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Show ILITTLR BENNY'S Note Book By LEE PAPE i 4 Us fellows was setting on my frunt steps and Sid Hunt sed, Hay has eny- j I body got a rubber band'. Wlch Bd Werntbk took a lot of all sorts of tilings out of his pocklt Incloodlng a' rubber band, saying. Do ou wunt to keep it or do you Jest wunt to lend of It? I wunt to keep it, sed Sid Hunt, and I0d Wernlck stuck It hack In his pocklt agen. saying. Thuts dlfffenl 1 thaw you Jest wunted to lend of it O, Ed, you ccrtenly keep a buntch ; of things In your pocklts, sed Pud. Slmklna Wch he does, having a reputation lor it, and Kd sod, I bet there nlnt enythlng eny of you can ask mo for that I alnt got in m pocklts, or sumthlng like It. O, fellows, thats a bet go ahed and asked him fot things I II be the empire. em-pire. I sed. Wlch tlic fellows start.. I to dp. Puds Simkins saving, Hay. Ed, have you got a tope of a empty sass-perlller sass-perlller bottle on you I got sumthlng like U, heers I cor!., sed Fid WernlCk. Wicli he pulled one out. and I sed. Sure, thats llko It. go ahed. fellows, keep on asking him for things Im the empire. Have you got a lump of sugar, on you. Ed'' ed Sid Hunt, ant I-.'d sed Sure And hS pulled one out still prltty clean looking, and Skinny .Martin .Mar-tin sed. You alnt got a door knob on you, have you, Ed? Sumthlng like It. sed Ed And he i jmlled out a iron hinge partly rusi and partly not, me saying, Thats like ' it. thats like It, a hinge terns wen yon open a door and so does a door nob. thats like it. The heck It Is. the doose it is, nuth-ing nuth-ing doing, no sir. wat you think we are, yourc a heck of b empire. Who i er sd a hinge was iik fl floor nob? No sir, like fun it Is thats a fcarse , decision, who ever sed you was a empire'.' em-pire'.' nil the fellows sed. And we made autrh a fearsc noise argewlng that pop looked out the window and ma came to the frunt door and we all had to get off the steps. |