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Show FKOM BILL TO STEVE i i i i i i VIEWS OF A BUSHEK By RING W. LABDNER. CHICAGO, Sop. 25. SteVe. Well Steve I seen in the paper tbe other day where they was a policeman police-man in Baltimore shot and lulled nud they catr.hed the fellow that 'lone it and i? going1 to put him on trile ariii if I was chose on the jurey T would leave him go Scott free and shako hands with him. Some of these hero polieomanB seems to think there the king of eurcpe and Its a wonder they aint more of them i shot and killed and some day 1m libel to get 1 of thojn my sell only of course T wont half to "use do gun but jist my boar fist and thev will thuik tho P. O. office fell on top of them. Vest. A. M. after breakfast Gussy says yhe would lilf to go down town and do some shopping so I says all right go a head but dont buy nothing that aint necessary. So she says why dont yon take me down in the car and T says I wonld-ent wonld-ent have time so she says your afrade to drive down town thats whats the matter with you. Well Steve I never yet s-.'erj nothing that L was afrade of weather its drive-ing drive-ing down town or what is it so I said all right get your hat on and if Xzn find for not geting to the ball pk. in time you got to stand for it so she says I. guess you could stav a way from the ball pk. a week ana then voud half to tell them vou waseut tfiere because they would-ent would-ent never guess it them self. So I says some thing back to her and then T went down to the garage and got the car out and come back and gut Gussy and a way we went. WELL Steve we got a long fine un till we came to the loop and then Id of been O. K. if it had-ent had-ent of been for Grnssy kept both-ring both-ring me and saying look out for this and look out for that and so 4th. till 1 dident know if I was driyeinff or sent up to bunt. I guess she must of thot I was blind and a deef and dnm mute and could-ent could-ent see or here nothing my self. Well by the time we come tn Ad- (Continued on Following Page;) So tho pollcemnn ucjt wlmis ihe pit tier with j ftAi and 1 saja uuthing I nevtr (.Ii beiiei in my r ilfe i FROM BILL 10 STEVE; VIEWS OF A BUSHED (Continued from Preceding Page.) ams and 'State she had ran out of breth telling me this that and the other' thing so 1 says whats the matter has the cat got your tung and she dident anser so T turned a round to look at her to see had she r'tnnted or some thing and 1st thing you know they was a big policeman hollering at me to stop so I stopped and we was right in the midrldle of the st. and state St. cars faeeing at us from both ways. So the policeman po-liceman says whats the matter with you and I says nothing I never felt better in my life and he says back up there to where you was' at and wait till you get a signle so T throwed the cinch in to the backup groove and come to find out my engine en-gine had dide on me. So I says I. would half to get out and crank' her before 1 could back up and h,o says I says It waf hPcaiiE.1 you stopped talking and th shni-lt killed It why dont you higher some feild and learn to driv? beft'ore you' come down here with your po rart. So T snys I puess you wouldent he so fresh if you Inlawed who I was. i , So he ast me who I was and T told him my name and he lide and says hp never herd of me. 80 T ayg dident you never here of the Chi cago Cubs and he says yes but dont rep port mo for it. yo-' I Says well Tn 1 of the Cubs and he savs what do vou do for a liveing and I says I plajy ball and he says I thot von says you was 1 of t.lie Cubs. So by this timo T hnd her cranked up biit Td forgot to lake the clueh out of the bark up groove and the min-ute min-ute the engine started the ear be gin to back up with me Mill out in the st. in front of it and T velln? to GtiRsy to stick her foot on th breaks and instert of the breaks shn stuck her font on the gasoline peddle ped-dle and the car shot back a mile a minute. "VSTKLL T chnste after her and T-T jumprd in and tride to stop her but it was to late aud we bumped in to a Adams st. ear thot was stand iug still on the track while the. motor man and conductor was getting shaved. We was both of us jarred un and the back end of my car was scrached and the st. car dident even get a mark. Well hy this time they was a hnl lot of peonl reckomzed who T was mid crowned a round aud the policeman come up and got after me nguin and savs he was going to take me in to the station so 1 says all right jump in and we will go to the station and vou will find opt who T am and he says T ktrpW who vou are to well to ride in y our c h r with yon. So then he srvs I wont take you in if ouIl get that there wcel barrow out of tho loop right a way- and promuss to not come ba.'k till you ve other tftrped to drive or lost it behind the piano. So T started to sass him back but Gussy was blubbering as usul so T seen the beat thing for me to do was tn get a wnv so 1 cranked her up apatn nml w rui home with I out Gussy doinp her shopping. So on the way home Gussy savs vquv : a fine driver leavjng your' engine die in the middle of the st. so T I says do you know why the engine dide and she ttiys because 'Ou 1 dont know how to drive and' T savs no it was because you stopped I tnlking and the shock killed it. j Well Steve the next time t drive down town in the loop they wont be no woman a long with me. and some of those here policenians could do there work better if they wasent so busy thinking up bright remarks. Respv. BILL, ' |