Well it made me hot to listen to them sillies giggling there and I
says, “That is all a bunch of nonsense,” I says, “that camelephant
does not travel but it stays on one place and it goes when you press a
button and the reason it is a camelephant not a zebray is got nothing
to do with prohibition,” I says, “but because it is ordered for His
liver and the camelephant is a beast that has got a very bumpy gate and
it shakes you a lot when you ride on him.”
Well and of course that got the lot of them peeved and Ada Huggins the
silly that wants me to call her Adaire only I won’t fool with such
nonsense she says, “What do you know about it?” And I says, “Never you
mind what I know,” I says, “but I know a lot more than you think I
know.” “Maybe you have been invited up to that big white house to visit
Him,” she says and I says, “Maybe I have been and maybe I will be I
aint telling it to you.”
Well of course that intreegs them a lot, for they have saw there is
something mysterious in my life and they would give a day’s pay to know
but I dont say nothing because it is a state secret as Mr. Edgerton
says and my power to educate him and the Spokesman would be gone if
anybody knowed that I was doing it he says the newspapers would not
respect the ideas that I give them if it was knowed that they come from
a manicure girl in the Elite Beauty Parlors.
* * * * *
P. S. Well Mom I have saw Mr. Edgerton again and it is getting to be
very exciting because there is sure some enemy that is shadowing us
and trying to find out what we are doing. Mr. Edgerton says whenever
he comes out of the big white house there is somebody following him
but he managed to shook him off and we had another dinner in the Greek
restaurant where they cook things with mutton suet and he told me all
what is happening. And it seems that it is very dreadful because the
papers all over the country is laughing about that camelephant and
telling all kinds of silly things like that it makes an awful racket
while it runs or that the Spokesman has got a secretary riding with him
and dictates his male while he goes out for a camelephant gallop.
Mr. Edgerton says he give positive orders to the reporters of all
the newspapers of the country that nothing more was to be sent out
on that camelephant but it done no good because the editors was all
telegraphing for more and even cabling from South Africa and China and
if the editors didnt get no more they would make it up anyhow. And
the Spokesman is so worried that He has not been able to think about
governing the country for the past few days but only scolding about who
let the camelephant out of the stable.
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