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Show YE TOWNE GOSSIP By K. C. B. THE OTHER day. AT THE ball game. I SAT In front. OF A young man. WHO WAS explaining. TO A young lady. WHAT THEY were doing. ON THE diamond. AND SHE listened. i FOR A long time. INTENTLY. AND THEN said. "I DON'T like their suits. ' ' ' "DO YOU7" AND AFTER a while. SHE ASKED him. WHAT THEY were doing. WITH ALL the flowers. AND HE said. THEY WERE giving them. TO A MR. Matthewson. AND SHE said. "DO THEY do that. "EVERY DAY?" AND HE said. "THEY HAVE to do it. "OR HE won't play." AND SHE said. "HOW FUNNY." - V " AND AFTER a while. SHE SAID. "WHY ARE all the people. "CLAPPING THEIR hands?" AND HE said. "THEY'VE JUST signalled. "ON THE big hoard. "AT THE end of the field. "THAT THEY'VE caught a shark. "OFF THE Jersey Coast." AND SHE said. "HOW FUNNY." AND HE said: "Yes." "IT'S A scream. "HIT THE ball. "YOU BIG cheese." AND SHE said. "WHY, HARRY, "SUCH LANGUAGE." AND A little later. ROBERTSON SLID. AND SHE said. "WHY DOES he get down. "ON HIS stomach?" AND HARRY said. "THERE WAS a fly on it. "AND HE wanted to crush it." AND SHE said. "HOW FUNNY." AND HE didn't strike her. AND I knew. SHE WASN'T his wife. New York American. |