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Show LITTLE BENNY'S Note Book y LEE PAPE 1 4, Skinny Martin was setting on his frunt steps this aftirnoon and wen I eamo up he quick stuck sumthlng In his back pocktt, me thinking. G. maple ma-ple sugar candy. Being one of my most favorite kinds, and I eat there a wile tawklng about dlffrcnt things but not maple sugar, and after a wile 1 sed. Hay, Skinny ." W at " led Skinny Martin, and I 6ed, Do you like maple sugar? No. Its too swee t, wy ? sed Skinny, and I sed. O, J.'st because. And prim-soon prim-soon I sed. Well If you had a hunk of maple sugar candy rite now wouldent ou even eat It? No. I wouldent take the trubble. wy? sed Skinny. O, I don't know, wcl If you had a hunk would you Rjve It to mo sooner than go to all tho trubble of eating it? I sed. Swr 1 would, wy? sed Skinny, and I sed. O no reason, will you leeve mo sertch you rite now to see If you got eny! Ill leave you sertch me for a sent, I alnt going to leeve. enybody sertch me for nulhlng, sed Skinny. And I guvo him H sent, on account of a se-nt In ing cheep fur maple sugar candy nowadays, anil I started to sertch him. leevlng the back poeklt till last as if It was all my own Ideer without me having saw him stick eny- thlng In It. and all he had In his side poclclts was string and buttons and Cork and ptuff. and all he had in his back poeklt was a round leather pock- It book tho color of maple sugar candy, me thinking. Aw heck, darn It. G, And Skinny put the sent In the pock-It pock-It book alongside of 2 more sents. ontl I had ii grate ideer. saying. Hay, Skinny, do you wunt to sertch me for a sent? No, sed Sklnnv. Wich he dident |