Show orgy of birthdays t t by RING IRING LARDNER fr MM im KM M vo co the editor g i 1 well here it Is the open season n for again and on monday morning I 1 mr fur front yard looks like the chau had bad stayed a couple of 0 week I 1 atra last sunday they was 10 or 1 of them little what nots bots from herolt parked in line along the rort rod ro rt d id ed a beveral evera I 1 p passer as derbys bys thought wo we lust at be having a auction or bang sad and come up op to make Inqui rys fid d I 1 was wag about ready to get sore hen a kid about 13 yrs ars old that longed to one of the plen leers pointed to our cow and rays bays oh ob look lamma jamma they bare got a cow on that tate state f well you cant stay very mad bey icy call your joint a estate and it if ne of them will pull something like lat at every sunday I 1 will try and not lake ake no holler boller about them ering the front lawn with bread nd d sardine cans but I 1 cant help via m wondering what that boy would t called the swope place next door here they have got a 4 or ft amed ont and I 1 suppose be would of afek aimed it asia speaking ing about the cow this ami aint bossle the one ue ne had but a bran L lw ew w one as flossie had bad finely become became a ornament the new one dont s em eem to be no DO special brand and nt int got no family tree or nothing be ie to Is plain black and when we first t her we left it to the kiddies to re her a name and they thought it I 1 all one day and then give tier ner ie name blace elacie le kids will think of the d t dogs but for some reason adoth I 1 P blackie dont seem to like her lime ime at lease she acts mad all the me e and has showed signs 0 of f a spirits it seems that on me parts of the estate theys quite growth of what akey call wild gar cibich now cow could possibly khoy eating it but blackie eats it set get even and I 1 will say she gets ien ie en sometimes you can shut your eg s wile imbibing the oatmeal and stend ebend you are enjoying the 4 hie ble de hote at madame gallis A few days of warmth and sun son ine certainly made the estate look dutiful when all the flowers and sessoms gomsi was out all told they was 1 bloom 1 oom at bile one time 4 hyacinths 11 0 cusses a JJ dozen tulips and the wt it orchard the last named Is auckly hid bid behind the garage so as at picnic parties cant enjoy IL it last it yielded pretty near a straw ty box full of plums which come ia a big surprise as when we bought s i t place they told us as it was a 1 erry tree EIn i Annual nual work started last wk on A tennis court the men promise jt it have it ready by sept this yr as iff dey aint near as much to birto if to it as other yrs ars as this winter ity ik I 1 J of it caved cared in personably Ierson Perso naly aly I 1 agit in no hurry burry as I 1 agree with the bafs rr IS tennis that a man cant i lie ite and play tennis both and it ta hole lot less trouble to write enuse when you play tennis you 1 af l to wear special white shoes and its and shirt but you 1 00 can write in almona and slippers and in fact ae of my best writings has been le ie entirely bare foot bree of the 4 liddles was born tile the spring time so we ae been baling te a orgy of birt birthdays birthada hda vs and gen 11 lly when h th theys one in right bight we ask ji hero ero of same me what he would like presents and d boft always the kiy Is a pony or a sail bont or a rot of or something else that they it t no chance chabre of dim getting ut lut the ad boy Is different and tois his birthday and we asked I 1 a wk ago what would he be ellke t he says he would like something t would clean the rust off his cle that Is the way be has at al is been and will III always be the ie ie way DO dol wanting nothing bothin and ing tg Is probably vi aliat hat he will get e mrs decided a wile nile neo ago that flout is a about ume time we was allting a vehicle to ride the ki dilles back ath to school and bak as the 1 ae we had been using for unit that pur ur I 1 I 1 tile the lust last 3 or 4 yrs ars uis its acting g I 1 of sullen so we culled up the llie land and told him film to bring brin something ething ind and so we asked him blin could trade rade in our old one and he looked ame and kind of swallowed hard mys ny yes he would hilf to t take it to port washington to get it ap red aed we was seared scared to death to tor r a day as port washington Washing tou Is 4 a from here arc the betting belting wilts i k that the good ld id aagott r complete the round trip but bat lone done it all right and the deal closed and the papers signed and the biddles Is squaring nei bei e all tile the fun hn has been took loch out ladr air dally daily trips to and from y avs always insisted on telling betting in baab V I eback seat beat of the old car and t 2 days out of every 5 the nia ma donld part in the middle eliher either t or coming and when the driver julito jt lito school or home and turned glied jerf to let thern out they ere but ifould be a mile or 2 up op ae troad tt oud oad in the buck back A of the car ito ang lying at him artt t to Is about all the great neck lionly only that everybody Is axt 41 of the spring rains being over lj iveans means that the electric lights lighta 1 probably stay oo on pretty regular id theys a breeze or it t gets get J or something a bv br the tb bell syndicate incao |