Show rosebud is eight and the most beautiful sha shade d e of caramel fudge to her loving mammy and pappy she is known on approximately al ternate days as angel and you devil child it was on her devil child days that rosebud tied the knots in the shirts that mammy had taken in for washing and poured the whole ot of the vanilla bottle into the lamb stew just she said later through tigh bitter tears to flavor it up some on her angel days rosebud is equally 11 1 imaginative n a t 1 v e even if a more reab aca restful 0 occupant bugl a n t 0 of f the little shack down on vinegar hill once when mammy was out doing day work rosebud got a wave of cleaning fever and scoured every pot and pan in the kitchen so that they literally glistened another day left alone she tidied up ti mammas and to such a point of apple pie order that it was a week before pappy could find an undershirt rosebud is a great eat reader of the newspapers Z mammy mm y and pappy dont take one but there are plenty of perfectly good newspapers blowing round vinegar hill it was out of one of them that rosebud got her idea for spending the ten cents the bunny had put under her pillow the night her tooth came out after breakfast rosebud disappeared down th the e hill and reappeared soon after with a beautiful ten cent war stamp pasted firmly into a brand new book with neat little squares for more stamps she displayed her investment to mammy 1 I declare youre an angel child mammy said rosebud went on sitting on the kitchen floor staring with large brown eyes at the empty squares in her book from time to time she took hold of ore one or another of her teeth and wiggled it gently mammy was engrossed in a particularly I 1 ticul arly big washing rosebud was as quiet as a mouse and mammy forgot about her until coming in from the yard with her arms full of dry sheets she encountered her child ch i id with a large hammer in her hand scenting the devil in her angel child mammy shouted at her rosebud dl come yere with that hammerl hammer what you planning on doing but what was done was done in rosebuds other hand was another tooth her mouth was stretched in a broad if slightly bloody smile 1 I aint doing nothing mammy she look said book im lust filling up my stamp story from an actual report in the files 1 I s ot of the treasury department 0 0 stamps say yes take your change in i war your tour investment in bonds war today will tomorrow save a payday for US |