Entertaining Sister's Beau.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 42, 20 February 1903, Page 6 (Supplement)

Entertaining Sister's Beau.

My sister's beau's a feller 'at mos* any one'd like; He's orful good to me, an once lie let me ride his

; bike! He'd let' ifestandin by the gate, outside, an I

got on— An maw lit into scoldin, but he took my part,

doggone! He said I wouldn't hurt it, an I didn't neither. Say!. .'• . ■■ -■■ •!-■■■ But ain't it mean to acold a boy 'fore comp'ny

; that a-way? My tops an balls he looks at, an my "For a Good

Boy", cup When I'm a-entertainin him while sis is dressin up.

He'a jea' wrapped up in funin stamps, postmarks an tin tags, too; , I showed him mine, an he jes' looked my whul collection through. He says he "dotes" on bird eggs, an he handles 'em as if He knowed 'ey'd break like ev'rythinff' if once 'ey got a biff! :....' An, say, he listens to me when I tell him things on sis '.■''■■ ■' ' 'Bout her last beau, jes' 'fore him, an how I seed ;' 'em kissl ~, The feller, laughin, says, "Oho, of knowledge deep I sup," When I'm a-entcrtainin him while sis is dressin up.

An 'en sis she cornea down stairs "with face as fair as any saint," I heard hjm say, softlike, to her—he doesn't know it's paintl I'm most afeard •to tell him, though Z want to mighty bad, • . For he's the tipest topcst beau 'at si 3 she ever had, An 'tisn't right to fool him. Gee! He tells such bully things, Of shootin bears an catamounts an all such scary things, . An me an him talk ev'rything, from porkypine to pup . When I'm a-entertainin him whilo sis is dresßio up. . -»Roy Farrell Greene In Lealii>'« Weekly-.