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Show "J-- settee tfrat y3Tr""ana TJaylTsff haven't seemed very friendly the last week or two," observed the Park "Back po'rch, shereBen Skiles, the j expressman could call and get 'em. What do you think that consarned idiot of an expressman did?" "I give it up," said the Park Ridge man. "He carted off my lawn mower that was standing there on the porch with the trash - from the garret. Wouldn't that jar you? "I didn't attend the sales. But it came out afterward that that skate Bayliss bought the mower in for $5. I guess he thought he was getting a bargain, but I only paid $3.50 for it new. The pastor's wife met me a few days after and she laid it on thick about my generosity. I went to Bayliss and I told him it was a mistake mis-take of Skiles' and I thought he ought to give me the mower back. Think he'd do it? Not much! He had the nerve to tell me that I could have it for half what he gave at the sale. I got hot and I told him what I thought of him." "Pretty tough," said the Park Ridge man, sympathetically. Ridge man, holding up his newspaper and changing his feet on the seat before be-fore him. "Well," said the man in the ulster, "it was like this, Bayliss, you know, lives next door to me, and we always managed to get along pretty well together. to-gether. If he needed any of my garden gar-den tools which he was always doing do-ing all he had to do was to come and ask me and he got 'em. The lawn mower particularly. He didn't have one of his own and all last summer he used mine. "Well, early last winter the women of the church got up a rummage sale. Bayliss is one of the main guys, you know, and he came around to me one morning and wanted me to hunt up a lot of plunder and, of course, I said I'd do it. My wife was away at the time and it was the girl's Thursday out, so as I didn't want to leave the house open I told Bayliss I'd dump what I could rake up outside on the |