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Show ILITTJLfi: BENNY'S j Notebook By LEE PAPE Yestidday I counted up how mutch money I had. saved up to buy Kriss-mas Kriss-mas presents and made a list of the presents I was going to buy with it, thlb being it: Pop a hankerchiff with his initial lmbroidered in one corner. Ma a thing to put mustard in with a glass spoon, 25 senls. My sister Gladdis things to put in her shoes wen she's not wearing th(?m 10 tents. ' j A'y cuzzin Artie A half a pound of i new jelly beens in a old f antsy boz frum last Krismass, 9 sents. Uc-ing all, and this, aftirnoon J wa3 standing on my skates lawking to Mary Watkins standing on hers, and she sea, Have you bawt your Kriss-mas Kriss-mas jresont3 yet, Benny? and I sed, No, not yet, but I got a list rote out. 0. have you. who alls on it9 sod Mary Watklns. Meenlng was 3ht on It, and I sed, O, diffrent people, and she sed Leroy Shooster is going to give mo a present for Krissmas, wats you think of that:? A half a pound of chocklits, wats you think of that? t think Leroy Shooster' is awfill nice, don! you? j O l dent know, 1 sed, and Mary Vat- kins-sed, 0 dont you think he i, O II thisk he is. and 1 sed, O a half a! pound of chocklits aim so mutch, wats! a half pound of chocklits, wat would i I you say if I gave you a hole pound? J O, Benny, how pcrfeckly wonderfill. 1 1 think youre twice as nice as Leroy Shoosler, I hope you dont think a mo-linent mo-linent I was hinting? sed Mary Wat-' kins. j j Serteny not, I sed. Wich maybe j 'sh-1 wnsent, and wen I went home i' jinnee another list, this being it: ; iNirtry Watklns, a pound of chocklits, 50 sents. Pop, a small size hankerchiff with s initial rote in one corner with red n. 10 sents. Ma, a glass musterd spoon, 10 sents My sister Glnddls, a small siz box or .loo blackening, 5 sents. My cuzzin Artie, nuthiug. |