The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-08-07
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does II cost very mucn 10 build q
house?"
His father laid down the newspaper
he was reading and considered the
question.
1T depends, of course, on how big
house you want to build and how
deep your purse is" he said at length.
Are you thinking OF building
house,"
I've been thinking about how much
il costs" Bobby said And wonder.
ed. There's SO many winders and
doors and things. OF course, parlor
windors cost more'n cellar winGers,
cause they're made Of better glass.
Now, Jimmy, he says some parlor
windcrs cost So, but then Jimmy al.
ways puts prices up awful high. Gee,
visit it wouldn't rain such lot.
We don't hardly get outdoors any"
ITS rather hard on baseball and
picnics. isn't it,"
well. we amt had any plans for
pl'IiNo sct, Hdiul.. i'ii'. says Jul
room at school oughter get up one,
but he begins talking picnics soon's
Christmas is over. Nellie Fosters had
one all thought out long ago, but It
amt fair to get up one that way.
81 amt in a awful hurry for any
picnics longs it's SO wet. It's baseball
that I'm looking for. I'd like to know
how anybody could run in all the
mud, less'n he was fish. 1t was
baseball started me thinking about
houses an things like that
Il suppose your idea was to build
a grandstand to protect the baseball
fans. Is that it, asked the father.
"N.not exactly" Bobby acknowl.
edged You see, we don't get any
fans 'ccpt fellers that don't want to
sit down. They get so excited they
just jump up and down, an run all
around. Jimmy he's a swell player
this year. We was playing yesterday
and this morning before it started in
to rain in the same dingcd old way"
"IIold on, That's no way to talk"
"Why. dinGcd' isn't bad. You just
oughter hear that fellrr from over on
Aunt Mary's street. Gee, that's going
some. the way he talks
u don't like that sort Of boy, my
self"
oh, well, he amt so bad" lobby
said, hastily "Ilc don't say EN-. you
know. lle just knows 'cm and keeps
still Only he told some words to us
fcllers wunst and they're worse than
'dingcd' Hes a swell player, only he
gets sore when the fcllcrs butt in.
You see, the iellers get so excited
they pick up the ball and throw 1t in
when they amt on the team at all,
and it makes him awful sore don't
blame him, do YOU"
NO, should think not They have
no business to touch the ball"
well, he made me crazy talking
about houses. It was him started me
and Jimmy talking and he said houses
often cost mOre'n thousand dollars.
He said you divide up thousand dol.
lars into winders and doors and you'd
find door cost heap. He said there
was about twenty winders IN this
house. Is there"
II don't think l ever counted them.
You might count them some day, just
for fun"
well. anyhow. he said he could
count 'em from where he was and he
bet each winder upstairs cost 81 and
a cellar winder cost at least s.. |
amt ever heard anything so foolish.
have YOU"
1T was perhaps rather high esti-
mate. Some day when we are over at
the glaciers we might ask him just
out Of curiosity how much one Of our
windows cost. A cellar window, for
instance"
II thought maybe We might go over
that way this evening II 1t stopped
raining" Bobby said hopefully. You
amt had a lot Of walking today, have
you?"
Not great deal"
Billy says burglars always get in
through cellar winders. Do they"
Not any oftencr than through other
| windows"
Once would be- often for me. Bob
by sighed. Pals 60 throGch winaers
awful often. think"
! $50 ball went through one lid it
| hope 1t wasn't where the hey would
get himself into serious trouble
No. sir. That's the nice part aboat
IT," Bobby said chcerfully 1t was
our window II won't tlrou-h INST a5
easy. this morning"
"Our window" Did the boy i,cl sor-
ny? I suppose he offered to pay"
"rm-well. I'm offering now p" Robly
stammered. 1T was me."-Ch;cago
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