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Show u I LITTLE BENNY I I By LKE l'APE. ! Mo and Puds Slmklns w-as both tawking to Mary Wat kins, Puds telling . her compliments so sho would think ho was grate, saying, Hay Mary, I bet yours the smartest gerl in skool, I bet 1 yours smarter than all the other gerls 1 put together i bet. O I dont know, sed Mary Watkms making a modest face. Mc thinking, Darn that buy. he's , Jest trying to make a hit. thats nil he's dolus. And Puds sed. Sure you are. Mary, every tlmo the teetcher asks a. hard question youre the ony one can ' anser it, you cei tony are smart. O Im not so smart, the others arc i so flum, thats all. sed Mary Watkins. ! M- thinking. Aw, how's that dum gUJ know who's nmnrr aud who aint? And Puds sed. Well Mary, dldcnt I l heer uur teetcher tell our teetcher that vou get the best reports in the' Class? Sure I did holey snioaks, I youre so smart its a wonder you haffl to go to skool at all. O I dont know, sed Mary Watkins ! with a Ixpres'lon as if .she dldent , hardly belcevo It horself. Me thinking, think-ing, (i, that, guy thinks he's grate, 1 WOUldent low er myself tawking that way O; 1 w ish I could think of Some-' I thin-,- to make up to tell her. Wich jest then 1 did. saying. Hay' Mary, do you know something, I herd I somebody tawking about vou and they sed you looked Jest like' Mary Pick-ferd Pick-ferd in the moving picktures and J think you do too. ' Llenny. do you reely. 0 Issent that perfeckly wonder-fill. sed Mary Wai-kins Wai-kins looking as If she bclecved il j Ixackly, and I'uds sed, Aw, he jest i mado that up. I'uds Plmkins, you jest keep quiet, j I dont speek to you. sed Mary Watkins Wat-kins And she kepp on looking at me as if .he thawt J was mutch greater than wal l'uds was. Proving it dont matter If a compliment compli-ment is true or not as long as the per-Bin per-Bin is glad to heer it. |