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Show ITTLE BENNY'S I Note Bookl I By LEE PAPE j Us fellows started to form a old clothes club to bring down the high cost of living this aftirnoon wile wo was setting on my frunt steps, Skinny Martin saying, I tell you let wats do, fellows, lets all wear our coats inside out to show we're members of the club. I No, that would be a heck of a way, jpeeple mite think we belonged to a J minstrel show, sed Leroy Shooster, how about it we all have our mother put a patch in our pants to show how old they are, and I sed, Thats a good ideer, lets all cut the same shape hole In our pants so we'll all have the same) shape patch, 111 go in and get a pair of sizzers. Wich I went up to ma's room, and ma was sewing and using the sizzers herself, and I sed, Are you using the sizzers mutch, ma? Yes, sed ma. Well can 1 oorro tnem for about 5 mlnnits, maybe only 4? I sed, and ma sed, Wat do you wunt to cut? Only cloth, I wont hert them ,1 sed, and ma sed, Well be sure to bring them rite back. And I took them and started to go out of the room, and jest wenll was almosl out ma sed, Wat cloth? Mam? 1 sed, and ma sed, Wat cloth, you herd me. Pants, I sed. Wat? sed ma. wat pants, whose pants? and I sed, Jest us fellowser, pants, we're going to start a old clothes club agenst the high cost of living and we got to have patches in our pants to show wo belong. Give me back those sizzers, sed ma. Wich I did, me saying, Sippose we wait till your pants wear out in the natural way, and I sed, Well the high cost of living may be down allreddy by that time, and ma sed, .1 hope so. And T went down to tell the fellows and they had all changed their mind3 agen enyway on account of being afraid their own mothers mite objeck. nn |