Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-21 | Page 4 | Little Benny's Note Book

little: benny is'J. NoteBook By LEE PAPE I had a peace of wood and L wuntcd to make it square instcd of oblong, and I asked pop to loan me his pen nifo 7 times in vane and f asked him the 8th time and he loaned it to mo on account of poberly being wore out saying say-ing No tho fcrst 7 times. , Being a 2 blade pen nife" with ono' big blndo and one littlo one and I opened the big one and started to cut the peece of wood, being a mutch harder hard-er peece than wat It looked frum the the outside, and all of a nudden wat did the blade do but brake rite in -half half sticking in the wood and half slaying on the pen nife, where it be longed. G whizz, gosh, I thawt. And I quick closed wat was left of the big blade and opened the little one, and pritt-ty pritt-ty soon I sed to pop. This blades a pritty good of a blade, aint it pop" Its not neerly as good as the big one, sed pop, keeping on smoaking and reeding the Bpoarting page. Yes, sir, pop it better, I sod. How dare you contordlck me in that manner, I say the big blade is tho ony good bglade'in the nife, sed. pop. Well maybo It used to be pop, I sed. Used to be your eye, it is rite now, hang it, sed pop. and I aed Weil G gosh, pop, how can it be wen its broak in hall? Wnt? sed pop loud as eny thing, and I sed, Yes. sir, this woods as hard as enything. do you think if I got the other half of it could be glued on agon, pop? Come over here, sed pop, Wich I did and pop took his slipper off and put it on m but not on my foot and not easy. nn