Well the day before yesterday he was reading 1 of the letters he got from this baby 5 or 6 wks. ago on acct. of not haveing nothing better to read and he left the envelope lay on the floor and I was going to hand it back to him but I happened to think that yesterday would be April Fool so I kept a hold of the envelope and I got a piece of paper and wrote April Fool on it and stuck it in the envelope and fixed it up so as it would look like a new letter and I handed it to him yesterday like it was mail that had only just came for him and you ought to see him when he tore it open and didnât find nothing only April Fool in it. At first he couldnât say nothing but finely he says âThatâs some comedy Keefe. You ought to be a end man in the stretcher bearers minstrelsâ and he didnât crack a smile so I said âWhatâs the matter with you canât you take a joke?â So he said âWhat I would like to take is a crack at your jaw.â So I said âWell itâs to bad your arms is both paralyzed.â Well Al theyâs nothing the matter with his arms and I was just kidding him because as far as him hitting anybody is conserned I was just as safe as the
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