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Show I LITTLE BENNY'S I NoteBookl By LEE PAPE I Last Sattldny aftirnoon I was booting boot-ing rugs out in tho back yard on account ac-count of It being the 3rd Sattldny I was sipposed to beet them and ma saving if I dident she would toll pop, and wondering if eny of tho fellows was out and wat they was doing, thinking, G, this is a heck of a thing for a guy to bo doing on Snttiday. I wish I was having a race with sum-body sum-body on my roller skates. And I wont and looked in the kitchin ware ma was boeting egga to make them puffy, saying, Hay, ma, wy cant I beet those old rugs tomorro Jnsted of. today? Wat nn C,,t,J.. . .."v, uuijuuj, uitj you Kruzy.' BCu. ma. No mam, J sed. And I went back and kepp on booting boot-ing tho ruga slow, thinking, Gosh, I'd drathor bo taking-a bath than doing this. j And then I wont over to the corner of,the yard where I planted the onion to see if chy thing was coming up yet, wjch nuthlng was, and I went back and started to beet the rugs agen, thinking Id almost drather be in skool than doing this, pritty neer. And I kepp on boeting them Blow and wishing I was having fun sum-wares, sum-wares, thinking, If enybody asked me, vich was the worst thing I wouldent! drather do, I'd tell them this. Wich jest then I herd pop call down stairs, saying, Say, mother, Im tired of waiting for the laundry man to col-leck col-leck this wash wy cant Benny carry the hole buntch of it to the laundry Its ony 7 or 8 blocks frum heer. He can't go, he's beetlng rugs sed ma. Me thinking, Gosh, G. herray. And I started to beet the rugs faster but not mutch. Proving there Is allways suinthing werse. . nrv |