Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-02-27
All Cleaned Up for
an Interview
BY RING LARDNER

SAlNNtH NlAAA ~
phone bell so Of course thought n
first IT must be the wrong NO. Ike
usual. bur | answered il and the girlie
saws Bridgeport wants you. so SAD
yes I sunpose they do but ! can't live
everywheres at once and then aho'her
female voice spoke up and she saiu
she was a reporter on the Bridgeport
Herald and when could she get a IN
terview.
So | thought for the second TIM
that they must be calling the wrong
No but soon | remembered who ! am
so | kind Of snarled back at her IKE
all the big birds do when you ask
them for a interview but didn't snarl
so as she could hear me for the rear
she would think il was a sincere
snarl and would hang up Il END II
all. and little by little we got more
friendly and she said she would pc
over the folling Tuesday. So then the
both Of us hung up on each other n
| come back into the parlor with a
kind OF pale look and the Mrs. said
who was that woman and | said she Is
a reporter on the Bridgeport Herald.
What does she want?
She wants to interview me because
! am notorious.
Yes but you been notorious ever
since YOU were kiddish and nobody
wanted to Interview you till now.
Well | said the n. y. City papers
has started the fashion by interview
ing George Maeterlink that can't even
parle anglais and this lady is going TO
show them up by talking to a poet
witch can say something back besides
oolala and anyway she is coming over
here next Tuesday to see me SO that's
that.
Yes replied the Mrs. but when you
used to interview ~notorletys like ~
Cobb and Jessie Willard for instants,
why you done it without going to no
bother like seeing them.
So | said shut up and between that
day which was a Thursday and the
folling Tuesday l took light exercise
and read and eat a good deal and
things went along about as usual with
out no marked change till the Monday
night when l begin to feel a little
dizzy right after the supper and ]
thought at first it must be something
had eat or something till l OF the
kids happened to make the remarB
that tomorrow was Tuesday and then
it flashed on me that all that stood
between the Bridgeport lady and
was a ordinary Monday night In the
summer time.
But was 1t a ordinary Monday night
god forbid. l retired early and las
there and tossed and read the story ol
Joseph Hergesheimer and tossed some
more until 1t must of been fully
O'Clock when l dropped into a light doze
witch came to a sudden terminus a
7:3O Tuesday A. NJ. and it was broaG
day and | got up and shaved myself
and dressed the latter and came dowI
TO breakfast. Already the women folks
was cleaning up the parlor in honor
of the occasion emptying the asi
trays. chairs and etc.
They was a sensation when | en-
tered the dining room where The |
elderest children was working on theil
prunes.
How do you happen to be up sait
one.
What have you got a collar on for
Wear is your whiskers!
SO | gave them each q nasty lool
and they shut up and | set down ant
eat a hearty breakfast of serial, toas
and coffee.
Promptly at a II Of Il what shoul'
ring the door bell and who was Their
but the lady from Bridgeport? No
body. We shook hands and exchanges
a few conidents and l led her In TIL
parlor and was just going to call he
tension to it being all cleaned up TO
the occasion when my eye happened t
stray under the radiator and Their
was the mouse trap. Well you cOul
Of knock me over with a big roc
when | seen 1t but lucky its Iates
quarry had been removed but they wa
no telling when the next little rasca
would scamper in and get himself |
trouble and probably raise enoue
he'll about it to. spoil the party. TIL
lady may of wondered why II was
kept stomping my #. and coushin;
and etc. Well ii was to warn all vel
min that the room was occupe To Us
a frog expression and don't trcspa>
only at your own risque.
The details OF The interview can b
read in The Bridgeport Herald but an.
way before 1t was over They was SUI
picious noises towards the dining rooI
door and a wifi of beans ana pancake
smote the n0Strils and the lady cot u
and pulled d camera and asked If ST
could take a picture Of whatever kiC
they were left in The house so wei
for one and he was b%rOushlcn dow
and didn't know me on acct. Of beiI
shaved at that hr. Of the day an
busted out crying so | kind of choke
him a little and he quit and we wi
all photographed and the Mrs. asst Il
lady from Bridgeport would she ST.
at lunch and she said no and wake