Fred Gross Stories quotes

But may be by the 1 of march the house will be so as we can stick the furnitur in it but I dont know & they got me worred & the archateck aint worrying at all tho thats what he gets payed for.

I give him $100 to worry for me & then I take his job a way from him.

If it would do me any good to go out to that contrackters house & brake his jaw I would do it but what would that get me. Nothing.

But the kids seems to be havein’ a h-ell of a time espeshaly little Ed. &

Grace is running a round like a chicken with there head off & tickled to death so what kick have I got comeing

even if I owe more money then I’ll ever see & my hares turned gray & the papers is paning the life out of the dept. because theys 1 or 2 stick up men a round town.

I mean wear the fish for building a house.

Suckers see Charley.

An other good thing all the wood that was left over from building the house is down in the basemunt & Grace has been useing it up pretty fast building fires in the fire place all tho its been so hot outdoors & in the …

Hamilton have did any thing against the law or the Carpenters nether & Grace says what do you mean & Mr. Hamilton says what do you mean yourself comeing a round trying to pry in to some bodys affares.

We aint use to receiving calls from female detectives.

& then all of a sudden Grace caught on to what was he getting at.

and me all ready sick & tired of winter and wisht spring was here all ready but of corse they aint no chanct of real good weather for 4 mos. & a mans waisting time when you wish for some thing they cant have.

If it done any good to wish I would be chief of police all ready and geting the big money.

Well Charley when you move out in a subburb they aint no chanct for a man to spend a quite evning at home onct in a wile because theys some thing doing evry minut out here ether Co.

for it like hed half to pay in a garden only when he was helping him self to our beer he wouldent half to tip no rotten waiters.

I guess Grace thinks wear runing the county hospitle or some thing.

Well Charley I hope you & the Mrs. is getting a long OK & standing the bad weather OK & I guess they must get more for postige stamps in N.Y.

and today because Im still so sore yet that I cant hardily talk to no body and if it wasent like picking on a baby I would go over to Hamiltons house right now and bust his big nose for him.

I dont half to tell you Charley that I dident never take a nickle that wasent comeing to me

and the only thing I ever got from stick up men was abuse and thats because I been after them all iny life and if it wasent for me theyd brake in to the mayors house wile he was eating his lunch and steal the …

… says we should ought to posepone the party and have it some other night but Grace says she was threw with partys and I says the next 1 that says some thing to me a bout a party would get a crack in the jaw.

Thats what a man gets for not bean no cheap skate Charley

and if I had of been a cheap skate and left the light off on the front porch like Hamilton done the cheap stiff the 1st peopl that got there wouldent of saw the krape and would of rang the door bell and then ether …

Im threw Charley and the next man that gives me a tip on the stock markit I will tip them hay Charley.

I will tip them over on there ear.

Well Charley theys no coal in the basemunt and I owe the chief $200.00 and xmas is comeing and the 1 of Jan.

god knows I need new close to Charley but they aint no chance of me getting them unlest the chief sends me back to travvleing beat and gives me a uniform.

Dont look for nothing from us this xmas Charley unlest its a invatation to my funaral.

Grace got a letter from her old man and hes comeing down from Milwaukee to spend a wk. with us. Thats a bout all as he will spend is a wk.

Your Bro. F. A. Gross.

Give me what this here Swift Six has cost me all ready Charley and I will sell it to you fob Chicago and no questions ast.

Im staying home this a.m. and Grace called the chief up and told him I was sick and when she told him that she wasent springing no automobile story but she was telling him the truth.

I stood out there getting a little wetter then I was and then finely I turned a round and went in to the front part of the salloon to phone headquarters and standing up to the bar was a big turk policeman.

You certainly take good care of your beat I says.

So he ast me what was the trouble and I told him and who I was and he was scarred pretty bad but that dident get me nothing so I called him every thing I could lay tungue to and then I phoned the chief …

figgureing out how much that there car cost all together and I got it figgured where it stands me $849.00 and that includs the garrage Im building and the storage and the repairs and gasoline and lisence and robes and etc.

A fine investmunt that was hay Charley

and I guess Grace will know enough next time to try and save her money and not go splurgeing on pianos and cars and stuff that they cant nobody aford unlest there millionares.

and you dont half to pour water in them all the wile to keep them from catching on fire and they dont take no gasoline or they dont get stalled in the middle of a st. car track.

And you dont half to build no new garrage to keep them in because theys plenty of rm. for them right in the house.

Kindest to both you and Mary.

Yes he says, but that isent counting the times you did not hit the ball at all. Then he told me you had to count them too.

How is that Chas. for a game where you count a strike every time you hit at the ball if you hit it or dont hit it.

You see the idea of the game is to knock the ball in to all 9 of the holes without takeing no more strikes than necessary and the man that takes the least strikes wins the game.

So I says Whos vacation am I spending yours or mine.

All your life is just 1 long vacation you and the kids both.

Yes, she says, and I would like to see you take care of the house and the kids and cook 3 meals a day for 5 people and think you was haveing a vacation.