Show eang LIFE TT OHN HM Y y georgiev floret john henry gets a present AYI did you ever dream you were S SAY going to got get a wonderful christmas gift from a rich relation and wake up in the icehouse friend wife and I 1 are not mercenary but wo we did have a hunch bunch that uncle peter would slip us ua an onyx clock ath which we could hide the knotholes knot holes in our phoney mantelpiece or an amethyst ash tray which we could use as a bathtub for the canary but nothing doings it was a sad blow to us that christmas morning because the old boy la Is upholstered with coin lie ile owns all the eagles on the gold pieces lie ile has pet names for them and keeps them colored up like a flock of at chickens and all he sent us was a book worth sixty cents net written by a pretzel pen pusher named nam ed I 1 wanted to throw it out the window at a driver engaged in exercising his bla engine for the benefit of those tn in the he neighborhood who were wera sleeping late on christmas morning but peaches had her shoes and stockings oft off and was wading through the first chapter the book she informed me was a series of essays on reincarnation can you tie that tor for a christmas present from a man to whom money comes crying like a child and begs to bo be put to steel sleep in his safety deposit vaults a alts reincarnation Is da a long loose look ing word and to eo a perfect stranger it liny has a slightly suspicious sound but its bark Is than its bite aker after reading about halt a gallon of theories peaches began to bite her nails and make faces like a highbrow highbrown high brow ille he idea of a person having been somebody body else in a previous existence Is interesting it john she burg gurgled led 1 I wonder who I 1 was you appeared first as the queen of sheba I 1 told her ber and after chasing iring king solomon salomon up it a sycamore tree you disappeared for several centuries and then you slipped into his torys moving pictures as cleopatra and ive a doggone good mind to divorce you for or tho the way you carried on with marc antony oh tush giggled peaches have same sense who do you think hep hardy was heal I 1 datil why rep hep originally was a katydid or a tree toad probably both later on he appeared as a dancing dervis hand and made wc weekly ekly pilgrimages 9 gr mages to mecca to nil fill himself and 60 the e goatskin with grupe grape then he dropped out for or several hundred years to get a new set of watertight compartments part ments and finally reappeared as joe morgan in ten nights in a barroom anches and hos beon been playing that ever since 1 I dont see aeo why you cant take this seriously she pouted herr helfen helfeno helfens hel bel fens book asvery is very wonderful so Is a swiss cheese sandwich I 1 ventured did you ever stop to think how wonderful those holes are in a see what surprises lay hiding biding in tho the fee chest first essay david kept his boot heel on the neck of ahn fallen goliath and laughed gleaso atly are you all in int david da ald inquired after a ruse r use 1 I refuse to speak until you take your spurs out of at my ace replied the david at once showed his obliging nature we shall meet again goliath replied hoarsely not if I 1 see you forstl said 1 I will take good care that you dont chuckled the expiring giant jiow illow was davids it will be in the iho far aar far future said eald the giant you will then be one of the common people walking in the streets and you david asked 1 I will be a chauffeur on a smoke wagon and what I 1 will do to io you will bo be a pitiful shame responded the giant then with a bitter laugh the triumphant um pliant goliath turned over and pushed his mortal coll boll off the shuffleboard beconi essay tho the ghost of julius caesar looked threateningly at brutus the Stab bist brutus sneered you he said eald to the min mines eal not brie one of caesara caesars Cae sars muscles frad crad brutus used a chort sharp laugh you lie he said on your wayll way caesar never batted an eyelash brutus pointed to td the rear go way back ile he said and use your laziness caesar pulled ilia his toga up over his cold shoulder brutus laughed again and it was the tha saucy triumphant laugh of 0 th man who dodges in front of at a woman and grabs a seat on the elevated railroad the next time we meet you boit will not do toe me as you did me at t the he base of at pompeys Pom statue said the ghost of at caesar speaking for or the first time since ve We began this essay we will not meet again because I 1 refuse to associate with you said brutus ciesar caesar smiled but it was without mil lit and as cold as the notice ot of suspension on the door of a bank yes we will meet again said caesar sar where said brutus in the far far future said the ghost of caesar you will be born into the world again by that tinie time and in your now personality you yau will be one ot of the common people and you will burn gas and you inquired brutus 1 I 1 will be the spirit which puts the wheels in the gas meter and may heaven have mercy on your pocketbook shrieked the ghost ot of caesar baesa r brutus took a fit and used it for AW ut t 01 are you all antl david Inqui inquired redi after a baure 11 swiss choose how did they get there T you dont find and them tn in a camembert do you peaches put up the storm signals and burned me with a baleful gaall glaidie 0 1 its easy enough to make tun fun of so something you boti cant do yourself she aho snapped we were on the verge of our first quarrel and all on account of an old german dope peddler but it was up to me not to hoist the white flag it we were to live happily ever after why little bright eyes I 1 said the easiest I 1 do writ inq ap essays on reincarnation iq 1 where I 1 lve live I 1 can put old oscar sauer kraut to sleep because I 1 have bare the punch in every paragraph pai graph wheres my lay fountain pen ill abow youl Inde indeed edl was all she said ae aa she bile flounced out rc the room so 60 it was up ap to roe mo lu make good as in an essayist r oreter forever lose the title of captain so I 1 dashed off the following glob lies ilea of thought luit latt them on the cen isk i table tabia bi miro to flad hem eni id magl abbe bifid d into the kitchen to many minutes but the ghost kept on aari kingan kIng la jn the latin longue third encsy napoleon stood and wailing ailing and bas eyet eyebrows rows on iha battlefield of at waterloo he was waiting for or the moving plo pic wre tura nun man to set get hla his photograph flis flie victorious wellington made his appearance laughing loudly iz in his hia sleeve alcove back nips back to the boulevard des dea dabol commanded wei lington napoleon nai oleon put lils bis chin on hla wishbone and spoke no word you said wellington you to tho champs erzal this Ps li tny victory and you must leave the tha battlefield it lla Is time to close up for the night bight 0 we will meet agal milord an vapoleon M leau NI te MPA bong bang sheil what does doea that mean asked wellington it means meana that the next time w wp sl wll tn jo ae swiped ed napoleon and ana when will a III that be inquired wellington laughing loudly 11 in the far far future replied the title little corporal you will then ten bd 0 one ne of the tha common people and what will you be wellington asked 1 41 I 1 shall be spirit of the high cost of at living and I 1 shall gnaw at your pocketbook until your appetite becomes a burden unbearable don dan coir mes mea enfante du then the little corporal called a cab and left wellington flat on the battlefield when I 1 came back bach from the kitchen I 1 found peaches in tile the front room hugging Helfen helfen to her heart and laughing her yellow head off like it I 1 asked swelling up with the pride of authorship look she spluttered splutter ed between laughs look john uncle petera peter a dear old boxt lie ile wanted us to rend this book and find the real christmas present look here on page he has neatly attached a thin little check for a thousand dollars barst lie he a darling its ita worth that to read pages of at Helfen helfen I 1 squawked to a cover my confusion some uncle that old boy and I 1 take back anything I 1 may have said about zvy look johnl johni uncle peter s dear old fox him in those dark moments befort Helfen helfen camo came across with th cush after we sat eat there for two hour spending the money I 1 asked how roy homemade essays atack sti clied ed ui I 1 with th the german importations 11 wb abar essays I 1 she inquired blank ly why I 1 left them here on the table isaid I 1 said oh ob that I 1 she cloea booe d 1 I thought t that list was a letter of apology so I 1 threw it in the wastebasket without reading it because an apology necessary necessary she the limit in imported chiffon I 1 ask ash you |