Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1920 — Peanut Pietro [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Peanut Pietro

by KAYEM GRIER

SEENSE da prohiblsh starta work steady job everyttng losa de keek now. I tink een bouta seexa mont even da chorus girl losa da keek, too. Lasa week I was een one place wot’s been prohiblsh longa time. I see one frien I gotta een dat place and he aska me weeth wheesper eef I Ilka leetle shot. Now I no feel a ver good een dat place so I say, “alia right, jusa one leetle shot.” So he getta bottle fromda bootaleg and I tink was fiva, seexa mule een one dreenk- My frien say was only one leetle shot, but was jusa Ilka machine gun—keepa -right on shoot. I aska my frien eef alia bootaleg ees stronga lika dat one and he say no. He tella me when was made lasa night ees pretty stronga today, but when was made lasa week ees preety gooda stuff een dry town. I tink eef we ever haya one more war we senda tree, four bootaleg out for da enemy and he go dead preety queeck. My brudda Sylvest ees stronga man alia right. He maka wrestle for da leevlng and I betta you seexa bit one little dreenk bootaleg wheesky putta heem down. Dat stuff my frien geeva me would maka T. N. T.looka seeck. Weeth gooda stuff before prohiblsh we could somatime hava leetle blowout. But weeth da bootaleg dreenk wot we gotta now ees stronga for blowup and no gooda for blowout. Wot you tink?