The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-06-07
New Henry Whipperwill
Johnson Story
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IL you DO. you can put damper on
that gibble-gabble you're handing
out and hit the ozone tonight, be-
cause the more | look at you the
more | am convinced that had bats
in my belfry when | permitted a
sky pilot to humble that IT'LL death
doth US part" stuff to me and | an
swered in the affirmative. Every
body said | was crazy when | mar
ried you"
yep, and one of us has the
opinion that you is still that way" I
answers. ''Now turn over and go to
sleep and keep that clap-trap shut
until the alarm clock gives the sig
nall for another round"
This keeps her quiet for a while
and am just drifting off into the
land of snooze, when | is half con-
sciously aware that the wife is sniff
fling as though she is hay fever
victim, powdering her nose with a
golden rod powder puff.
You don't love me any more, do
you, Henry?" she blubbers, babyish.
Hell! yes" replies, pulling the
covers higher over my head to shut
off the receiving set. Nov, shut
up and grab yourself a couple of
SHORES; it's late"
"But, you didn't usta boiler at me
like that" she suffers, letting out
a new flood of tears.
Who's hollering at you?" | yelps,
loud enough to get job as a fog
horn on seagoing yacht. "Why
don't you give your tongue the night
off and let Teller build up his worn
out tissues with a tonic of sleep and
restmore?"
This, apparently, turns the trick,
because it grows as quiet on the
other side of the bed as though they
was having silent prayer in a deaf
and dumb asylum.
| is just congratulating myself
on my cleverness at finding in my
brain mouthful of phrases
that would gag the frau without re-
sorting to the use of sash weight,
when, what does she do but pops the
Henry, is there another
woman who makes you want to get
rid of me?"
In spite of the fact that at that
particular moment | would feel very
grateful to the power that would au-
remove the other half of
my mattress and its contents to
China, ] was forced to inquire as to
where she obtained the information
that was busying myself on this
radiance proposition.
"Never speak to ME again, you
BRUTE" she commands, getting out
Of bed and starting across the room.
"That is all right with me, Honey"
replies. eff you will promise to do
The same thing"
Her answer that she would gives
me so much relief that | gets real
for the first time that
night and am on the trail of Nor
Dheus when what does she do but
,urns on the light.
| watches her out of one eye as
,he fits about, the room, gathering
Up this piece of feminine unmention-
lbles and that, ransacking the bureau
lrawers and packing the whole kay
poodle into suit case, but ]. don't
,ay nothing, although | has a dick
ms of time trying to muffle the
law haws when she stumps her toe
m a chair.
After WEIGHING into her street
luds, she papses at the door to see.
+ | has anything to say, but | sends
up solo of snores in deep falsetto.
Pretty soon | feels her shaking me.
: "You might tell me goodbye"
he snaps, seeing as how | never
expect to look into your mealy
nushed map again."
"But, Baby, you forgets that you
md me amt speaking at each other
10 more: but where do you think
,ou is going?"
II am going home to mother, be-
'ause | have tolerated enough abuse
rom a banjo-eyed rapscallion like
you is. don't wish you no bad
uck, but | hope you mistake can
If pulverized bichloride of mercury
or graduated sugar and sprinkle il
on a doughnut full of arsenic"
She goes downstairs quick and
,lams the front door.
1t is now a. m. and as we live
n the suburbs with a long walk to
Liit bHuI 10 SO lHdJ YOU
S liable to bump into you ownself,
amt bit surprised when l hears
her coming in again, very slowly.
"You big Louisiana alligator" she
begins, "you might get up and see
your wife to the carline instead of
wing in bed resting your lazy car
lass. You don't care what happens
% me between here and home"
"Mrs. Johnson" l replies, ere
CARELESS of what other sins | has to
answer for, will never be guilty
IF helping married woman run off
from her husband at A 80, in the
If you just must go, will
larry your luggage in the morning,
lut respectable young men like my
self can't be too careful with our
Try and make yourself
till daybreak."
She is sitting fidgety on the edge
Of chair when l actually do go to
sleep.
In the morning when I scramble
downstairs instead of seeing her
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