Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-26 | Page 4 | Little Benny's Noted Book

LITTLE. BENNY' & NoteBook By LEE PAPE . , " I was laying on the setting room floor looking up at the ceeling and asking ask-ing pop questions sutch as wich makes the most panefill sting, a bee or a wasp, and weather their stings hert more wen they are mad than wat they do wen they are jest stinging in fun, and weather munkeys scratch their-selves their-selves for the exercize or weather they reoly feel like scratching, and pop was trying to reed the sporting pago and anser the questions at the same time aDd looking unsatisfied about it, and I sed, Pop? Wat, yee gods and little fishes, wat, wat? sed pop. Would It take long to count up to a million? I sed. Count up to one and see and give me a little peeco, for the love of Mike, sed pop. Wich I thawt for a wile, and then I sed, Will you glvq me 5 sents If I do, pop? Do wat, confouwned it? sed pop, and I sed, count up to a million. Yes, you bet, I'll give you a dime if you do, go over there in the corner out of my site and try it and come back and let me know wen youre throo, sed pop. Yes sir, I sed. And I went and sat in the corner and started-to count loud as enything, 1, 2, 3, -1, 5, 6, 7, S 9, 10. Hay, hay, wat are you doing? sed pop, and I sed, Counting up to a million, mil-lion, you told me to. I ment count to yourself, not at the top of your voice, hang It, sed pop, and I sed, Well gosh, G-, pop, I haff to count out loud or III forgot wat number num-ber Im up to , 11, 12. 13, 14, 15. Halt, stop, yee gods, 111 take the will for the deed heers the dime go out and dissipato with it for Petes sake, sc-d pop. Wich I did, going to the movies with Puds Simklns and Lcroy Shooster. oo