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u GOOF-y-GlMK say: I am a goin to git out an hunt me sum, com silks an rabbit backer to smoko., cause you cont. git no cigerets here hardly a tall. Hits gou to whar. I cant find no more. "Ducks” cause might nigh ever .body is a shootin them. Ole Fitts Rollins throws down the longest ones, cause he .^jorks in the store an can git more then enybodyc ^ Charlie V/ease said that sum fellers smokes hem as long as they can, but he smokes them as short as he can. Vflien he throv/s one down hit is so short that hit never does hit the ground, hit just floats off in ^\the air* Sum of the fellers dont v/ant no bod;Pto see them-a shoptin "Ducks" ^ so they git them a walkin stick an put a sharp nail in the end of hit; ah they vjill start out a limp- an when they see a "Duck" they will limp up, look aroun an if no body aint a watchin their: they will stick that nail in that "Duck". "Doodle" Laughlin tole me not to tell no body but he wood give me a nickel fur a hand full of jood long./-Ducks'!i i ' I toie:you all about goin. to that fish an chicken bupper up at Mr. Nixon Whiistri'ants the/tuther*day, .well' I axed him .f he vvds a goiii to' put on a nuthqr.Qne'soon.. , Ho said^he mite, but if a Icrtain feller was a goin tq'be thar 'he wood haf to. put on a kiver charge, who'that feller-v/a’s >an he tole me; but he tole me hot to tell who hit v/as. An I aint a goin to tell on him nuther by (George;) Bless his little (Hart). I saw a ole copjper head ford pass here ,tuther day,.-jnaybe, sum pf. you fellers never did see one, Cciuse they cdnre out bCjforo s^ of you. all was bom. ; Hit tuck me away back yonde!c^Avh(5n’ the first fords coitfd put," Away back then the roads was so rough that they couldeb make but about ten'miles a hour. I used to go .down thar an set mite nigh all day by- the side of the road, till a ford wood come by. "nien I wood ruh along behind hit fur a. mils ct to jest to git to smell the smoke that come out of hit. If gas keeps gitten "scace" I mite be a doin that agin, sum of these days. Miz Effie Parker. tole you fellers last’month'that she knowed-of ;,a swarm of bees that. I hadent'reported. ' She 'said t^at my eye site was a gitten bad. ' Well, hit shorley is, cause I have looked in Svery^'nop^ ^d. corner, an I aint saw nary swarm no whar. I have bCjeh a doin a littii^ thinkin thou^ylately^ an I jest wonder" if them coud be Mr Parkers bees. If they air,^ho lives ^in'^Sholby, an I aint a^keepin up with the bee bwarmin in Shelby, Well, the leckshun will be next week, but I dont no if' they wii;j..:let me vote er not. If they do I am a goin to'vote fur Hr Dewey Roosevelt, cause I think he will be the best man, - ' . ' I shore do hope all of-'you a]^'vot(^.s, fur your votes is a ;goin to mean a lot in this leckshun. ‘ . . . ' ' ' WeU., I reckon I had better ring off fur this time^ So till next time, so long and good luck, . "" * Girl; "I*m afraid dad alwq,ys turns out the ligjits at 12 o*clock," Gob: "What a good sport he must beI"
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