of them well enough decphering t.
and he would rather his oil clothes
roughneck" he would help the and the tool
dressers out the Of roundup that
came out with the mud and that choking the way
to the sump-hoe
Meantime Bunny thinking, pretty soon be had
scheme Dad he sad what about that cabin going
to build Paradlse?"
well, WHAT" asked Dad. S'9sNM
Paul writes that Ruth has stay with him. So next
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