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re resemblance First off oIT the thc hunch bunch got ot a a. holt hoit of me mp and anti I was wac all allright right They didn't hardly nee need to hold m me I finally told em cm to let me alone and they did dill Soon's Soon I felt I only had my lay own feet to stand on I got scared just the way vay I T felt when I first copped Liz out for a to heart It was up to mo to keep In good standing Did I do it Well Veil I did a few fancy Caney steps tep and then I got bot a good 1 hard bard Jolt After a 11 while I J got ot up again nn ana anO practised standing still It was all allright allright I right as long as ns nobody didn't blow In my mv direction I didn't fall fail down clown Same time I didn't seem to be getting any anyplace anyplace anyplace place particular Then I moved d slow and I wont went down easy Prell Pretty soon I bc began an to think Id I'd got ot the time hang hanS of It it a and I went a yard and arid a half or two tv yards ards without jarring the putty out of or orthe the the- window JI lights Fine business business' Now o oId Id I'd show cm em what good skating was Me ibm for a lI lightning dash around the hall hail I When they brought me out of oC the dressing room morn I asked them to lead me mp to the place where I fell feU an and show me mt the shattered planks I J thought theo they'd d have tho the spot rope roped off ocr Vita wita a an ared n red lantern burning but there wasn't m no more than a dent about a foot toot across tern in the floor You'd hardly have nol noticed ked it unless you looked 1001 and saw the print oC ut pants pant material and the them m day when th time the building Inspectors came rt m. m around they couldn't find anything anything any any- thing wrong with the foundations That seemed funny to me mo But I sure lid slid get m my own framework shocked up a few fow en- en enWell Well that's thatA the way it Is w with Ith me mc and Liz Some evenings 1 Ill I'll go 0 around hero and say you'd you think J I was the only son of ot the Ice trust and anti she was an arm innocent young society bud Is he good g to me mC Well Wall I 1 wont won't say that she sIte Is right at the off jump off not not S so o much so anyway But she she's s glad Iad ti to tn see sec me nie all an rl right ht and Its It's Just as asI 1 I Isay say ay whether w we stay tay right there or drift around whore where theres there's something doln doing dolnic The I Is good enough h for tor her hei though an and there wont won't bo be nObodY no nO- bodY bod In lii the front loom room tonight un tonight un unless less you want wont to go out out or Of course 1 Id I'd 1 want to go out onto It would he be painful sitting In that front room with her ner all nU alone wouldn wouldn't t It with nobody hut but ourselves to talk to and anel not n an n too loo good light t Sa Say no nomore more we WP sta stay SItes sitting slUing In one one rock rocker r and Im I'm I m sitting in another and she's looking Just about right Once In a while she bhe lifts up lii her arms to do tIo something to her halt hall and It ii looks look good While she she's s rocking I T take lake notice that Im I'm in favor of patent leather slippers with black bows on to em m and that theres there's some somo kind of or work that's harder on tho the eyes cyc than open work worl Once In a. a while I 1 get a smile that gets mo me fair faim woozy md n altogether ther the time sofa flota looks awful lonesome and empty empt all b by Itself I put it IL up to her if It wouldn't bemore bo be mote more comfortable there ther and I move over being careful not to hog 10 all aU atthe of at the space there th is s She Sho doe doesn't nt think that Ive I've got myself fixed Just right so soshe soshe sosho she sho comes over oer and bunches hunch s the cushions cushions cush cush- ions 10 behind my lua Item head Now aint that bett better r I Im doing pretty well thank you She's She still Run farther oft off than T I could vl irish n. n but I aint lost Jost the power of moLIon motion mo mo- LIon tion and anti after a while Irh Ith looking at nt atthe atthe the cute cuto little ring that sites she wearing Next thing she's wanting to take her herland mud land away What do you want to take It away for or S kind of foolish Oh It seems seem so There Thero aint no rio buzz of or conversation from that on but Ive I've got a hunch that Its It's s 's getting to be bo a l little more all allright allright right every minute and anti m my arms arm's working around to I the he hack back of her when her hel sister butts in m an and says say My Myland Myland land Jand What are you folks doing h here Why dont don't you have havo some Rome light All the same It aint so o worse n I say sav good night she h dont don't seem to want waat to br break ak away and there aint no telling what might happen if It I r raint aint too wise to It rush timings things But nut t tho tto next time lime Im I'm on deck heck ready to start w whore erf I I left ft ofT off theres there's falling temperature temperature temper temper- siti brisk to violent northwest winds I Lets go SO out somewhere What's the use of ot staying In That'll be about enough h of ot that You stay where you belong and dont don't get et gay a or you'll notice something drop rop Come Cometo to think of or It I cant can't go anywhere with you vou either I promised to fo o go o see sen Fay tonight ht I forgot about that when I 1 said for 01 you to toom come om No I 1 aint going to Nit Oh Mime ome around n next month if you want to to-or to or dont don't come at all aU it dont don't make maleo no nn difference to me That what you get Why Is It Search me mp said the young than man manfrom from the ties |