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Show I LITTLR BENNY'S j Note Book By LEE PAPE I ' Pop started a fire In the furnace be .fore he went down (own this morning. ,on account of having bin saying hp i was going to for Tbout U weeks, and , there was smoak in he house all day i making me and ma and O'lr cook Nora . and my sister Gladdis cawff as if w ' had cawffs. and wen pop rarae home he sed, Well fokes. iiowa the fire? The fires all -ite, but !m not, Ive bin fairly cawffing my hed off all lay 'with the smoak, sed ma. i Nonsents, I flitter myself I can i make a furnace fire without smoak. n, up ihf house, sd pop. You sertny do flatter yourseU it you think that, oed ma. And she cawffed 3 cawffs, saying. See, Im cawffing now. Enybody can cawff if try want to. I sed pop. ! 1 bin cawffing i lot too. pop. I sed You jest Imagine vcu have, sed pop. And we went in to suppir, :iop saying. ! You dont heer me "awffing. do you. if theres anything 10 cawff about W .iint 1 cawffing? lm oniv numan as. iama s everybody cits. And he kepp on eati ? uhout cawffing, and me and ma tnd Claddi.-kepp Claddi.-kepp on mating and awftlnc. acd a'te: suppir pop went up In i.e setting room, and he hadent cawffad yet, paying. pay-ing. 1 aeer herd su'ch a hullabaloo about nuthing :it all. if vou pecp' reely had sumthing to cawff about I dont know ;'t w mid become of on Wich jest then ho cawffed 4 cawff-; himself, looking serprlzf-d is enyth'nf. and ma sed, Wy, Willyum, wat are you doing, you cant be cawffing, ran ru ! Saying it sourcas: .ind Gladdis sed Hee hee, father, tbats on-1 on you. all rite. And pop cawffed 3 more cawffs, and I sed. You dident think ycu waa going to cawff. did you, pop? You dident think you were going to get a smock, did you? sed pop. And he ga e me a kraclt sumware with his hand, saying, Im cawffing because theres sumthing iu m thr int. Smoak, sed ma. And pjp kepp on cawffing short caw.fs, wlc -r time he did me and ma and Orladdls lafred and after a wile pop sed, j aff to your harts content. Id ,;tay hone and 'aff with you if I dident have m ingage ment And he went out 'awfflng 1 cawffs, and me and ma and Glac'di-went Glac'di-went to the movies so we wouldenl haff to cawff eny luorc ouielfs mi |