Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-21
Little Benny's Notebook
b. LEE pAPE.

BIZ LEE PAPE.
J was bringing home a duxxin eggs
rum the store yestidday aftirnoon.
and ! was wawking along thinking OF
sumthing elts and threw tho bag
Z up and cawt It agen. thinking, Gosh,
@. better be carfill. there's eggs In
hecr lA
Wich Jest then I met Skinny Mar
tin. saying. Hello. Benny, watts IN the
bak. cakes?
No. eggs, / sed, and he sed, Aw.
eggs.
A duxzen eggs cost more than
duzzen cakes eny day, sed.
That don't say they're werth more
sed Skinny Martin. And he started
to wawk alongside of me, saying,
bet you cant jump the alley In one
jump.
And he did It In one. and sed.
That's q simtch. that's a been. And
took long run with the eggs and
did 1t In one too. only I fell down
wen I landed and almost sat on the
eggs but not quite. saying. Gosh. that
was a narrow ixcape. better be care
fill, these eggs brake easy.
: o well. YOU haff to brake them wen
you use them anyway. don't you? sed
Skinny Martin.
And we kepp on going, and Skin
ny Martin jumped over fire plug
without using his hands, and so did
/. ony the bottom of the bag hit the
top of the fire plug while / was going
over. but not hard. me saying. Gosh,
Ill brake these eggs yet n ] amt care
an.
And ,ident do enything more to
them exsept axsidently bump them
once agenst telegram pole, but not
hard, thinking. g. it'll be a lucky
thing IL none Of thems broaken. l
better be careful. And I took them
in the house, and ma looked in the
bag, saying. Well for pity sakes.
there's not one single hole egg in heer.
@ well, you haff to brake them wen
you use them anyway, don't you!
sed. Not sounding neer as good wen
l sed it as wen Skinny Martin sed 1t,
and making ma mad as enythinS and l
had to stay in after suppir for saying
that more than for breaking the eggs.
Me and Pubs Simkins was wawking
I'D the alley and we came to the back
OF Skinny Martins house and climbed
up on the tents to wissel for Skinny
and wat did we see laying in the grass
but peetches. me saying, G, look at
the peetches in the grass, sumbody
must of dropped them.
And we sat looking down at them
and forgetting We had got up there to
wissel, Pubs saying, l tell you lets
watts do, Ill drop down and carry OF
them into the kitchen and Mrs. Martin
will give me one for finding them, and
then you can carry the other in and
she will give you one for finding those
A3.
WITCH we started to do, me dropping
down on the outside of the tents and
Pubs dropping down on the inside, and
] opened the gate little to see If
could heer, witch could, Pubs saying,
Good aftirnoon, Mrs. Martin, / got up
on the tents to wissel for Skinny, and
] saw these peetches laying in the
grass.
Yes, sed Mr.. Martin, I put them
there to get ripe, you can keep one Tor
your trubbel but please put the others
back with the rest, and don't allude to
him as Skinny, his name is Algernin.
Meening Skinny. and Pubs sed, Yes
mann.
And he came out with the biggest
peetch. and ! went in and picked up
The peetches off the grass and went
and looked in the kitchen door, and
Mrs. Martin was making dough in
bowl there, me saying, Good AFTERNOON.
Mrs. Martin, climbed up on your
fents->to wissel for Skinny, Algernin,
and saw these five peetches laying
in the grass.
NJ o you did, did you, well, may be
an easy mark, but I'm not that easy,
now you get rite out and put those
peetches back ware you found them
and go home and wash your face, sed
Mrs. Martin. And she shook one hand
at me so hard peece of dough came
eff of it and hit me rite in the eye.
And / quick put the 5 pitches back IN
the grass and went on rubbing the
dough out of by eye, and Pubs was
finishing the last bite Of his ppetch as
* he lad lest ate it in a fearse hurry
Proving some Of the best ideers awt
to ony be tried once.