It kind of makes me restless Mable when I think of you and Main St. and
the fello with the long hair in Billings and Stover what used to make us
up Sundays. An I get lonesome for Maple st. with you an me sittin at one
end of the piazza pretendin we was listenin to your father readin the
newspaper out loud. If I ever get old, Mable, dont let me read the
newspaper out loud. An do you remember how still wed have to sit sos the
hammok wouldnt squak after eleven o'clock or your fatherd stick his head
out the door an say that if I didn't have a home you did? An how wed
go canooing at Weewillo park Saturday nights and stay out till the fello
that hired the boats out went to sleep. I was always a good spender. You
know that, but thrifty. Thats me all over, Mable.
[Illustration: "THE FELLO WITH THE LONG HAIR"]
I was comin back to camp the other night and a guard stopped me and says
"Who goes there?" an I says without thinkin "Me an Mable every Saturday
night." Thats the way I am now.
Max Glucos says poetry. Spring hits him that way. Some gets hay fever,
some rash and others poetry. He says one thing that starts "In the
spring a young mans fancy vests and socks come into view." He says a
fello named Burns wrote it. Angus says Burns was a hot skotch. But I
guess you wouldnt understand that.
Were going to have a divishun show. Of course every body in the divishun
isnt goin to be in it. A lot of them has to be detailed to watch it.
They asked me what I could do and I said most anything but Id like to
say a piece called Gungadien. Its a piece I came across in a book by a
fello I never heard of so I didnt think any of the fellos would know it.
They told me to report at the mess shack an theyd fix me up. When I went
they told me I was electrician cause anybody could recite pieces but
they had to have a fello with a bean on him to be electrician. They
told me they was goin to hold me for an emergency. If the show went
rotton an everybody got throwin things then theyd send me out.
Fellos is funny, Mable. Most of em when you ask em say they cant do
nothin. Then if they think they aint goin to be urged they say there
rotton but theyll have a try at it. Then when they get down rehersin
they get so pleased with themselves they dont want to quit an give
nobody else a chance. Its part of the electricians job to get them away
when they get through. One fello plays a ukaylaly and sings Howareyoun
songs. He thinks there so sad that he almost cries every time. We think
so too but it makes us mad instead.
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