Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-07 | Page 5 | Little Benny

LITTLE BENNY I By LKE PAPE- Me and Puds Simkins was standing down at the corner and Mary Watklns was standing on her frunt steps looking look-ing erround and not w aving to us, and I 1 sed. Look at her. she knows we're ; down heer all rite, she's jest pertend-! pertend-! ing she dont, look at her Sure, lets wawk i !u past her with-; with-; out speeklng to her Jest to how her j we're as good ;us she is and maybe I better, G. who's she, anyways? ed Puds. Sure, who's she. wat the heck, I sed; I come on. lets wawk rite past her as if I we dident know she w as living, come I on. Weil wait a minr.it. wait a minnit, I tell you lots wut. you wawk past her j feral without even looking at her. and then 111 wawk past her rlto In back of you. that will make It even Stronger than If we wawked past her both to- aether, ed Pud-. Sounding like the t.est Ideer yet. and I started to wawk up the street jud Biary Watklns kepp on standing on her frunt steps in her roaj coat and but looking even more beWty looking than usual, and I wawked rite past her I looking up In the air oa If I dlden. i care who she was. thinking, G, she wont think she's so grate after me land Puds wawk past her like this. And wawked all the ways to the i corner without looking erround and ' then I looked erround to see If Puds bad wawked past her yet and wat woa be 'loinc but standing there tawklng f to hor as if he never had eny ideer of wawklng past her. WfCh tie prober-ly prober-ly never had, me thlnklm?. , wlzz. holey smoaks. wats you know about that, good nlte, heck. Proving all may bo fair In love and war but that dont make It env more . heorflll.