Providence Technical High School - Review Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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76 THE TECH REVIEW 1928 Read Letter Day By Ruth C. Hussey, ’29 While rummaging one dull, rainy day up in the attic, in hoj e that I should find some trinket or book that 1 hadn’t noticed before, I found in among some essays and note books, some letters. They were written in a childish scrawl and addressed to someone who, after a little thought, 1 decided must have been my great uncle George. The paper was yellow and the ink faded. The creases were worn from having been folded again and again. I sat down on the nearest trunk and read them, while the rain pattered cozily on the roof, until it became too dark to dis- cern the letters. They had evidently been written by my father when he was a little boy to his uncle and namesake “Uncle George.” 1 thought as I read them they were too good to keep to myself and so 1 have copied the most interesting ones for you to read. May 15 Monday Dear Uncle George, I am up in bed writin to you an its oncy 6 oclock. It was like this. This after- noon mom called me in an sed I hat to go over to Miss Kenedeys with some durn recepe or sumthin so I did. Well I got over there an lo an behole she was all drest up an looked swell for her her being 40 an kinda skinny. She sed thank you for the recepe andid I wunt eny cookies an a nice glast of lemonade. 1 told her, yes ma’am thank you kindly ma’am, I didint ferget my manners not one whit. She must a been expecting comjxuiy cause she was all dolled up an had stuff to eat and flowers in the vase. She went to get the eats an everything was perfect so far as I was concern sept I didint know what to do with my gum, cause I can’t eat and chew to the same time, so I put it on the arm of the chair ware 1 wooden ferget it. Well 1 bed the cats an then went home. I kinda like Miss Kenedy, her having a cat an two kittens not count in the one she gave me. Its under the close with me now, purrin contented like, me giving it halft my milk for supper. Mom don’t know I got it, I ain’t dast tell her yet, her bein kinda mad any how cause a while ago Miss Kenedy came over red in the face an ast to see thet boy, an she talked an sniffed an blowed a while an finally she sed something about gum an then an there 1 decided to kinda skip over my back fenct into Billys yard, but mom thought differ- ent I guess cause she grabbed me. An Miss Kencdv went on about, He’ll never call again now, she sed, him getting all over gum, she sed, an me trying to get him for 6 solid y—oh I mean—I mean— an mom looked at me severe like an hur- ried Miss Kenedy out an sent me to bed double quick time. Afterwoods she came up an I ast her could I write to you an she said yes an when she went out I herd a little noise at sounded like a snicker to me. Well good by Your lovin nefew George P. S. I’ll l e 10 a week from tomarrer. June fers Dear Uncle George, There’s some new people moved in on our street and mom ses there in pretty good circumstances from all the furniture she saw go in there. Well las nite the guy what belongs there came over to see my sister Marge an Marge was busy up stairs curlin her hair an putting stuff on her face so she sed

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1928 THE TECH REVIEW 75 but Egbert’s wooden feet insisted on float- son in the village attended his funeral an’ in’ an’ bis head, being made o' different y’ never herd sich weepin’ in all yer life, material, insisted on sinkin; so poor Eg- Yes, sir. Egbert was some cat. Pass thet bert jest natcherly drounded. Every per- cider.”

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1928 THE TECH REVIEW Georgie you go on down an intertane Mr. Drinkwater. Drinkwater! What a funny name I yells out an she quick tole me to shut up an do as she sed so 1 did. When I came in he got up outen the chair all smily an rosy. I guess lie thought L was Marge at first. Then he looks at me an ses Ah you mus be the little Georgie I’ve heard so much about. An I sed yes sir wats your name an he sed Benjamin Drinkwater an I sed thats a mouthful awright aint it an 1 tole him 1 had a rabbit named Benny onct. My sisters got a crush on you 1 guess, I sed, cause she never spent so much time dollin up for no one man before. She sed she’d like you even better if you want quite so bow legged. An then I quick remembered that want ezackly bein polite an told him kinda liked bow legs myself. Pretty soon Marge came down an her an Benny went out on the poarch an set in the swing. I wen out to an finally Benny gave me a dime to go buy some candy an take my time. Afterwoods 1 came back an set in the livin room window where it was nice an cool an quiet an then 1 remembered they were out on the poarch an I could see them right under my nose. Well they was just talkin an swinging an sitting there. Say what does a guy see in hang- ing around a girl all evening—gosh darn if I know. There silly! Well anyhow I kinda sat there musin, when suddenly I saw something that made me say, Clinch! Well I never incut to say it, it just came out. I guess Marge was kinda mad cause the next day she wooden hardely speak to me an told mom something had to be done with that boy! Benny has a swell lookin sister with curly hair an a little dog but I ain’t inter- 77 ested in gurls a tall. I’ll write again soon. Love, George P. S.—Mom sed for me to tell you thanks for the swell birthday present. June 18, Sunday Dear Uncle George, Oh boy school will soon be over an then wunt I hev fun. Us fellers have already planned what we are goin to do. Per one thing we’ve got a swell club started an I'm president. We’ve got a pretty neet club houst too. Its got two rooms an a oil lamp an a ole cake box for things to eat an a secret passage under the floor which is wooden. We didn’t build it all ourselves. Most of it was al- ready built by some fellers oldern as what we are, but we painted it green an tarpa- pered it an fixt it to suit ourselves. Its right up against a tree which has a orning attached onto it an is over the door an you can pull a string an it goes up an down, the orning I mean. We hev a mat in front of the door an a rain spout an a trough for the rain water to go in so it wunt leek into the hut on rainy days. Most every staturday night we buy hot dogs an can beans an hev supper up there. Its dandy and cool in the grass, nevery- thing. We hev another kitten now an we take turns keeping it over sundeys. Today it was my turn an mom sed she lied nough to do thout takin care of that ole cat so I kep him up in my room for a wile, but he jumped on the table an knocked over the lamp an broke the chimbly an spilt the oil, so I let him out an after a while mom found him on the kitchen table eatin the samon we was goin to hev fer a sal- ade, an mom sed she want going to eat after any cat, an after, jus for spite I bet, he broke her blue-green vase. But termorrows Monday an he is so cunnin an fuzzy.