| Show I y Orgy o of Birthdays X Dy By RING LARDNER v N N N M N N N M M N-N N N N N N N N N N N N To the Editor Well here it Is the open season for tor picnics again and on Monday morning our front yard looks lIke the char chau had sta stayed ed a couple of weeks week extra Last Sunday they was 10 or 11 of them lIttle what note nots from De troit parked ed in line along the road and several thought we must be having a auction or something some some- tiling thing and come up to make mahe and I was about ready to get sore when a kid Idd about 13 yrs old that belonged to one of the poInted to our cow and says oh look mamma they have got a cow on that estate Wen Well you cant can't stay very mad when they can call your our joint a estate and If one of them will wUl pun pull something like that every Sunday I will try and not make no holler about them upholstering the front lawn with bread and sardine cans but I cant can't help from wondering what that boy Would of called the Swope place next door where they have got a 4 or ft to front and I suppose he Would of nick named it Asia Speaking about the the cow this aint Flossie the one we had but a bran new one ns as Flossie had bad finely became just a ornament The new one dont don't seem to be no special brand and aint got no family tree or nothing She Is plain black and when we first got her ber we left It to the kiddies to give her a name and they thought it over all one day and then give her herthe herthe the name Blackie Kids will wUl think ot of the d t d-t thIngs But for some reason another er Blackie dont don't seem to like her name at lease she acts mad all the time and has showed signs o 0 t f a vengeful spirits It seems that on some parts of the estate theys they's Quite a growth of what they call caU wild garlic garlic gar gar- lic which now cow could possibly enjoy eating it but Blackie eats it to get even and I will say she gets even Sometimes you cnn can shut your eyes wile imbibing the oatmeal and pretend you are enjoying the table de hote at Madame GaUis A few days of warmth and sun sunn shine certainly made the estate look beautiful when all the flowers and blossoms was out All told they was In in bloom at one time 4 hyacinths 2 a j dozen tulips and the fruit orchard The last named isy Is y hId behind the garage so as the picnIc parties cant can't enjoy it Last yr it yielded pretty near a strawberry straw straw- berry erry box fun full of plums which come comens ns as a big surprise as when we bought I the place they told us It was a aJ J cherry tree Annual work started last wk on the the tennIs court The men promise Ito have It ready by Sept this yr as they aint near as much to toI 1 I do to It as other yrs as this winter only h of It caved In I aint in no hurry as I agree with the U. 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S tennis tennis that a man cant can't Write and play piny tennis both and it itIs ItIs Is a whole lot less trouble to write because when you play tennIs you halt half to Wear special white shoes and pants and shirt but you can write In Ina ina a and sUppers slippers and in fact some of my best writings has been done entirely bare toot foot Three ot of the 4 kid kiddies dies was born In in the spring time so we been having quite a orgy of bIrthdays and gen sen- when theys they's one In sight We ask the hero of same what he would like for tor presents and most always the reply is a pony or a sail sall boat or a parrot or something else that they I aint no chance of him setting getting But the boy is different and today to to- day Is his bis birthday and we asked him a wk ago what would he lUke hike lUkeI I and he says he would like something oft off his that Would clean the rust bicycle That Is the Way he be has bas al ways been and will always be the I same way not wanting nothing and nothing is probably what he will get The Mrs decided a wile ago that It was about time We was getting a anew anew new vehicle to ride the kiddies back and ancl to school and back as the theone theone one we had been using for tor that purpose purpose pur- pur pose the last 3 or 4 yrs was acting kind of sullen so we called up the theman theman man and told him to bring something around and so We asked him could we trade In our old one and he looked at same and kind of swallowed hard but says yes he would halt half to take It over to Port Washington to get It ap praised So we was scared to death for a day as Port Washington Is 4 miles from here and the betting was even that the good old wagon wouldn't never complete the round trip but she done It all rIght and the deal was closed and the papers signed and now the kId kiddies dies is squawkIng because because be- be cause nil all the fun has been took out ot of their dally daily trips to and from school They always Insisted on setting inthe In Inthe the back seat of the tho old car and about 2 days out ot of every 5 the machine ma chine would part in the middle either going or coming and when the driver got to school or home and turned around to let them out they wouldn't be there but would be a mile or 2 up the road In the back 3 i ot of the car laughing at him bim That Is about all the Great Neck news only that everYbody Is ticked on acct ot of the spring rains being befog over which means that the electric lights will probably stay on pretty regular unless theys they's a breeze or It gets aeta cloudy or something g. g Ii Q by tU the el B-el Ina IDo |
