DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
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apiece to get 'em published. A feller in Boston<br />
charged him that much, he said. It seems he would<br />
go along fur years, raking and scraping of his money<br />
together, so as to get enough ahead to get out another<br />
book. Each time he had his hopes the big newspapers<br />
would mebby pay some attention to it, and<br />
he would get recognized.<br />
"But they never did," said the old man, kind of<br />
sad, "it always fell flat."<br />
"Why, FATHER!"--the old lady begins, and finishes<br />
by running back into the house agin. She is out<br />
in a minute with a clipping from a newspaper and<br />
hands it over to Doctor Kirby, as proud as a kid<br />
with copper-toed boots. The doctor reads it all<br />
the way through, and then he hands it back without<br />
saying a word. The old lady goes away to fiddle<br />
around about the housework purty soon and the<br />
old man looks at the doctor and says:<br />
"Well, you see, don't you?"<br />
"Yes," says the doctor, very gentle.<br />
"I wouldn't have HER know for the world," says<br />
Daddy Withers. "_I_ know and YOU know that newspaper<br />
piece is just simply poking fun at my poetry,<br />
and making a fool of me, the whole way through.<br />
As soon as I read it over careful I saw it wasn't<br />
really praise, though there was a minute or two I<br />
thought my recognition had come. But SHE don't<br />
know it ain't serious from start to finish. SHE was<br />
all-mighty pleased when that piece come out in<br />
print. And I don't intend she ever shall know it<br />
ain't real praise."<br />
His wife was so proud when that piece come out<br />
in that New York paper, he said, she cried over it.<br />
She said now she was glad they had been doing<br />
without things fur years and years so they could<br />
get them little books printed, one after the other,<br />
fur now fame was coming. But sometimes, Daddy<br />
Withers says, he suspicions she really knows he has<br />
been made a fool of, and is pertending not to see it,