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Show jl.ITTLE BENNY'S Notebook By LEE PAPE I The fellows was setting on my front steps Satidday Sftlrnoon, and Lew Davis came up saying, G, fellows, watt ynu thmk, Puds Simkins has bin working erround at Smits all day be-CSUSe be-CSUSe Freddie is sick in bed, wats you think of that, fellows? Freddie being the bow legged kid that werks erround Smits meet and iregtible store wen he's not sick in bed and Sam Cross sed. G, gosh, imagine im-agine Puds working, gosh, G 1 bet he'll be weak for a week, I sed. Puds werking, jlmnnny KrlssmUSS, some miracle must be going to happen, sed Sid Hunt. Lets us go erround and see wai hi s doing, sed Reddy Merf) Lets make him nervis, sed Sam Cross. And we all went erround to Smits and who was standing outside taking potatoes out of a barril and putting them in basklts but Puds, and us fellows fel-lows started to laff, Reddy Merfy say-Ing, say-Ing, Hello, Puds, wats you think your ('oing? Are you having a good time. Puds, do you need eny help? I sed. Don't handle them so ruff Puds dont you know potatoes have got feelings feel-ings the same as enybody elts? sed Sid Hunt Aw go on, youre Jellus because you aint col the job, sed Puds, And he kepp on taking potatoes out of the barril and putting them in baskits as if he was used to it, Reddy Merfy ;ay-mu, ;ay-mu, Look out, Puds theyre libel to ixplode. nd as fellows kepp on laffing 'and thinking it was funny as eny-thine, eny-thine, wlch it was, and Mr. Smit came H'li of the store and handed Puds a dollar, saying, Leers your monev, you can go when you finish that job, Freddie Fred-die will be erround after suppir. Wlch Tuds took the doller and stuck ii in lil- pockH as if he dident think eny more of a dollar than most people do of a sent, and Reddy Merfy sad. Wats you going to do with it, Puds, and you coming out tonlte. Puds, G. Pllds. I le t mil " :'- ::."") at this Joh as wat Freddie is, eny day I be! ourc betw. r. Puds, wats you trolnc to do with it, Puds" I sed And we all kepp on tawking respectable to him and he never even ansered us, and wen he got throo he wawked home wisselinv with his hands In his pockits and us fellows wawked alone side of him asking him questions without with-out getting ansers. |