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Show j LITTLE BENNY'S Note Bookl By LEE PAPE ; My cuzzln Artie camo over last nlte. Wid me and him was playing checkers kin the setting room floor and pop w is breeding the spoarting page, and aft r I )a wile Artie cot bred of not being abb-' abb-' to beet me and Stopped playing, s; -ring, Aw heck, this is a gerls game, this p. I tell you lets wat, lets play mod-iestly, mod-iestly, I sed. All rite, how'' sed Artie, and I sed. ! ,The Ideer is lo pee with one can say Ithe most modest thins about them-; them-; leelf. All rile, you start, sed Artie. Wich I did, saying. I got bigger mussels for imy size lhan eny fellow erround, but inhat alnt anything, big mussels aim 50 mutch. enybou cm have big mus- jsels, 1 wouldenl brag about It, theyrc iitolgger than some fellows with long jants have, but that aim enything Being Arties tpm, and he sed, Im I better in arifmetick than anybody in Jour class. 1 bet I can add faster than wat the teetcher can, bin wais thai, I thai nint enything, I dont go erround thinking 1m bettor than oven body ells jest because lm smarter. Being my tcm, and I sed. Im so I good at reeding that wen its my tern I to reed in skool eerybody claps as If they was at a free show, but wat do I rare. 1 can do so meny things that I dont think enything of that, lhats ;nuthing as far as Im conserned Being Arties tern, and he sed. Im so I good looking that wen I have my piek-tures piek-tures taken all the gerls wunt one. and come erround and ask and beg till I have to give ihem each one In self I detents, and BOme artist saw me onee land he would of painted me if he bad-lent bad-lent of bin so bizzy, but gosh. Wats that i amount to, enybody can be good looking, look-ing, I dont even tawk about it Being my tern, and I was jest Smarting, Smart-ing, and pop sed. Halt, stop, ceese fir I ing. if I waSent so modest myself Id siarl lo brag about how Im going to bump 'your 2 heds together till ou see stars if you dont both eleer out of beer before I can lay hands on ou Wich we did oo |