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Show LITTLE. BENNY'5 I HoteSookl By LEEA J; Yestidday Mrs. Watkins asked me if I wunted to make a dime, saying, My baby carridgo is at Stimslns hardware store having the weels fixed, will you go and get it and push it back for me? Wich I started to do, drinking, Gosh, I hope none of the fellows is, out. And1 1 got half way back with it without seeing eny of the fellows wen all of a suddin I saw Puds Simkins and Skin-j ny Martin and Leroy Shoostor down the street spinning tops, me thinking, I Heck, darn it. And there was some! red heddQd kid going past, and I sed, Hay. do you wunt to make a sent, push this thing down to the corner for me. my arms are getting tired, and the red hedded kid sed. Not for a sent I wont, 3 sen'ts is war! charge for pushing push-ing baby carridges, and I sed, O all rite, I'll give you 3. And ho pushed It down past Puds and Skinny and Leroy Shooster, me wawkingin back of him as If I didentl even, know who he was, wich I dident.l and he stopped pushing it down at the ' corner, me saying, 111 give you tho 3' cents as son as I get tho dime frum the lady. Wich jest hen I saw some more of the fellows playing hop skotch In the next block, and I sed, Well, as long as you made 3 sents you mite as well make 3 more, push It past those fellows up there and 111 give you 3 more. Nuthing doing, my rates has gone up, thyro 6 scnts now, I jest joined the j union, sed tho red hedded kid, and I sed, Well holey smoaks, Im only going to get a dime, and ho sed, Thats none of my bizniss, and jest then the fellows fel-lows started to look down the street and I sed, O all rite darn it, 111 give you 6 if you push it all the way. I 111 push it all the way for 8, vats youtthink I am, a strike breaker? sed !the kid. Wich I had to promise him 1 8, making 11 alltogether, and he jpushed It all the way to Mrs. Wat-klnses, Wat-klnses, mo wawking in back of him 'as if I was jest talarg a wawk by myself, and wen Mrs. Watkins gave mo the dime I had to give It. to the red hedded kid and 5 marbles besides to make up for the extor sent. I Proving enythlng is better than being be-ing Imbarrassed. |