Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-15

a $ the grown.up ueighbor descend
. Il ed the stairs something fiuttered
4 n across the floor of the living
room, there was a smothered ripple Of
laughter. then scrambling. scratching
sound. followed by silence.
'WeH," soiloquized the grown-up
neighbor audibly Il thought / heard
somebody down here. hut there doesu' t
seem TO be any one, so / must have been
mistaken
She shook out the buster she held in
her hand and began busting The chair
nearest her. There was a suppressed
giggIr from behind the sofa The grown
. up neighbor turned her back elaborate
a. toward the place from which the
sound emanated and continued her work.
There was slight scuffle, another sup
pressed glgElc, then somebody shouted
Boo"
The grown-up neiEhbor gave a dra-
matically realistic start, which brought
forth q yell Of joy from behind the
sofa. In another moWent the small
noighbor came rolling from under the
piece OF furniture, head first She
claspcd her hands delightedly as she
scrambled to her feet
You didn't know was here, did
youe" She questioned, capering ioyously
about the room. 81 fooled YOU! ] fooled
you good"
The grovn-up ueighbor sank into a
chair, overcome apparently by -sheef
amazement
well / should think you did she
responded 20 don't know that ! was
ever SO fooled before in my life IN
fact. I was the most fooled person you
ever saw How long have YOU been
here e''
Hours and hours and hours" said
the small ncighbor5 81 waited and
waited and AN the time YOU We're jusr
sitting upstairs and didn't know I was
here" She giggIed again. after which
me- gradually wriggIed Herself into the
largest chair I'm The room until the soles
at her small shoes were presented TO her
friends vision She eyed the grown-up
neighhor expectantIy Tor "a moment
81 don't suppose. she remarked.
smoothing out her little petticoat care
fully and noting the effect with side
long holdings Of. her head, that YOU
noticed that ! have on my old dress
70 used Co be my best dress when il was
new, but it isn't any more Again she
paused and eyed the grownup neigh
Dor Then she lifted one small foot
and carefully examined the sole of the
shoer. The dress" she repeated. with
a faint emphasis on the word, lis quite
old
ITS such a pretty dress, though. 80
said The grown-up neighbor "Didu {
you wear IL once before when YOU were
over hsreY
"Poos"" CALCULATED che small neigh
Dor. rsTher impatientiy. II wcared IL
hundreds and hundreds Of times It's
just ass old as 10 can be- she polished
the other shoe teneerly- with the palm
q her hand. 81 have some mother shoes
that belong Go This dress" she said.
but they're old ones. These shoes have
shiny buttons"
$50 I noticed" responded the grown
up ueighbor
The small neighbor sighed a little
~ have on my old stockings" she re-
marked
lUi lleA re pretty SlothlhN-t Ssil0
the grown-up neiEhbor. Il should think
you'd like 90 wear them"
They're awful DID," rejoiued the
small neIFhbor Years and years Old
My petticoat is old. too"
"They don't show their age" the
grown-up ncighbor assured her. 81
think they look quite young
The small ncighbor with some diff
Guilty crossed one fat Icg over the other
knee.
"I have some white shoes" SHE
unused. "bur they're OLD. too. Some
times they get black black as your pl-
ano. Then my mother puts some white
stuff on them and makes them white
again had them long time ago.
And once" she went ON. IL had some
pink SHOES and ] wore them and wore
them for years and years. until they
were very old. and then I gave them
To my little cousin Eve had lots and
lots of pairs OF shoes Dozens and hum
dreds like new shoes better than old
ones. don't you2
% don't know that ] do" said the