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Show Little Benny . I had a dim yesthlday and T Tvas rn-Inir rn-Inir rant a driii torc and I a sine In the window, saylne, Wy waist your money on tobacco-.' 10 cents will buy a (lackldgi- of Skeeyo. an Immediate euro for tho Smoking; hatilt. Taletlcsx If mixed in coffee Me thinking of a grate id er j to make some money, thinking. m I buy a raekldge with my dime and put it in pop coffee and keep him frum wutsf-ini: wutsf-ini: H lot 'f money anil wen he finds out WllO did it he ll be fcO ga. hel give mo back the dime and maybe a lot of more I money besides muybe. And I wCnt m and bawt a paeklde and 1 went in the kltchin wile Nora was ringing the BUPPljr boll and undumped the Skeeo in the bottom of pops oup, be in r wile powder wlch yon couldeni hard)) Baa ii In there, and after a wile Nora ae ma and pop and my sister (iladdi:: then i.ff.-,. knowing popb rup on account of It being the biggest, and thev all put sugar and erecm In and took a lalt, ma and Gladdi:: Jest acting regular regu-lar but pop making a fearse face and saying, L'kr. Mitch coffee, vtgg. thats awflll thats fearse, thata terrible, thats tho limit. Proving Skeeso wanent tahstlesn after nil, and ma r;ed. Why Wlllyum. wat ales irou? This coffee taints perfi-r kly all rite Wtrh hers proberly did, and tiladdls sed. Why. certeny this coffee Is all rite, wata the matter with It Nil thing proberly being tho matter with here, and pop ;u d. Well maybe it was my Imagination but I ccrtr.ny had a vivid Impression that It tainted like and Injudicious mixture of shoe polish, coal tar dye. Ink and mud however, youre 2 to one and Im willing to take your werd for It. And he drank the rest of his enffce making taatraar and fearser fines, saving, sav-ing, WeU Im glad It was ony my Imagination Imagi-nation because Id hate to think I ever drank enythUng that tainted like that Me thinking, O, now he'll never feel like smoaklng cny more, And I std L you wunt me to bring you a segar pup'.' And pop eed, Thats tho most Intelligent thing youve eed this week, a seg;ir mite take that Imaglnery talst out of my mouth Me thinking, Heck. And I won't up and got. him one and wot did he do but smoak it all the way down foal Ra enythting, saying. Oh boy, a segar never talhted so good slnts the beginning of history. Me thinking. G. good bv dime. And I wondered about 16 ininnils wi-ather to tell pop about the Skeezd and trv to get the dime back, and finally I dtdcnl. |