The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-24
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By Lee Papa.

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 Ma had a fearse cold yestidday and, she sent me erroundsto t1l@ drug stoar to ask wat was good for it. and the drug stoar man sed, well, can eethfr give her sum u1edisin or packidge of these moo Puffo stgaretts, there guaranteed to cure 3. cold in 80 p1ffs.
 think she wood ratflir have the sigaretts, T sed. And I took hoan a packtdge and ma sed, wats this.
 SigAretts.. said if you srnoak 80 packidges you wont have eny cold ery moar.
 I To say the Ieest. sed ma. And she was going to send me back with them and I sed, wy don't you. keep them eryhow, ma, and srnoak wun jest to fool pop wen he kunns hoan -
 My. that's good ideer, think will, sed ma.
 Let me snoak w1ln, ma sed, I
 You get anutEIr think. sed ma, And went out and as soon as saw pop kuming hoaIn T ran in saying, lswiek, ma, sTnoaix wun, hes Running, hes skunillg. and ma lit wur as ksviclz as she cood, beeing in about minits. and sat in a cfare in the setting room and put her feat up avn the tabil and 7startid to 5uff 1t as if she moo how and pritty soon pop calm in and stood at the doaE, saying iown as eny- thing. well, watts aw lthis meen.
 April fool, deer. sed ma, thare ony Puffos for a cold.
 That may be sed pop, but you've smoaked sigaretts befoar. WilIyum, have not. the verry ideer sed ma, how dare you say sutch 2; thing.
 Bekause I can tell it, that's wy. sed pop. you've got yure feat up avn the tabi1 and ifeyou hadent snoaked cig- arettes befoar you'd. neyvir no enuf to D ut yure feat up, that's the unmistaAe- ahi1 sine of a, woman that's used to shocking.
 O. it is, sed ma.
 ' ess$ 1t is sed pop.
 We'll how do you no 1t is, sed ma l Watts that, sed pop.
 Well how do you no 1t is, sed ma. Watts that, sed pop. How do you happin to no that vim in put thare feat up wen they snoak, that's Wats sed ma Wy. I've seen them in picl<tures. sed sippose if. bleeve that you'll tell me anutEir wun. sed ma. e. we bettir let the subjeckt drop. sed pop.
 I jest gesa we bettir. sed ma.
 And they did. The kids erround our way had a piclxn1ck in the park yestidday, and wen calm hoam atartid to feal prttty funy but not feaNng funy ir eny speshil phase, and went in the setting room ware pop and ma was saying. Ma feaIs funy. I Ware. sed ma. don't nos I sed.
 Tn the stumruick, sed r1a l No mann, I sed.
 That boy don't no his stumnick rum his e1bo, sed pop. T gess IIlsIlafl T. ayshin to find out wat herts him l Benny. have you bin eeting enythins 1 avn that picknick you aSwtent to of
 No sid, sed, and pop sed, Wei kunsfdiring the fackt that thafes proberlys hing in hevxin above o1 eet, perhaps you betfir menahin tht various items you have consoome6 1 this aftirnoon,s slowly, wJn by wun The ferst thing we ct was san witches. sed. we swapped san witches and I had difrent kinds
 Naim them, sed pop, and II sed. sardeen sanwitch, "a fryed pertatc sanwitch, shrampp sanwitch, 2 strawrberry5 jelly sanwitch. a colo fryed egg sanwitch, anut11fr shrinpr sanwftch. a devvi1ed crab sanwitch and q ffuburgir cheese sanwiteh.
 That's a good start, sed. pop. wa eits did you eet. Five diffrent kinds of cake, anc then Puds Simkins cawt gold f1sf with a, bent pin. I sed, and we cooked it ovfr matches and he ate haf and ate haff.
 l Wen have a clue pritty soon, sec pop, go avn, wat elts. | About 12 lItteI appels we fcwnt l avn the grass undir a tree, sed.
 Wat kul1ir, sed pop. l Brown. sed.
 Wat, the appels, sed pop. t No sir, the tree, setl I We'll how about the appels, set pop.
 Green, sed
 Wat elts, sed pop, and I sed, On. moar things. and pop sed. Main them, and sed, Half a box of marsh rna.Aers and anuthir shrimpp san l witch.
 Of eorse. nuthing tn the life 0 man is absilootly serten, sed pop, bu have sort Of dim ideer that tn
 phase ware. you feals funny is yur stummdck.
 And ma gave me sum medisin tasting fearse. but pritty soon afti that felt awf rite, so it must of bi my stumsniek aw1 rite. z
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