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Show ASK PA ASKITT; HE KNOWS "V-Just for Instance, He Tells Little Tom. . , . .w; my All About the Death - ' . of Julius Caesar. A "Ma, who was Julius Caesar?" asked -'Tommy Askltt .""'.. "Oh, Julius. As far as I know, Thom-, Thom-, - as of course, I'm not nearly as learn ,t sed as your father but I am very sure ' - Julius Caesar was a brother or jlncle ? ! .1 torero maybe his son. Anyway, as ,v : they both ruled over Rome," they must Tjave been some relation. Julius was a -great fighter. He." . "Dead wrong, Mrs. Askltt," ' Inter- ; ", erupted pa, who had been quietly read-i-,.-;''" .. taf before, but couldnl let a chance V pass without lording his , superior . ''knowledge over his wife and son, since 'home was the only place he could get "away with It , f . Tea, you're dead wrong. Why -didn't you ask me, Thomas? You come t me hereafter, when you want to Iknow anything difficult and particular. " Tour mother says that Julius was a , relation of Nero's. Why, Julius never -saw Nero and " . - : "But couldn't he be a relation wlth- '- out seeing him? I never saw grand- "fatber, but I'm a" "No, he couldn't I" snapped pa, "Fur- , "tbermore, Julius was not a great flght- -er. He was woman-crazy, that's what : Jhe was. ' . . ."Julius was a er a great er Roman senator until he met, like all v -v . :good men do" (there he glanced mean- "'-, lngiy at ina) "a woman on whom he showers jewels, gold, silver, eau de - : -cologne, rocks, blows-everythlng I And then she treats hlra like a dog In the ' , ': end. They're all alike, and poor Julie, '-. - , although a senator, was no different 'from the rest. "One day his good friend Brutus v whispered, '.Tule, beware of Ida . - j 'March V . ' (That was the woman's -name.) But Julie didn't pay any at-. at-. tentton to Brutus' warning and that 'Bight they both went to Ida's house. 'They had some dumplings ; he fell oyer hi a fit Brutus jumped over to him r and Just heard his last words : 'Bt two, : BruteP and then he expired. 1 Tm glad I didn't eat any," said Brutus. ' , "But pai what did Julius call him a "brute' for?" asked Tommy. , "I don't know, Thomas. He died be- fore he could erplain." Detroit Free |
