Argosy All-Story Weekly, May 3, 1924 — page 119: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE FAMILY ALBUM. ‘And you'll forget all about what that false friend done to you?” ‘T ain’t saying I'll forget it exactly; but T’ll lay off him. You’ve showed me it don’t pay. The chief and the parson up to the big house told me about the same thing, but they didn’t put it across like you did.” She told him where to find the village depot, and that there would be a local along in about an hour.. Five minutes later, stand- ing in her open doorway, lamp in hand, she watched him fading into the night, going west, His shrill whistling came to her long after he had merged into the gloom—a whistle born of warm, dry clothes, and ham and eggs, and a changed viewpoint. U Lv} 909 Then Miss Ellen Prime shut the door, and returned to her cozy little parlor, and, with one hand on the old album, she closed her eyes, her lips moving. “Oh, Lord,” she whispered, ‘I don’t ask to be forgiven for all the whoppers I told to-night; but I do pray that wherever the souls of them good, pious men folks of mine is, they may never know nothing about it! Only grant this, and I’ll bear any punishment You see fit to put upon me!” Then she sat down under the lamp, re- opened her book at its marked page, and began to read from ‘‘ What Every Mother Should Know About Her Child.” U THE DINKINS TWINS HE Dinkins twins were just alike as far as features went, But really they were diff’rent as the two sides of a cent. For instance, Jim was quick as light in everything he learned, While many nights slow, plodding Joe the midnight candle burned. But though Jim got his learning quick, he shed it like a duck, While Joe, when he got anything—t stuck! You’d start explaining things to Jim. He’d see them right away. He’d seem to eat the details up before you’d had your say; While Joe—well, when you talked to him, you had to write it down, And even then it was a task to drive it through his crown! Yes, Jim would get it fast, and then—forget it just as quick, While Joe—well, when he got it once—’fwould stick! Jim’s brain was dancing all the time. He’d hatch a brilliant scheme, And start to work, but halfway through he’d get another dream! But Joe, in case he had a thought, would mull a month or two; Then, when he went to work it out, he’d always see it through! Yes, Jim would start a-whooping, and he’d quit about as quick, While Joe—when he began.a job—/e’d stick! Jim always made his money just as easy as could be, But “ easy come and easy go!”’ He blew his earnings free, While Joe, who had to dig for his from early morn till night, Would straightway put it in the bank, and guard it good and tight. Now, brilliant Jim’s employed by Joe, and kicks about his “ luck,”’ While Joe—well, he’s well fixed, because—he stuck! Paul West. COMIGD OOo! (©