Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 23

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I dont | s ideer and I like it less and | eeple have got into trubble | relations than by being ad recks ickers, pop, maybe he's a air with a million dollers and | aybe he'll leav all to you, I sed. | I mean wen I sed | Pop sed, its a very cheerful thawt and | gives me new hope and courage 1 And we keep on going till we came | to the little store ware you buy candy | | and fish hooks and overhalls and tooth- by gans and diffrent things, pop saying. I| now he lives here in the village some- I better make inquiries h he went in the store to do, say- | the man, Do you know a chap in | ¢ parts named Potts? 1 Id be mitey ignorant if T dident, the | man sed. Everybody around here | knows Jake Potts, he sed | O, then he must be quite a figure, | pop sed, and the man sed, Il say he's | a figure, he was in here not 15 minnits | 2go trying to get some chewing tobacco | | on eredit, and there aint a man in town | he dont owe money to, Jake Pottses | sflvery tung could weedle money out of | 2 woodent Indian. His wife is a figure | too. She wears shoes 2 sizes bigger | than Jakes and she's got a flow of lan- | | guage that would make a sailer blush, | O ves. their a cupple of figures, did | me to point out he sed ot at all, on the contrary, their no tions of mine, pop sed And we wawked back to the farm agen, ma saying. Did you find him? | and pop saying, No but 1 had a narrow ons S There is no rule that always works t told to exercise, if wed | that furks tn ambush | often told our years | o 5 | Rules and Excepti M a5 all port t excess I ps a score be a total loss: we j gorse and ling. and { cken and the moss. 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