The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-01-04
AT The PARTY
The Chewing Gum Girl TelIs Of
Georges Adventures.

II didn't see you at the party last
night" said the girl with the chewing
gum.
NO" said the girl with the soul.
full eyes. MY cold was so bad
couldn't get out"
She gavea few simple coughs, just
to show, and snuggled her chin down
in her feather boa.
did you have good timer" she
| asked.
Honest, ] never had 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 Struggled again, as in.
teresting an invalid as any one could
wish to see.
| WHO was there?" she asked.
| 20, everybody! Tee-hee-hee-Georgo
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: o." ..+
First on, 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 Nat on any girls forehead
and I'll bet she can't walk across the
room without II falling on"
'Tee-hee!" said the girl with the
soulful eyes.
Doesn't 1t 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 l held 1t back. Everybody wal
snickering and he took the penny
and laid II fiat on my forehead and
pressed 1t down hard. Now. says he
lets see II you can walk across the
room So up I got, with my nose ir
the air as careful as II was balanc
Ing a feather. duster on my chin. Their
! walked across the room, awful SLOW
and gentle, not to Jolt the penny of
Laugh? They screamed!
Il never saw George look SO fool
ish as when I got a squirt at him on
OF the corner of my eye. Gee, say
George. She did do II. but I'll bet sh,
can't walk back to her chair and 81
down again without knocking It of!
"Squealed? We nearly died!"
Gee ! says, This is a cinch.
believe l could shake my head an,
keep the penny on So shook m,
head, easy at first, and then harder
and say got wise at last! Whel
George pressed the penny on my fore
head in the first place no took 1
right of again and II only felt as IL
was there. And all the time ha
been cutting up those monkeyshine
the penny hadn't been there at all!
well, sir" she continued, "tha
was just the start! Next, Georg
says. II there's any gentleman her
present who can put his heels agains
the wall and lean over and touch hi
toes without bending his knees L
pay any forfeit he's a mind to name
Laugh? o! You know some of tn
fellows are kind of jealous OF Georg
and they all thought this was
chance. George lined 'em all Il
against the wall. Ready says h
They all looked set in the face an
nodded their heads. 'One Two
Three!' says he. Fun? Say, they a
fell over together, and you know no
fat Tom Smith is? Well, sir, whe
he fell he bounced"
Miss Pennywate pretended not
like It," gasped the girl with the che,
ing gum. You know she's awful Of
and as homely as a brush fence, an
when she moved around the roo
whispering that us girls ought to |
o more digniiied everybody screame
again, for George had pinned a sig
to her back and the sign said, Xxi.
s me, please""
:. They bounced apart, and when tn,
faced each other again the flavor
Georges jest was still so rich wit
them that they had TO bounce apart
I second time until the paroxysms
: their mirth were secretly spent.
We'll sir" said the girl with Il
chewing gum, I'VE all went in to di
a ner then, and we hadn't got far befo
r we saw that Mabel Wooley was awfl
ly nervous. She'd look at her pla
and then she'd look away, and tn,
she'd look at her plate again, qui,
and sudden. or course we all locke
, too, and say! Every once In a viii
her plate seemed to novel"
Move? Really"
: Honest and true, and II there's an
. thing more upsetting TO the nerv
, than TO have a plate move I'd like