The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-01
LITTLE BENTrqYsS MfHTEl ROnK
By Lee PaE1e.


 My cuzzin Artie slepp with me last light. my bed beeing about big enun for wun ordinary persin or boys and aftir we had taw1zed a vile about different things we startfd tc go to sleep, and afttr we had bin going to sleep about 15 nainits Artie sad. hay, stop pulling the lruvvirs aVvf 0f me. will you, how do you lxpeckE me 10 no to sleep
 And he pulled the kuvvirs back avn him asen and aftir a vile was awlmost asleep and woke up avn akkount Of feeling an ornll jerk, bee ing Artie trying to ge gum kuvvirs agen.
 Hay, cut that out I sed
 Cut it out yureself, sed Artie, wat are you a,wI tho time pulling the kuv- virs aWf of me for.
 We'll WY don't you keep hold Of yure end Of the l<IKvvirE sed
 How can I go to sleep and keep avn thinking about holding the kuv- vtrs at the sazn time sed Artie- And we starttd to go to slsep aEen. and aftdr a vile thare was anuthir fearse jerk and what vvaG it but Ar tie trying to get part Of fhe E9virg agen.
 Hay, are you going to stop that. sed.
 You kwit taking ang1 the Ieagvirs and III stop it. sed Artae. look st tlaats yure rolled rite up in them. wal 60 oyu think you are. a cocoon or Wat
 Well wy don't you roll yareez ID in yure end and then cent ta4e
 tTyed to, but calm llnro1led. asd Artie.
 So we kompermszed by me ta1zlne the blankit and Artie taking the 1.aeet and rolling ouvself up and aftiP thas we slepp awl r1te-
 Me and pop wss taking e szaSzs t1ir aftfrnoon and who did we see lrtlEa1lzG l but MT. wilkins veellng his baby and when he got up to ms the baby @E1- I i'd to point at pop and make funny if he moo hows and 1r. v71Ilz1ns Dads well look at that now, well wood you look at that the child axutIly mes you Potts.
 Noz nuthing, seq pop. it's trgine Co insult me, that's wat its d9inGs 70 I an insulting noaze wen I heer Nun-
 Don't be reedickilus, sed Ar. Pgll- kins, Winfield woodent Insult Ags I hutch less you. he no1a yous I Lon you. he noze you AwI rite, then he noze me ssd fscps l Potts, yure jest saying that ssd AEr. l wilkins. ! no you don't reely blseVe he noze you, now tell you how % prove it sfppose you put yure 1-1e down and see wat he duz-
 Suppose don't sed pop. | o, go 4Wns SeO MT " lAAAAA-Ae EAs yure fase down
 Go avn, pop, do it sed. Serteny not, sed pop, wy snood
 Meerly to prove that the child noza | you, sed MT. Wilkins, look at hiu1 | now, how hees making fasss at you he reckerndzes you awl rite.
 Well if that's wat he dug wen he reckernizes a persin, Id hate to think I wat he wood do if he moo me verrg {, well, sed pop.
 Go avn, pop, T sed. put y1sre fase down.
 VIII you shut up about that fase bizniss, sed pop l Go avn, Potts, put it cowns 1els 1 for a seckind, sed MT. Wilkins. We'll, if that's the ony way can | satersfy the publiclx clamor, aWl rite, sed pop. And he put his fase down in frunt of the baby and Waz did the baby do but kwick as Htening stick his finger in pops eynN
 CRTtch, yelled pop. Ana he straten- ed up agen with wun hand ovdr his eye, saying. So that's wy you wuntid me to put my fase down is it. taa.te bewtifin trick to teetch a child, that is.
 Nonsents, sed MT. Wilkins. sware he nevvir did that to enybody befoar in his life, the ideer of insinneratiuis that he did 1t avn perpuss- And he startfd to weeI Winfield away pop rubbing his eye and ka.lling aftir hlll1- It was a kIevvir trick awl rite F8il- kins. how Iawng did 1t take you Co Iteetch 1t to Aa-as