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Show 1 THE STORY OF JENNIE l . h;..,,i,i-i.i in ... -J. ... I - I. .. .1 . . . ..j ...... , . I IUP. U. i - imf Am f rvsi 1 1 KfeiwlM (.til 1 L:Z3''5 , 1 Jennie's folks .were musical. 2 IJer father came of a long line ) of bass drummers. 3 Her mother played the brass ! horn. 4 They decided to give Jennie a ! musical education whether she liked I It or not. 5 They chose to make her a harpist, harp-ist, Jennie being too young to resist. ! 6 Jennie's first major recollection was seeing a harp for the first time ! and thinking It was the front of an animal cage. 7 She developed a fear complex 1 through spending her entire child hood fearing that the harp would fall on her. 8 But her parents never let up and Jennie became the child wonder of the community. 9 Everywhere that Jennie went her harp was sure to go. 10 That was the tough part of It. 11 But it meant that Jennie never got Into any Informal, Jazzy parties. 12 One day Jennie disappeared from home, leaving her harp behind. 13 Nothing was heard of her for some years. 14 Then It was found she had eloped with a young man who had been an assistant keeper in the hippopotamus hip-popotamus house at the zoo. 15 They had lets in common. 1G When located, Jennie had become be-come a harmonica devotee. Her husband hus-band made a living carving ornaments orna-ments out of acorns. They put In the long winter evenings together writing the Declaration of Independence Independ-ence on the head of a pin. 17 They had one son, Emil, n dwarf, who became a student of the atom. MORAL Let the kids develop their own way. |