And I says, “But why does the Spokesman allow such things?” and he says
that He is leaving it all to that Scared Sally.
And I says, “But Mr. Edgerton they have already give out a statement
that he will not be let to come in. The Spokesman has said it Himself.”
“Yes,” he says, “but the Spokesman can always take back what He has
said.”
“But Mr. Edgerton,” I says, “how can He when He is said it to a hundred
newspaper reporters and they have wrote it down?”
“He just says that He didn’t say it and they all have to say they made
a mistake.”
“But my God don’t none of them ever kick?”
“Two of them done it onst but all they got was they was not allowed to
no more interviews which put them out of business and taught the others
better.”
“Well,” I says, “if a Man has got all the newspapers where you can
walk on their faces like that,” I says, “why does He want an electric
camelephant to ride?”
He says it has always been that way there used to be what was called
an Ananias Club in Washington and that was for people that had objected
to the Spokesman changing his mind. He says that now they don’t allow
no stenographic notes of the Spokesman’s interviews so that it will not
be possible to prove what He has said. “And so you see,” he says, “how
easy it is to be a Great Man.”
“Well,” I says, “they will see that Hunkie count will make a fool out
of them all,” and he says, “That is exactly what will happen and it
will give the Spokesman a black eye worse than the one that He got up
there when He had the police-strike,” he says. “The truth is I am sick
of telling Him what to do and not having it done and if somebody was to
offer me a good position in private life I would take it tomorrow.”
I says, “Oh Mr. Edgerton do not desert your country and do not desert
me.”
“Don’t you worry Mamie Riggs,” he says and that is the first time
he has ever called me Mamie. “I am not agoing to desert you and you
will have a friend in me for the rest of your life for you have got
more sense than any male politician in the business,” he says and of
course that is a sweet thing to say and he gives my arm a squeeze as we
are walking on the street but then I am scared because I have got to
remember that he is a married man and all.
So to remind him I says, “And how is the wife getting on?”
He says, “Oh she is having the time of her life because this getting
syked is the best thing that is ever come along so she says.”
And then he goes on to tell me about this and it seems that a lady pays
this syking man ten dollars an hour to listen to her troubles and about
her soul and she gets to be more and more interested in that syker and
that is a regular part of the treatment it seems and it is called by a
long name it is a Transference.
And I says, “Well Mr. Edgerton they are always getting new names for
old things,” I says, “for when you go to a moving picture that thing is
what is called a Triangle.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account