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Show f JLITTLE BENNY' s Note Book j By LEE, pAPE J Testldday I was wawklng throo the dining room without eny speshll reason, rea-son, and wat did I sec on the side bord but a big lemmln merang de about 2 Inches thick, me thinking, G, gosh, G. And I looked at it a wile wishing I was 'eating- it. and then I stuck my llttlo "finger in the mernmg part to see how long It would take to get to the lemmln part thinking, "Gosh, it made a, hole. And I licked my finger and went out of the dining room, thinking, G, that a hecks of a way to Ioeve a lemmln merranp pie, with a finger hole In it. And I went back agen and looked at the hole, thinking. MayLo I better cut out the whole 3cco and cat it, a pie with a piece out looks a darn site better than a pie with a finger fin-ger holo in. And. I cut out the slice with tho hole In it and ate it, ta la tins? sweli, and the empty space in tho pie looj.cd about twice as big as w.it i lie slico did, and I went upstairs and ina-wa.s in her room darning holes out of socks, and I sed, Ma, can I have a slice of that lemmln merrang pie boforo sun-plr? sun-plr? Do you ever think of cnything except ex-cept eating? Wy not, for jitys sake? sed ma! Yes, mam, 1 sed And ma dldont say enything, and I sod. Can I, ma? No, sed ma, and I sed, Aw CJ, ma, wy not? i Because I say no, sed ma. Being a reason . without eny argument argu-ment to use agenst it, and after a wile I sed, Well I dont think I wunt eny pie for suppir, ma. Wy not, for pity's sake? sed .na. Because I had my slice, I sed. Well, sed ma, you take the cake. Wleh I take the pie, cnyways. |