The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17


Christmas coming and Bunny had his program all aa
going Dad the Christmas Day football
game morning they would leave for Paradise and
there until it time to go back for the New Years Day
game well going fine; they down over
thousand feet in soft shae and having trouble Then
couple of weeks before Christmas Bunny came home from school
Aunt Emma said Your father just phoned he's got some
amiyExcelsior Peter Aunt Emma had guessed that Pete
was nickname and she would be real adyke ana use tne
'What it?" cried Bunny. .a dA4s
At Paradise?" Bunny rushed the phone in great
element Yes said Murgns had st phoned down;
Excesor-Carter L. well called, had been in oil
days. and had managed keep secret Now
they cementing off, something you couldn't hide.
Bunny jumped the and rushed down to the Office
Everybody excited the afternoon papers had the news and
oil friends dropped to talk about it. 1t meant
there would be rush to Paradise Dad was
think he had twelve thousand acres up
there them outright How had happened? Dad said
wasn't his dongs he had spent hundred thousand dollars
list to amuse boy get interested in the business and
& b bd done the teacbinqI Mr. Banksde who had got to
quite now and drilling well of his own said
always hoped his would lose when they started
gambling so hevd not get the habit yes he'd risk
Bunnys soul once much at stake
After course Bunny and needles to get
Paradise quit school, but Dad said Bunny
decided he didn't Christmas Day football
game Dad think? To which Dad answered that he'd
managed along the of fnne without ever see
ling game! Bunny said he'd write and tell Ruth
they'd Christmas starting after school, and have
dinner late regular society style would be had Ior ut
that fashionable people in the cities ate their dinner at
eight nine o'clock at night!
Meantime bit grinding in the well; they were
down to 23OO feet that No
2437 Bunny mucn excited
the phone between classes at school, and
fathers secretary at the office to ask there was any
news days before Christmas he got the magic
phone and said that Bunnys well in
early yet to any more they were taxing
that ALL AS he got free from class, Bunny
flying the Office and there he listened to converse
in long distance CALL and was talking to the
whom he his machinery He ordering patent
the biggest made to be shipped to the we was
put truck and start tonight and when they got toa
driver phone to the well and let the fore
then Dad talking to Murgns again. telling
the casnghead due, and when he got
phone set to work and break out the drill
that casnghead tight with Jugs on the side
bury with not less than fifty tons Dad said
off from everything out there at Paradise and
have blowout: it would be the very devil
they got their eight feet of it, and was hgh
gravity waiting for them down underneath those
the feet of goats and sheep had od for so
ordered his ankage and then he ordered
more they that the casnghead had arrived
and the 'ugs and when the cement
set all the gas under Mount Vesuvous couldn't lift that
there load They started drilling again. and took
found the oil heavier yet So finally Dad gave
way said important, he guessed Bunny would
have beg school Dad orders to wash the
he called the cement man. and arranged for the big
truck Paradise Dad would meet them there and
they the job the day before Christmas and they got
their shuo they'd with the biggest turkey in that
raising country So early the next morning Dad and
the Three hours later they stopped
the well had water shut-of and had drilled