Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-05-29
AT THE PARTY
The Chewing Gum Girl Tells of
Georges Adventures.

LUZ eyes MY COlu was 50 Ddu
couldn't get out
She gave few simple coughs, JUS
to show, and snuggled her chin down
in her feather boa.
Did you have good timer she
asked.
Honest, I never had a better time
in ali 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-hee- George
was there,"
Tee-hee-Was George there?"
Was he? You just bet he wasi"
And as Old Bates train rumbIed
homeward over the meadows the two
fair devotees of the art of stenography
and typewriting turned their faces
away from each other and Uttered
back to back, the one in "reminiscences
/ 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 a 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 cant 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, its too easy I says. All right.
says George, try it. And over he
came
Hold your head back. he says.
and l held it back Everybody was
snickering and he took the penny
and laid it fiat on my forehead and
pressed it down hard. Now SAYS he.
let's see If you can walk across the
room. So up I got with my nose in
the air as careful as if | was balanc-
ing a feather buster on my chin. Then
| walked across the room. awful slow
and gentle, not to jolt the penny OF.
Laugh? They screamed!
I never saw George look so fool
ish as when l got a squirt at him out
of the corner of my eye. Gee saws
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
Squeaied? We nearly died.
Gee l says. This is a cinch. [
believe 1 could shake my head and
keep the penny on So 1 shook nv
head, easy at first, and then harder.
and say 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 monkevshines
he penny hadn't been there at an"
Well, sir" she continued that
vas just the start, Next. George
iays. if there's any gentleman here
PRESENT who can put his heels against
he wall and lean over and touch his
oes without bending his knees I'll
ay any forfeit he's a mind to name?
-augh? O! You know some of the
elbows are kind of Jealous of George
nd they all thought this was
nance. George lined EN- all up
gainst the wall Ready saws he.
hey all looked set in the face and
odded their heads. One, Two,
hree!' says he. Fun? Say. they all
I'll over together and you know how
1t Tom Smith is? Wen. sir. when
e fell he bounced"
Miss Pennywate pretended not to
Ike it, gasped the girl with the chew.
lg gum You know she's awful old
nd as homely as a brush fence. and
hen she moved around the room
hispering that US girls ought to be
ore disniied everybody screamed
gain, for George had pinned a sign
her back and the sign said. Kiss
e, pleasei"
They bounced apart. and when they
ced each other again the favor Of
sorge's jest was still so rich with
EN- that they had to bounce apart a
cond time until the paroxysms of
cir mirth were secretly spent.
Well. sir" said the girl with the
ewing gum, we all went in to din
r then, and We hadn't got far before
saw that Mabel Wooley was awful
nervous She'd look at her plate
d then she'd look away. and then
ed look at her plate again. quick
d sudden. OF course We all looked.
}, and say! Every once in a while
r plate seemed to novel"
Move? Really
and true. and if there's any,
ng more upsetting to the nerves
n to have plate move I'd like to
wv what it is. George gave us all
wink and we found out later that
had little rubber bulb beneath
tablecloth under MabeTs plate
h a long tiny tube and another
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