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Show LITTLE BENNY'S Note Book By LEE PAPE J My cur.zin Artie was errouud yestld-i I day, and there was half a glass of peetch Jam on th dresser in the Kit- J chin, and ma sed me and Artie could finish it, saying it the 3rd time I aaked her Wieh we did, the jam being htick as enything but not too sticky, on account ac-count of that being impossible, and Artie went home for suppir and I was reeding The Boy Scout in th-Trentches. th-Trentches. up in the setting room wen I herd pop come home, opening the frunt door and saying, For the love of mud wats all this over the door nob? I never saw sutch a house In my lif and Im luck I havent And he hung up his hat and pritty soon ma called us for suppir ami pop came in the dining loom. banm, Confound Con-found ft. heers some more of ihat blasted gloo on this door nob, wat the! doose is it. anyway Benny, do you know enytbing about this? W ho, me7 I sed, and pop sed. No, the boy down the street Meaning yes, me, and I sed, Ma left me and Artie finish a half of a glass of peetch' Jam this aftlrnoon. and maybe Artie got some of his on things. (). I see, maybe Artie did, beh, vr$ clever, very clever, sed pop. And he started to set down and stopped, 6ay-inK. 6ay-inK. This is ih" Iimii. ihi? js im, niuu h its all over the seet of my chair pother, wai on erth ever pizzes.s.-.j vou lo go and gie those 2 Indians a buckit of jam? Nonsents. I dont blerve there was' more than a few spoonfuls there, sed ; ma ; A few barrilsfull, you mepu I never j 'saw so mutch Jam in sutch a short j space of time In my life, sed pop. And ma cleened it off of the chair and pop sat down and ale his suppir looking as if be was still thinking of Jam, and' after suppir he got some more on his1 hand off the settin room door nob, say ing. This is the last straw. Im goin? to do sumthlnc about this, and i Bed Artie allways gets things on things. Artie be hanged, if I tOU(ch anotherl jam trap youll marten sLr.it- up to bed. sed pop Wicb Jesf then he toutched another one on the arm of his morris chair |