Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-12-18
AT THE PARTY.
The Chewing cum olrl Tells OF
0eorgs'e Adventures.

night" said the girl with the chewing
gum.
NO." said the girl with the soul
full eyes. my cold was SO bad 1
couldn't get out"
She gave few simple coughs, just
to show, and snuggled her chin down
in her feather boa.
did you have q good timer" she
asked.
Honest, / never had better time
in all my life Laugh? l thought
I'd die! I'll bet they could hear us all
the way to Horse hill Too bad you
missed it."
The girl with the soulful eyes
coughed and snuggled again. as. in
teresting an invalid as any one could
wish to see.
who was there?" she asked
20, everybody! Tee-hee-h ee-Georgo
was therei"
"Tee-hee-Was George there"
WAS he? You just bet he was!"
And as Old Bates train rumbled
homeward over the meadows the two
fair devotees of the art of stenography
and typewriting turned their faces
away from each other and Uttered
and the other in anticipation until at
last they suddenly bounced around
and faced each other, whereupon the
girl with the chewing gum shut her
eyes, opened her mouth and spake
as follows:
First off, George says, Say, I've
got new trick, and of course We
were all crazy to know what it was
Now here's penny says George,
I'll lay it fiat on any girls forehead
and I'll bet she can't walk across the
room without it falling Off >"
'Tee-hee!" said the girl with the
soulful eyes.
Doesn't it sound easy, though?
The rest of the girls held back, but
you don't catch me with cold feet.
Why, it's too easy | says, All right,
says George, try it. And over he
came.
Hold your head back he says,
and held it back. Everybody was
snickering and he took the penny
and laid 1t fiat on my forehead and
pressed it down hard. Now says he,
let's see if you can walk across the
ROOM So up / got, with my nose in
the air as careful as If | was balanc-
ing feather buster on my chin. Then
7 boz Al
and gentle, not to jolt the penny off,
Laugh? They screamed!
Il never saw George look so fool
ish as when | got a squint at him out
of the cornep of my eye Gee says
George. She did do it, but I'll bet she
can't walk back to her chair and sit
down again without knocking it off!
"Squealed? We nearly died."
Gee, | says, This is a cinch l
believe l could shake my head and
keep the penny on So l shook my
head, easy at first, and then harder,
and say-I got wise at last! When
George pressed the penny on my fore
head in the first place he took it
right off again and it only felt as if it
was there. And all the time l had
| been cutting up those monkeyshines
the penny hadn't beep there at ALL"
We'll, sir she continued, that
was just the start! Next, George
says, If there's any gentleman here
| present who can put his heels against
| the wall and lean over and touch his
toes without bending his knees I'll
| pay any forfeit he's a mind to name
Laugh? o! You know some of the
fellows are kind of jealous of George
and they all thought this was a
| chance. George lined EN- all up
against the wall Ready says he.
They all looked set in the face and
nodded their heads. One Two!
Three!' says he. Fun? Say, they all
fell over together, and you know how
! fat Tom Smith is? Well, sir, when
he fell he bounced"
Miss Pennywate pretended not to
like it, gasped the girl with the chew
| ing gum. You know she's awful old
and as homely as brush fence, and
when she moved around the room
whispering that us girls ought to be
more dignified everybody screamed
again, for George had pinned sign
to her back and the sign said, Kiss
me, please!"
They bounced apart, and when they
faced each other again the flavor o.
Georges Jest was still so rich witt
them that they had to bounce apart Z
second tine until the paroxysms o
their mirth were secretly spent
We'll, sirJ' said the girl with thu
chewing gum, I'VE all went in to din
ner then, and we hadn't got far before
we saw that Mabel Wooley was awful
Iy nervous. She'd look at her plat,
and then she'd look away, and thel
she'd look at her plate again, quicl
and sudden. OF course we all lcoked
too, and say! Every once in Will
her plate seemed to novel"
Move? Really?"
Honest and true, and If there's any
thing more upsetting to the nerve