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Show f ' 1 1 LITTLE BENNY'S Notebook By LEE PAPE - Testldday w hen pop came home he 1 saw 2 yello stanes on the parlor carpet, car-pet, and he called ma and ma had never saw them before, so they called me and I had saw them both before, saying, It wasent my fawlt, ma, it wasent my fawlt pop. It was a acker-bat acker-bat me and Puds Sirakins saw ai the 'show Satidday aftirnoon. O, indeed, Im sorry' I was out wen I he called, sed pop. He dldent call. pop. I sed, he did , tricks at the theater, he took a long 1 pole with a litt lamp on the top of it and he balanced it on the end of his ! chin like enything, you awt to of saw him, pop. Pardon me for interrupting, but has this enything to do with these j stanes? sed pop. and I sed, Yes sir, Im coming to it, and after that he I went down stairs on his hed jest as If he was going down on his feet , ony he was going dow n on his hed, I you aw t to of saw him. pop No doubt, but these stanes? sed pop, and I sed. Yes sir, I was jest coming to that, and then he wawked on atite rope and wen he got out on the middle of it he laved down and smoked a clgaret as if he thawt he was home sumwares G pop, you awt to of saw him, 9 Have ypu ixplaned about the stanes yet? sed pop, and I sed, Im neerly up to that, pop. and then wat do you think he did, pop? he took 2 raw cgss and them on the floor and jumped rite on them and they dident brake or enything, eny-thing, and ihen he broak them in a glass to show they was recly raw, you awt to of saw him. pop. G. Hah, the plot thickens, and 1 sip-pose sip-pose wen you tried it it wasent m o easary to have q glass hand) to prove the eggs were raw, was it sed pop No sir. he must of bin awfill lite, I sed. and ma sed, Ware did you get the eggs? and I sed. Out of ihe glass i thing in the Ice box, and ma sed, The best eggs, and look at that car-pit, car-pit, Wlllym, vou must punish him for this. Benny, sed pop, all ambitious men mu't suffer for their mistakes, and your mistake was in choosing the parler Instcd of some nootral teri-tory teri-tory like the back street. And after suppir I had to stay in and cleen up the stanes wile the fellows fel-lows was wissllng for me outside. oo |