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Show IN YOUTH'S GAY SPRINGTIME Incident of Innocent Pleasure That Excited the Admiration of Gap Johnson. "It shore does a teller good to see the innocent pleasure children get out of the coming of spring!" said Gap Johnson of Itumpus Iiidge. "The first right warm day most of my young 'tins swarmed, as you might say. Wife took and ripped 'em out of their underclothes under-clothes that she'd sewed 'em up in last fall, and the.v hit the path for the creek, scratching and cussing merrily. mer-rily. "They found there seven or eight of i.'nbe (liggery's kids, three or four of Jim-Tom Tullery's, a bunch of Zeke Vawkey's and several more that nobody no-body could tell whose the.v were till they got their faces washed. Well, then there was a grand hooraw as they all shucked theirselves and whirled in to tying each other's clothes up in hard knots, and fighting about it, and such as that. Hound and round and over and under the.v went, till tiiey all fell into the drink and kept right on lamming each other till the.v knocked all the waler out of the creek." Kansas City Star. |