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Show - e, ii IT WAS such a boring thing t tori I have to promise to do somi;; oi thing for some one at leaf hy one good deed each week. Itltj phi Norris wondered who had eve, as started the fool resolution huslnealo th "flood afternon and happy Nc italic Year to you, Miss Norris," Jeff Si.il foi wards called out as she stopped few lo a couple c.f magazines at the eo lith ner shop. daw "Thanks, but this happy Nesr v Tear stuff is the bunk. Isn't It? Ca:,py ( you Imagine I that wm It 1 I've tramped thiaitio: town over tli; afternoon trying ma to find some outbid for whom could do mWg first good dee;roo! of the year-resolution, year-resolution, y o j.-an know. Could A th find a thing t iluni do I could not I of "That's funnvitiiti I always though- pro there were s many such deed e to just waiting t cum be done t h a rati' there weren't enough folks in th m, world to de them." -wif "You're wrong, Jeff; that's no- t. the case; I know," she afiirmec .aim but still he looked doubtful. Mm "You must come back some ev( sii nlng when I'm not busy and I'Itii f take time to name a few such deed '.re t waiting to be done, Miss Norris,!, he told her, a smile on his lips, bu ilr a frown across his brow. Mo "That's a bargain," she called ou wl and started back to her little aparl f i ment In the Carol Flats. ;Hr, But Just before she reached tin si big doors of the Flats she heard ;Hn light tapping on the window nex ilin, to the street. Little Janet Merchan ,lk waved and then threw a kiss to hei sai And as Rita waved back, a though s , struck her, so she hurried Into tti. -st; building and straight to the Mer. chant apartment "Come In, Miss Rita; my dadd.-'m had to go to work a couple hour; earlier than usual today, so I wa ,v hoping you would stop In to s:n., me." Little Janet, a motherless lili;1 tie tot, had to stay alone while be father went out to work. J iV: Three hours later, Just as Kit , finished melting some butter to pu:s f over the huge pan of corn she ha r just popped, she told Janet al ,,,,, about the resolutions they ha-,,1; made. "And to think I chased nl-ts,,, over this town trying to find som :lis one to do something 'or and her i,v right before my very eyes. I foum-t,, . all kinds of good deeds to he done..,)f "And Miss Rita, I think Nov :iist Year's 'resolutions are the grandes , tl, things ever, I do. Don't ym? Janet asked, happy tears shlniniiai, In her eves. ,.'r;l Tl.ev are Inst the stuff. I d sny And I'll ti'M i''"" s" " 1 S,'e l'U again, too!" ( ri3. Western X'n'1'' ',nluu' |