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BROOKS Mcclure M Newspaper Syndicate Features I ACCORDING A to his neighbors In inthe l the small smaIl coastal town to old Mr Atwell was just plain cantankerous With his gout and perennial hay fever he didn't do much but sit on his back porch a sweeping view of the blocks block's back yards before him Naturally he knew everything that went on One late summer day old Mr At At- Atwell Atwell Atwell well saw the family next door move out and witnessed the moving In of ofa ofa a mild moustached little man and his pink-cheeked pink wife They were quiet and unobtrusive but old Mr Atwell wasn't deceived by appear appear- ances He watched them carefully for some mild indiscretion over which wl ch he could argue a complaint The house next door was only six feet away Nothing untoward hap hap- happened happened happened until the end of the week and then it was worse than he could have hoped for On that hot fiot Saturday morning he swept a n satisfied eye over Betsy's neat and orderly vegetable garden bordered with zinnias Old Mr At- At Atwell's Atwells Atwells Atwell's Atwells Atwell's wells well's eye hit the low hedge separating separating separating ing his yard from the neighbors neighbor's and traveled along it to a point exactly ex ex- exactly exactly beside his own porch The mild mUd little moustached man was working there with new strips of lath What in you building roared old Mr Atwell AtwellA A uA trellis sir the young man said smiling My name is Bul Bul- lock I understand youre you're Mr At At- Atwell well weIl Im I'm happy to be your neigh neigh- neighbor neighbor neighbor bor sir A uA trellis How big a trellis Three feet wide and six feet high Susan that's Mrs Bullock thought it would be real pretty here Make our back yard more private She plans to have roses climbing all al over ye it Old Mr Atwell exploded like a atoy atoy atoy toy balloon Roses 1 I he snorted I III wont won't have it Come on over here young man old Mr Mfr Atwell said Mr Bullock climbed up un un- uncertainly uncertainly uncertainly certainly and sat down All AU the place I got to sit is this back porch Bad gout I going to see anything with that confounded obstruction ob ob- obstruction obstruction plumb up against my face And roses give me hay fe fe- ver Worse than blazes I ul dont don't want to make trouble Mr Atwell but its it's my land and I dont don't know anything prettier on a trellis than roses But if you object to roses we can plant something else That evening Betsy lost her tem tem- temper temper temper per completely George she said testily Ive had about all aU I can stand from you Mr Bullock said he wouldn't put roses there Well Nell i what are you crabbing about If you cant can't see from that side you youcan I Ican can just sit on the front porch porch l for fora for I forIa a spell He managed to stay of oil the back porch for a few days On the third morning he stamped into the living room room and nd shouted By Godfrey That pipsqueak has put six hens and a rooster to housekeeping in his back yard Ill I'll not stand for forit it Hens smell Most as bad as I roses for my fever feve That night the wind raged in from I Ithe the sea Rain lashed against the windows Old Mr Atwell seemed in high good spirits the next morn morn- ing He hobbled downstairs wear wear- wearing wearing wearing ing an unprecedented unprecedented- smile He bolted his breakfast and emerged t on to his back porch a scant half hal minute after his neighbor Bullock I reached his yard The jerry-built jerry trellis lay forlorn forlorn- forlornly ly flat away from old Mr Atwells Atwell's porch a tangled mass of broken lath Well I do declare said old Mr Atwell a trifle louder than necessary A uA shame I say Its uIt's too bad agreed Bullock All uAIl the lath I had too Seems to be the only thing blown over Those steady sea sea winds winds can whip things down own mighty quick Aft Aft- After After After er you worked wolfed ed so hard on it too Real bad luck Bullock He sat on the back porch all aU day long The wind blew again in the night and old Mr Atwell was aghast at atthe atthe atthe the sight of all six of Bullocks Bullock's hens plus rooster enjoying a field neld day d y in Betsy's vegetable garden Bul Bullock Bullock lock he roared Bullock came out immediately with hat and brief case My Mr Atwell he said my hens are in your gar gar- den Dont you think Ive I've got eyes in my head barked old Mr Atwell cc c Cr course they are I How did they get there ill 11 get them out right away Im I'm sort sori I guess the wind must have blown them over the fence Wind I Rubbish You pi pl those over in my garden n i pur pur- purpose purpose purpose pose and Im I'm going to have hava t b law lawon lawon lawon on you Bullock rescued the last from the shambles of his neighbors neighbor's gar gar- den He picked up his briel case caseI caseI I III dont don't think you'll bother the tIe law about it he said saidI I II I will so sol I mean business busin ss Now hold on Mr Atwell It It- was a shore breeze again last night t twit nt wit nt it Of course it was but b t you yoa tell feU that to lo the judge judge- And you cant can't prove the wind didn't blow my hens over the fence last night B went on Imperturbably imper- imper ly because you see the tho wind was at t. t least blowing In tho the i dire right n. n |
