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Show o 4 BILL'S SPECIALTY. They found the old man sitting 011 the fence smoking his corncob. "Howdy, pap! What's your son Jim doing these days?" "Jim? Oh, he's running a telegraph tele-graph key at the depot. Jim's an operator." op-erator." "And how's Zcke?" "Zckc? Wa-al, Zcke is captain of a lake steamer. lie's a navigator." "And Pete? Is he still living?" "Oh, yes. Pete's working on an airship. He's what they all an aviator." avia-tor." "Well, what has become of Bill. Is he doing anything?" The old man blew a quid of tobacco tobac-co at a wide-eyed grasshopper. "Yep, stranger, Bill's hanging around the house all day grumbling and complaining and saying the country's coun-try's going to smash. Bill's just an aggravator, just a plain aggravator." When the man from the country who is strong on the "boyhood-days" talk wants to see the "boss," always show him right in, especially on Saturdays. Sat-urdays. It shows your heart is in tlu ,right place, if your head isn't. |