Show 1 I V W rt c. c t mm TOGO SWATS THE FLY Dear Sir Last midnight p p. p in m. were historical date when I 1 bade sad by a to employment from homo home of ot Mrs K W. W Pumphrey North Bourbon Ky This were too bad accident from my helplessness When I enter this home Hon lion Mrs Pumphrey say me Togo she relate I am most particular about flies I ill am su sure e you must raise some delicious varieties of these live stock I collapse for chivalry O 0 n not t to do she harshly I would sooner have a a. tiger In my home than a fly They should not be bo permitted permUted to fly I abhor It is not when they they fly fly they are harmful They do the d damage mage when they land she tellIn tell In this they are similar to airplanes I smuggest she combust At any rates I give you instructions Whenever Whenever When- When ever over you ou see se a fly track him to his hole and shoe shoo him at once Only horse horseflies can be shoed I determinate She Sho could not assimilate this reply I said Whenever I see flies she sho say furthermore I not so much for tor self celt husband as for dearie Baby Alexander who are enda endanger ger Thusly it were with Hon Mrs Pumphrey about flies fites Each morning ming she examine paper fly lovingly like liko mariners studying charts How many flies fifes we caught this a a. a m. m Togo she ask It Six I say it Five house and one butter Unloosen Hon Butterfly she dement We Wo should not punish natures nature's lovely because of sins of others So I grabb that lovely ly and attempt remove him from his sticky toes But when I done so he turn meanly and bite me on thumb with hot end of his poison polson tall tail That butterfly are a a. wasp I lecture amid Japanese word curse After 2 2 days of continuous I become extremely skillful in murder My ears became very bright by listening for flies At distance of 66 ft I could hear Hon Fly walking up windows Then was time for tor me My eyebrows containing gunpowder expression peculiar to Hon Roosevelt I hide behind shade curtain-shade with cruel hand containing swat By this warfare I broke considerable flies and other dishes Hon Pumphrey husband come home saying scorn about flies files Man who talk like that never had any infancy Hon Mrs with peeve If U folks in this could pay less attention to screen door nn more to window lock there would be less burglary he otter 6 homes alas flaa b been en burglarized while everybody was busy snubbing flies He remove one enlarged gun gunish Ish revolver filled with bullets and lay him doggishly on table O 0 This from Hon Mrs Once Hon Fly alight downward on Baby Alexander nose shaking his cruel ruel feet intending to leave symptoms Spank I capitulate that G t tI V I t J II i I is 1 I I I I You Mean Say You Approach in Here So Stealthy at Midnight for Catch Flies Files I by stroking Hon Baby on head with apron Yet he cry without thanks thank for my bravery At lastly that house were so scarce scarce of flies files you could not find him without advertising All day while not sweeping other rugs I I search back bac with cruel fly spank Yet never a buzz was there Such was accomplishment accomplishment accomplishment ac ac- ac- ac of my great science Night of approach up When eat dinner-eat was accomplished an and wash dish-wash ceremony done up my Cousin Nogi arrive to kitchen for make mak conversation from Japanese politics while eating cake kindness of Mrs Pumphrey who didn't know it Lateness of hour arrive When time o of 1162 p p. p m. m come Nogi make sleepy home go while I emerge to my bedroom bedroom bedroom bed bed- room expecting tomorrow as usual I light gass What was Buzz Ah Hon Fly where was It I turn my eyesight behind window curtain and In-and and sure enough There Thero stood on one entirely enlarged buzzer washing his front thumbs With expression I borrow slipper from myself and stole forth Crouches Of finally when Hon Fly seem to be looking at his nose I lep lop Bangs Yet he was too soon He Ise flew circular for moments and then when then less expected start expected start to fly outward through door O 0 This escape must not Slightly down own hallway ballway were were- child room child room where Hon Baby Alexander enjoying innocent nightmares That fly fir must not arrive there to sting sUng him with medical diseases If no hero was there to save him who must I must Therefore I rosh cosh forwards with In my Samurai thumbs With talented stroke of match I lit gass Bass 0 O yes There Thero were Hon Fly snuggling in m air right over eyebrow of that Infantile I mako make talented swing to lash him with slipper yet ho were too collusive for me Ero Era I 1 could brush him bim dead he make w wing slippery n motion flew to window curtain where he hide shyly like poets avoiding praise I should get him yet I crouch downly my slipper raised But while I do so so-O so O look Who Vho there Standing In doorway of ot room child I observe Hon Mr Pumphrey Humphrey standing like liko a cold ghost In pajamas And In his right hand finger he be held hellI that enlarged revolver What Is ho he ghastly r 1 I chase ono one In hero I 1 gollup He Ho are now nolY coyl behind curtain curtain cur cur- tam tain n of window Were be he stealing my child him Not yet but maybe I narrate Wait Walt while I shoot ho he narrate while making target movement Ah not I holla Permit me to do so I have killed l several with slippers How is courage ho while I lep leI forwards with heel of ot slipper shoo I collided lIon Hon Fly so certainly that he ho broke and fell amidst dead kicks Prides filled my lungs I reach downly and pick up lIon Hon Fly by fingers I lOr save your our child without expense I naturalize Here Is I 1 Hero Is what he require chewing his breath Hon Fly I reject liko like militia You mean say you approach In hero so so stealthy at midnights for Cor cat catch catchflies catchflies h flies This from rom him with flashes I say Bay it Gre Great Great Scotch ch And And I thought It was a burglar lie say So sorry orry I could not find one I gosp Hon Mrs Pumphrey come como In whilo she fainted tainted away away Next time you c come come me Into my baby's room dont don't do so so she sho Mrs 1 Madam I decry how can you talk so crosswise You tell mo me how slaughter flies files for tor their crimes yet you say scolds when I Ido Ido Ido do so she narrate Midnight Is not time fly Maybe you are enraged because It were not a n burglar I snuggest Yet what is more to have bave In house thana fly A Japanese fool boy Is corrode Hon Mrs Mr In together voice while dejecting defecting me mo out outside of screen door where I still remain feeling quite quito dis- dis I Hoping Hoping- you are the same Yours truly TOGO Copyright b by International Press Bureau |