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Show 4 Little Benny 4 Mary Watklns was !r yeers old yestid-day yestid-day on a. count of it being her bertbday. and I sed to ma. Mo. do you know those, paper carnations on y,.tir .leak you won I for a -ewker prize? Well, can I take some of them to give to Mary Watkir.s for her berthday? Just a few. a very few sed ma. And T wont and took . one for each v.-.r. thinking. G, nines ony a few. Wlch It Is. ony ii hoiked like more on account of ony :; being left after I took them, and Ij rapped them up In a old newspaper and i rang Marv Watklnses bell and gave them m her. saying. Merry herth.lay . and she undid the newspaper, saying, o how per-feckly per-feckly lovely, O how perfecKly sweet and bewtlflll. Tnerea 9 of them Jest like your berth - , day. I sed. and she sed. O wat a per-1 fecKly elegant thawl. And I went home, agen and ma sed. Bennv . Ive oln waiting i for you. wat did you mecn by taking almost all my paper carnations after I txpresslv told you that you could ony ' i have a few" Now jest for that youll I march rite hack an.l brlns them all home' , agen. i I Aw gosh G holey smoaks ma. I sed. and ma sed. Not another slllahle. you better have those flowers back beer be- i fore your father gets home, lhats all I j half to say. Me thinking. Heck good mtc And I went eiround and rang Mary Watklnses bell ac-n siv Ing :. her. H Mar . wats you think. Uteres something the matter ( ' with those paper carnations and I Jest found out about and you better give them I bacW agen ... Wy, wat. wats the matter with them. I sed Mary Wat kins, and 1 sed, B lady thawt thev was reel and she sno them I and thev had germs In Ih.-m an -h cawt a fcarse cold and she may be dad I now for all I know. I jest found ut : about It f"i well I bin vaccinated for genM sad Marv Watklns. end I s.-.l Not thes. I germs., von belter civ.- them back, and j she sed. O youre a old Indian glVer, thats wat you are. 1 dont wunt your old flowers. An.l she went and got them and I ihrevv them all out on tin pavement mad and I took them home and pul them I a. H I with the other :t and 1 .hint know weather ' Mary Walklns Is still mad or not. nie not ! having saw her since on account of not j having tried to. |