The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-12
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I had a sour ball in my poclzit in skooI today, and I started to put it in my mouth sevril times and stopped half way on account of Miss Kitty looking as if she was locking every time, and after a vile we started the joggrjffy lessin, Miss Kitty saying, Everybody open their joggriffy books to page 104. Me thinking, G, heers a good chance.
 And put my joggriffy book in frunt of my face and quick stuck the sour ball in my mouth and stayed behind my joggriffy book sucking it, think favorite subjeck is, III tell them jog griffy.
 wich jest then Miss Kitty sed, Ben ny Potts, have you gone into retire ment?
 Meening for me to come out frum behind the joggriffy book. Wich I did, and Mss Kitty sed, And now that you are in our mist once more, I think III let you recite a. little. Sip pose yon name 5 large oceans.
 Gosh, me with this in my mouth, I thawt. And I stood up wondering weather to swallo the sour ball hole or leeve it drop out on the floor, think ing, Watts the d'@rents, wouldent get eny benefit out of it either way.
 We'll, go on, are you tung tied? sed Miss Kitty; and thawt, o we'll, maybe III get a little benefit out of it if I swa,llo it.
 Wich I did, choking a little but not hutch, and saying, At1anttck, Pacif- icEl, and Mediteranium Sea
 Have you enything in your mouth? |? sed Miss Kitty.
 No mann, I sed. Wich I haldent, on account of it being in my stummick by that time. And I sat down agen won dering if that's the way a ostrich feels after he swallows a hole potato, and we finished the joggriffy 1essin and started the spelling leSsin, me spelling everything rite exceut bentch with a t.
 Yestidday I started to ask pop for dime for the movies, and pop sed Look heer, young fello, how would you like to practice a, little economy? I aint got enything to practice it with, l sed.
 | I was jest coming to that, sed pop, do you think if I gave you 25 sents you could spred it over candy and the movies and everything elts for the baIlents of the week without bothering me agen?
 i G, yes sir, 25 sents, yes sir, sed. l Wich he gave it to me, saying, Are you sure you know the neening. of economy? and I sed, Yes sir, and pop l sed, Watts it meen? and sed, It meens not spending everything in one place as soon as you get it. We'll, you seem to have a shadowy ideer of the meening, sed pop. And tonite after suppir he sed to me, Well, young fello, hows the budgit coming along. how mutch of that 25 sents have you got left?
 Sir? 3 cents, I sed-
 Yee gods, sed pop is that wat you call economy? and I sed, We'll, l 1oaned some of it, so of corse III get that back.
 | I don't know about the of corse part of it, how mutch did you lend? sed 1 pop.
 l A sent, I sed. l o, sed pop, with a unsatisfied ix- pression, and I sed, Wei, I los% a lot of it, I lost ' cents, if I hadent of lost ' sents, G, jest think, Id have a dime left.
 Wat can you ixpect wen you go er- ~ound with holes in your pockits? sed pop, and I sed, No sir, that aint the way lost them, pop, I lost them put ting them in chewing gum slots that wouldent werk.
 Yee gods, sed pop, and, sed, Do you wunt to heer wat happened to the rest, pop?
 Il drather not, I don't think my hart
 IS strong as it used to be, sed pop.
 50 I dident tell him.