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Show I LITTLE BENNY ! By L:E PAPE. Us fellows was standing srround the lam post this aftlrnoon and Sid Hunt and Sam Cross started to have I a fite, standing here with their fist.j made and their faces stuck out at each other with fearao lxpressions on i them. Sam saying. Aw go on. who could you lick, you couldent li.-k a postldge stamp. Aw shut up. yon eouldent even beel a old carpit. you I ouldent. sed Sid Hunt Wk h us other fellows kepp on I jumping etround them and yelling diffrent things to make them madder; at each other, yelling Soak him. Sum,' dont leave him tawk to you like that I Sid. are you going to stand for that, ' Sum. dont take en of his lip, S!d soak hlni one. thats a way to tawk, Sam. thats a way to tawk, Sid I Proving we was neutral and all wej I wunted was a flte and Snm Cross made the fears est face yet and al-j most bunked Sid Hunts noce with his nose, saving, Who you telling to shut up. I ould lick yon w 1th one hand behind my back and one eye closed, and Sid sed. You ony think you could, wy I could lick you with both hands behind my back and one eye closed and the other eye looking ,-iomewares cits, thats how easy 1 could li k you. And us fellows kepp on Incoumglngl tli6m and they kepp on Ixplaining how easy they could lick eacli other and daring each other to hit them ferst. and all of a suddln 2 fire engines en-gines went past going like the dlck-1ns. dlck-1ns. and us fellows ran after them to beet the band leaving Sid and Sam still starting a flte with dose, noses, and there waseni any fire on account of it being a falls alarm, and wen we got back Sid and Sam W8S setting nexl to each other on the cerbstono with friendly ixpreesioris. us fellows saying. Hay Is it over, who won? Nobody, we decided not to have a file, sed Sam Cross. Proving the more tawk the less ac- nuts and prunes. James tJrinstead : wutched me while 1 ate, und gnashed his benrd and said, ' By eating thus you're tempting fate, niethink you'll soon be dead oh. listen to the aaffo remarks of learned mon, great mil wise, rind eat three pounds of roots and barks, and cut out all those pies." I told him all he had to say to me wn sounding brass, and wearily ho went lils way, to eat some twigs and graas Then from a roof a furlong high a ragged brkkbat fell, his fore-be fore-be ol caught it on the fly: he died without a yell And still 1 eat the gaudy pie, nor care what may befall' be-fall' there are so many ways to die, we cannot dodge them all. |