The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-03-05
AT THE PARTY
The Chewing Gum Girl Tells Of
Georges Adventures.

couldn't get out"
She gave a few simple coughs, just
to show, and snuggled her chin down
in her feather boa.
Did you have a good time?" she
asked.
Honest, I never had a better time
in all my life! Laugh? | 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! hee.hee-George
was there"
"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
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 of, George says, Say, I've
got new trick and of course we
were all crazy to know what il 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, 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
snlckering and he took the penny
and laid it fiat on my forehead and
pressed it down hard Now says he.
lets see if you can walk across the
room So up ! got, with my nose in
the air as careful as if | was balanC-
ing festher buster on my chin. Then
| walked across the room, awful slow
and gentle, not to Jolt the penny Off
Laugh? They screamed!
Il never saw George look so fool
ish as when got squirt at him out
of the corner 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 cinch. !
believe | could shake my head and
keep the penny on SO | shook my
head, easy at first, and then harder
ana say got wise at last, When
| George pressed the penny on my fore
| head in the FIRST place he took il
| right off again and it only felt as if II
was there And all the time | had
! been cutting up those monkeyshines
the penny hadn't been there at am
well, sir" she continued, that
was just the start, Next, Georg,
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 q
! chance. George lined 'cm all III
against the wall. Ready? says he
! They all looked set in the face and
| nodded their heads. One, Two,
Thrce! 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 IL
like it, gaspcd the girl with the chew
! ing gum. you know she's awful old
! and as homcly as a brush fence, and
when she moved around the room
whispering that us girls ought to b,
more dignilied everybody screamed
again, for George had pinned sign
TO her back and the sign said, Kiss
| me, please""
They bounced apart, and whom they
| faced each other again the flavor OF
Georges jest was stll so ricl will
| them that they had to bounC, apart 2
second time until the paroxysms Of
! their mirth were secretly spent
well, sir" said the girl with thu
! chewing gum, we all went in 10 din
! ncr then, and we hadn't got far bcfor,
we saw that Mabel Woolcy was awful
! ly nervous. Shed look at her piats
and then she'd look away, and thrr
| she'd look at her plate again, quick
and sudden. or course we all looked
too, and say, Every onco in a whit,
! her plate seemed to move"
Move? Rcally?"
Honest and true. and If there's any
| thing more upscttng TO the nerve.
than TO have n plato move I'd Ike L
| know what IL Is. George gave us al
the wink, and we found ont later tina
he had little rubber bulb beneath
the tablccloth under Mabcls plat,
with long tiny sIbe and anothc
bulb, and every time George squeezed
this other bulb Mabcl's plate jumped
They bounced.
"I'll bet you all squoaled," said tn,
girl with the soulful eyes.
"Squealcd? We nearly died,
They got off at Pcapack, still decI
In Georges adventures, while over tn,
reaches OF time a faint echo sounded
80 ." ! knew him we'll Iloratio