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SAYS “YOU ALL” NOW.
PIEDMONT FABLE NO. 5.
K. Haki Klad was a doughboy. Not
a doughboy in the sense that he was
a kid who kneaded bread in a German
oakery, though, but a real, live true-
blooded, one hundred per cent, sure
’nuf American soldier. He was one
of the fellows who helped hand Bad.
Bill; the terrible Teutonic tyrant, the
disastrous defeat that made him plead
for peace to save his skin. No, he had
never helped make any bread, even
though his parents had seen to it that
he was well bred. Uncle Sam had
needed him, so he enlisted in the in
fantry. Therefore he was a dough
boy, even though hfe had never done
any kneading.
K.' Haiti’s Uncle Sammy had sent
him from his home, which was alrnost
anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon
line to southern soil for training, just
as he has sent so many southern soh
diers up north with the “Yankees.
He had an object in this, and believed
in mixing the boys. Besides,, the re
public has a» democratic form of gov
ernment.
K. Haki liked the south. He was
delighted with the sunny atmosphere,
the strange contrast of snow-white
cotton and its dark-skinned pickers,
and the numerous small streams that
trickled merrily everywhere through
the fertile fields and forests. The
Piedmont section particularly appeal
ed to our youthful doughboy, but the
greatest of all his likings were 4;he
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princWy people of the Southland.
Where he had comef rom, people
had long before become too busy mak-
ing money to think of much else.
They ate fast, drank fast, walked hur
riedly, and slept sound, but tor short
periods. They were extreme hustlers,
but to their own disadvantage.
Down here it was different, not that
that fact was anything to the south
erner’s discredit. When the latter act
ed, K. Haki discovered, it was only
alter due deliberation. He looked be
fore leaping, and quite frequently took
a second look after deciding not to
leap. He was set in his ways, not like
the weather-changeable.
When folks asked, “How you come
to be in town today?” K.. Haki an
swered, “On the car,”'thinking they
wanted to know the "means of trans
portation he had used. When some
said “Mout”. tor what he called
“might,” he almost thought they were
pronouncing “mouth” bowery
“Hit” back home meant “to strike,
but down here it was “it.” The
merry-go-round or the carousel of the
north became the “Flying Jinny” be
low Washington. K. Haki had always-
studied with an open book before him,
but the southerner “studies” every
time he deliberates. All ministers of
the gospel in the south were “preach
ers ” and all religious services were
'“preachin’”. Mules became Jar-
heads” and pails were “buckets.
Even the time of day was changed
for K. Haki. The afternoon of the
north became “evenin’ ” here and
when his girl greeted him with Good
Night” upon his arrival at her home,
as he wondered what had made her
sore, and why she had dismissed him
so soon.
Was K. Haki disappointed with the
south? Not so you could notice it. it
appealed to him strongly. He just
buckled down, learned the southern
er’s ways, and became one of them.
The Scotch-Irish southern hospital
ity completely captivated K. Haki. It
was just sticking out all ovj each
and every one individual whom ^ be
met. They were all extremely kind,
polite, and generous; what it took to
make a soldier happy, they had.
When they opened up their pretty
homes and said, “Won’t you all come
in and he welcome?” he and many
more ot the “Yankees” took advantage
of the invitation.
Did they enjoy themselves? Sure
’nuff K. Haki and his colleagues saw
southern hospitality in its true home.
They were treated royally; bounteous
repasts of cooking that can’t be beat
en were handed them in more than
generous quantities. The free eats
and entertainment were apparnt on
' very hand, but selfishness and jeal
ousy were absent altogether.
When the time camef or K. Hala to
. cross the pond, he did so with deep
regret. Not that he feared the Hun,
for he had enlisted to fight him, but
because the kind southerners found a
nlace in his heart. Moral; Keep the
home fires burning,” and
■ we’re “Yankees” and “Tar Heels, foi
we are all AMERICANS now.
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