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Show IUTTLrK BENNY'S ' Wk Notebook 1 By LEE PAPE t Yestiday I saw Mr. Lewis on the r street and he gave me a rapped up box f, to take homo to pop. Wich I started V to, and some of the follows was play- Ing a game of marbles In the next block, and I put the rapped up box on j. somcbody3 frunt steps and got in the I game on account of me having 7 mar- bles, wich In about 20 minnits I dldeni have cny and kopp on '.going home, and after suppir pop sod to ma, Moth- cr, did Lewis stop heer today with a packldgc for mo? And ma sod, No, and pop sed, Confownd it, not a thing to smoak and I jest had my mouth all sot for ono of those scgars, wato till J see Lewis tomorrow, I'll ball him out good and proper, wait till I get hold of him, that's all. JjH Mo thinking, Gosh, G, I bet that y was tho box. Meaning the rapped up ono, and I sod, Maybe It wasnt his iwM fault, pop, maybe he lost them or Jmm something. YjFM Who asked you for ony foolish con- f solation, sed pop, and I sed, Well maybe he started to bring them, pop, fc and maybe something happened to ; them on the way, maybo. I j Stop tawking like a fish out of wat- tlr, wat do you sippose could posserbly mw' have happened to thom? sed pop, and mM I sed, Maybe he gave them to some- Bi body to take homo, sutch as me, and Ejr maybe I left them on somebodys frunt steps wile I played marbles and then i forgot them. WIchc pop jest stared ' B i at me as It he dident know who was K fl dreaming, him or me, and I sed, Shall nl'l I run down now, pop, and see If theyro El still there? fll You brlngthose scgars to me Inside SI I of 20 minnits or take the conso- fir 1 I quentses, sed pop. Wich I quick ran f t down to the place and nuthing was II cnt there but the bare frunt steps, and S I rang tho bell and a lady camo to the 1 door and I asked her If enybody had M saw a rapped up box, and she sed, My W goodnlss, my husbind wont be ploased I at all. he was hoping nobody would i come for thoso segars, and he's smoakod 2 allrcddy. And she brawt T ; out the box with 2 segars out, and pop f ; jj was so glad to got the rest ho never I sod onylhlng about the 2, so I didn't I haff to take eny consequentscs. I |