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' or 'la la 'Ja Ja 'Is Is ' It all rtffht right for forme forme fime me to admire that the.t thet . little Uttle hollow hollowback hollowback hollcback back ol of your knees kneea ' ' ' I loved him himterribly himterribly hiterribly m terribly when he said Is UI It aU all aUright allright tright > , U right But It Its s no use wse te1l1nK telling tellingyourself tellliyourself 'Ourself Ourself yourself ) ' what you re not aotng going goingflunk to tothink tothink think about You think about aboutthat itthat it itthat that much more Probably Probe.bly Probebly . Del- Del Delph1ntI Delphins D Dphlnfe - phlnfe ph1ntI phins knew that She could see seehow seehow aihow how I waa was empty Inside like one onethose of ofthose ofthose those crabs you find on the beach beachShe beachShe beacShe She celebrated my 2lst 21st birthday by bygiving bygiving tgiving ) giving me a ralae raise and sending roe me roeto meto n to -to - do demonstration In ChicagoThat ChicagoThat Chicago ChicagoThat That two years In Chicago ChJcafO ( WtLS was waaComedy a aCOmedy aComedy COmedy Period A little Uttle comedY comedY'WU comedyseas comec was 'WU WU seas ' good load for ( or me Just JU.5t JU5t . then though thoughthere thoughthere thouthere ( ; there v was . s plenty of heartburn wderneath un- un underneath underneath - - derneath ( and I don t mean Just Justwhat Justwhat juwhat what we got from the antlpaato antlputo antipasto at atEnrJco atEnrico iEnrlcoa EnrJco Enrico B a place Like LJke when vstarted we westarted westarted started calling call1ng the apartment the theSchool theSchool tlSchool School for Brides or when Molly Klol pulled the gold lame dress out of ofa ofa i ) f a cedar bag Shed She d saved It all allthat allthat that time the Assembly Asaembly Dress DresJI We Wecovered Wecovered W Wcovered - covered some cushions with it I Iwasn Iwarn - wasn warn t going to let anyone elsewear else elsewear eU e wear ItMolly ItMolly It Molly said of course I I must l1ve live l1vewith livewith 11 ' , . with her and Pat Kenzle In their theirnew theirnew [ . , new place at Tuscan Court fur- fur furnished furn4shed _ - ntshed nished n4shed studios off Michigan Avenue Aven- Aven Avenue - ue with a yard full of stone scutp- scutp sculp- sculp scutptuary sculptuary - - tuary and Enrlcos Enrlco Enrico II s spaghetti joint Jointon I Ion the premises premues It was WQ8 a good goodI goodchance goodchance I on chance tor lor for me to help them out outI outI I I waa was getting 28 a week and I feltbadly felt feltbadly . badly to be paid so much more morethan morethan than those kids All three of u ua uawere l lwere & were at Palmer a s me In the Beau- Beau Beauty Beauty ( . - ty Salon and Molly Mo1ly In Decorating Decoratingand Decoratingand ' ? and Pat had been switched to toStockings toStockings Stockings We had the alarm clock clockIn clockIn . In common but besides that was wasthe wasthe . the team play a troupe of girls girlslearn girlslearn , learn when they live 1lve to together ether We Wecalled Wecalled e called Molly The Madam be- be because because . - cause she rort of took chltl char chBice q 2e , . IIhe bhe IIhesaid bhesaid : g said she ahe was never sure which wh1ch one on onf - - - - was the real Comedy Relief Rellef Pat Pator Pator I or me but of course It 1t was jPat I'at Iat jPatvou I'atyou ' vou you don t get fed so 80 many laughs laughsunless laugrunless laughsunless unless there are men In the p1cture picture p1cturesomewhere picturesomewhere pictui somewhere and Pat had a whole wholerodeo wholerodeo who ! rodeo of them roped tor for beef beefLooking beefLooking bee beeLooking f Looking after her was good train trainlng trainIng Ing lng In what you might mlght call stratf strate strategy strategy gy though once and a while whlle It Itwould itwould t , would ' get Q'et Qet tiresome sitting throug through througha ja throughja a movie because Pat wanted \ to toentertain toentertain entertain a boy friend at the home- home homestead homestead homt - . - stead Naturally we developed theusual the theusual tli usual forms of female tact tad if Pat Pathad Pathad P , had . a . special .spedal spedal Date on hand Mol- Mol Molly Molly Moi - - ly and I would come Into the livingroom living livingroom g room wearing wrappers or hair haircurlers haircurlers , - curlers or cold cream anything at atall atall i all . ao .tIO tIO so aa as to look homely If any anyone anyone ar one of us was out In the evening eveningshe eveningshe evenir she had sense enough to phone phonebefore phonebefore before coming home just In hi case caseWe caseWe We took turns on cooking andmarketing and andmarketing marketing and the ironing board boardand boardand boa.i boai . and In the bed department We Weslept Weslept slept In rotation two to in the big bigDouble bigDouble b : Double Murphy and one on the thedavenport thedavenport davenportI davenport davenportSome Some of the best beat evenings that thatwinter thatwinter th < I winter were when Molly and andwould I II Iwould Iwould would sit by the fire and get on onwith onwith owith I with our knitting knttUng while pat was wasI wasmoat w wmost I most moat . likely llkely out dancing at the theIvanhoe theIvanhoe tfiIvanhoe Ivanhoe her favorite place to glvt give giveswains gi\swains gi swains \ " wains swains a workout I liked l1ked the theIvanhoe thIvanhoe I ; Ivanhoe too on account of the Sir SirWalter SirWalter SlWalter , Walter Scott decorations which whichmade wnicmade : made me think of the Lady of the the'Lake theLake thLake 'Lake Lake ' but Molly and I were In Inhomekeeping a ahomekeeping ahomekeeping homekeeping spell It wa-s wa s was - goodto good goodto gooto to be able to talk Wk to somebody somebodyabout somebodyabout somebodabout about Wyn but I wouldn t tell telleven telleven teeven even Molly very far under the thesurtace thesurface thsurface thsurfaceMao surtace surface surtaceMac surfaceMao Mao Mac sent me a clipping from the theLedger theLedger inLedger Ledger when Wyn W'yn Won ' got married marriedthat marriedthat marrlethat that spring I could of got alongwithout along alongwithout alonwithout without knowing the exact date dateguess I Iguess Iguess guess Ronnie got the Eight of Stirerything Ev Stir Everything Everything erything and not plated either eitherBut eitherBut eitheBut But I was thinking after afler I saw sawI sawthose sa'those sathose ' I those lovely kida kid kids & . In the station stationwagon stationwagon staticwagon wagon I wonder wondt"r wondtr " If a nice girl likE likeRonnie llkRonnie p ' Ronnie hasn t t slowed up the Strafford Straf Strafford Stralford ford family tor lor for quite a few gener generat10l1 generatlons generatloris at10l1 atlons Just because she s e a nice nicewell nicewell nicwell well bred girl and nothing else elseMark elseMark els elsMark < Mark tells me something about aboutthe aboutthe abotthe the cross-pattern cross pattern - - - of the genes It Itsounds Itsounds 1sounds sounds eeny meeny miny mlny many mo l1ke like l1kecountLng likecounting llkcounting countLng counting stitches when you turn turnthe turnthe turthe the heel of a & sock Still SUll Sttll and all all1f al [ I was a I d like to knit -It It - some genes IntoIt Into It that wants to tc toget tcget tcget get somewhere Wyn s genes had hada hada hada a little hankeruig hanker1ng hankering that way they theycould theycould the thecould > could have been taken places Now NowI NowI NowI I wouldn t be surprised surpr18ed If the family fami family tajnlly ly will wUl have to wait walt for Wynnewood WynnewoodStratford WynnewoodStrafford WynnewoodStraftord Stratford Strafford XII They 11 Il get along alongIn alongin alongIn In the meantime with pink coats coatsand coatsand coatsand and jodspurs jodapurs Jodepurs JodepursWhat jodspursWhat What was Important Importan t Molly and andme andme andme me got a day off ort to go down to toManitou toManltou toManltou Manitou Manltou to see the class clWiS graduate graduateat at college They were a solemn solemnlook1t1g solemnlooking solemnlooking look1t1g looking crowd It was a funeralcompared funeral funeralcompared funeralcompared compared to the high school show showIn showin showIn In 82 I was In a mixed mood moodpartly moodpartly moodpartly partly showing off oft because I 1 wasa was wasI wasa I a Creer Woman and a Skin You YouI YouLovt YouLove YouLove I Lovt Love " to Touch partly I had an in 1n infE'rlorlty 1nferiority Inferlorlty fE'rlorlty fErlorlty feriority ' because beooU6e I figured those thosekids thosekids thosekids kids had something I Il.ould I \ . would \l.ould l.ould never neverget neverget neverget get I wanted to hear the Bacca Baccalaurt'ate Baccalaureate Baccalaureate laurt'ate laurtate laureate ' which whlch I thought would wouldwit wouldsum < ; um wit up the whole of the college colleget"ducaUon collegeeducation collegeeducation t"ducaUon tducaUon education " and I could make out outwhere outwhere outwhere where I ( d (1 1 been be"n ben ! " soldshort sold wId short I 1 gut'SS gutSS guess gut'SSthe guessthe gue&sthe guesthe ' & the kids kl(1s kl1s ( in the cl&ss clss class & had been bt"en bten " too too1st toostupefied toostupefied stupefied upt"Ht"d uptHtd " " by Commencement Commencemen t hoop hoopla hoopla 1st Ila hoopIla la tol.ocry to \ . worry \l.ocry l.ocry much but Molly Mollj and anderE andI I \ were \\erE erE ' all aU fresh from a long re'it reit rest re'it.J restful restful ' ful ride on the train traln and ourminds our ourminds ourJ .J J . .Jful minds were wide openUncle open openUncle Uncle and Rnd Auntie had some of ofthe ofthe ofthe I IUncle the old gang up to ThanksglIng Thanksghing ThanksghingAvenue Thanksgl\ Thanksgl ThanksgivingAvenue \ Ing IngI IngAt"nue A\t"nue A t"nue tnue Avenue \ " for a porch supper Itl.as It \l.as l.as was l.astoo wastoo \ . wastoo ' I too bad bRd not to see st"t stt " " polite old Pat PatIt'ihells Pattyshells Pat4 tyshells ) ' shells he alwavs alv.as alvas always . ) thumped thumpf'd thumpfd ' his histail histall ' It'ihells Itihells tall tail hl'iltall talltt"1l \ wien \\tt"1l tt"1l tt1l wten " people peoplt " laughed laught"d laughtd " VncJt Uncle Unclewas UncleI hl'il hlil " I I1 \ v\a.s va.s v a.s as \\1\ 1 was \ 1II \ . . < ; li II 0 fli fII fir e r a sprlt sprits < ; because bffause he had hadII hadti hadi tt II ti a e ! 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I J < ; ised t"d td " to Imagine he was my myc mySwedish myswedtslt c , swedtslt . t"dl tdl " h Cn\ Cn Cnvaller Cnal1er Cnsaller \ al1er He d 8 given up upi I l Is idea ldra of being bt"lng btlng " General In com corn corni 1 i ai III ar d of the army and wus was wasl.ork \l.ork l.ork work \ . workli workit 111 it K I g { it II the tht " " > State tate Dairy School He Hev Hewas Hewa.s Hewas v . was a . . f ( 11 of ' some 1omt ' new Idea that thatwo that19.0 that190 10 wo ' " . i 1 pi the tht " milk mllk round In a aI adl ach a.hu-n a.hun a.hu ahu n I | dl ch ( . un irn - intll mtll nrtil It was all homeopathic homeopathicr r hi h l ( i r iogei lOge roger I t"Ou tOu " eons ' ! or ; something oomethlng That ThatI That"ould Thatwould Thatwould "ould ould would " make malt " it the same all the thel.a thewas tliewav I \l.a\ l.a was l.athrough \ . \ through and no Top of the thelk theBottle theBittle lk Bottle ttlt " What forl.ould for \ . would \l.ould l.ould they wantdo wantdo want wantdo do a aI away \I I \ . ay ayl.1th \ . with \l.1th l.1th the Top of theBottle the theBottle ottlt Bottle " I 1 asked It s the only part partt partl l 1 at s 8 any fun II He lie . hadn t thought thoughtof of tl t ! at Good old Bernie I bet b bthis } > ) this t1us time he hes s accumulated an QW aw QWful awful awful ful lot of U things ngs he hasn t thought thoughtof of " > Socially ocla11y there 11 always alwas } be beTop beTop beTop Top of the Bottle and poor Bemlt Bernie BemltI Berniewen Berniewen " \I I \ . wen en t be among those presentThl presentThe present presentThe The Thl " on on1cho one ( ' \ who \1\cho 1 cho will w111 be Is Fedoi FedOl Fedor I II Ion Iwont Iwont I \\on on wont \ t make cracks at college collt"lt colltlt " ( ' t"duat eduat " edu t"du tdu eduit at ( it ng rig when I 1 see what tt It did dLd lor for lorI lorhim forhim torhim him ItI It \I I \ . was as grand to find nnd one ofP ofe of ofe I e P Icid kid on ou co cc ild lId rid ' really rt'ally rtally talk to toHI toHe toHe HI He ' told me mt ' he d made madt ' a switch swlth ( : In ln lnIS inis Inis is st studies udles been bt"en bten " doing p-v p v p"t pt p-e e ' " - - med1cal medical medicaland med1call1.nd medicalind l1.nd l1nd l1.ndl.a.e and . \ . was \l.a.e la.e l.a.e lae . ; going goLng to study studs stud " doctoring doctoringn n Chicago Account ACun1 ( ' : ) of his hL . " , alu'TIlnum aluminum alu aluninum ninum 'TIlnum TIlnum minum ' leg It'g Itg ' hel.ouldn he \ . wouldn \l.ouldn l.ouldn t be so good goodor goodor goodor or regular practice pnctlce bi bl t i t he had ahan ahan a asts han e a to research In 1n1ant lnfant paral paral'ils paralsts ' sts 'ils ils He t toU told < > 11 roe lue me a R lot ot of lnterest interest lnterest1nb interesttrig Interesting 1nb trig dope about relative relathe relatise mortal1 mortals mortalsties mortal1tle mortalltie tle ties < and end what could be done by byredio byradio byradio redio radio & wive W'e We wave ' ' and massage and so on onHe onlie onHe He lie said E2Lld taid one thing t.h1ng th1ng . that came rbfbt right rbfbta"o rightao rightaid a"o ao a-o a o " - hum hur-It hur It hurt - up Its hat to in my m1ndKitt:7 mindKitty tnind m1nd mind tnindKitty Kitty Kitt:7 Kitt7 : you're youre you'ye youye yqutire ' ' got wonderful hands handsror handsfor handsfor ror for massage D1&SS D1SS & " " I hadn t t tbouCbt thought tbouCbtabout thoughtabout thoughtabout about It before but I guess guesa th the , I I I ' , : ' I . 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