The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-30


ed out, "Oh! Don! we forgot some
body, Don, listen Don, a very i'm
portant person., Margaret Liven-
good.
Gosh! but most slumped
through the floor. Maggie Liven-
good! Phew!! Listen to me, are
you deaf? l screeehed out.
1--WE can have her and have her
we whistles a nice girl. Don,
now you know she ISL!
"Oh! my!--Oh my!" was all
that my voice found to say, "Oh
my!"
And then and there, while I fair
ly danced about her in anguish, in
treated her not to have "Old Mag!
The toothless hag!" as we called
her to the house party.
She wrote down her" name, call
ed "her" up and told her" she
was to come. And then "Dottie"
took the list of names in to show
uncle who was a preacher. But
when l heard him call this phrase,
l most screeched. How wonderful
are the ways of the Lord!!!
Second Part.
Well the next Tuesday the kids"
all came, Z o'clock was the hour
set for their arrival, but somehow
they all were there by "six!" Peo-
pie always have to come, you know
at least an hour before time think
ing that they can be of help!-and
then pretending to be surprised at
seeing so many there. Others like
to attract attention by being late!
come in about a half hour after
the set time, saying, ooh, I'm so
sorry, so sorry-never been late be-
fore! Four really were late though
the train was mean-you see
Stanley and Ernie st. John, and
John and Mary LeMerin-court had
to come from Indianapolis. But
we were all there, and ready for
the night by $3.50.
There was a large furnished bed
room at the top of the house fixed"
specially for this kind of thing, so
I'VE" decided that wed" all sleep
in it as there was bath with
dressing room at each end.
We brought cots from the barn
and placed ten in a row in each
aleove. The east end was for the
girls and the west for the boys.
By ten" we had all piled" in
bed and were thus Gas far as aunt
and uncle were concerned) fixed
for the night" But not so with us,
no not so! AS soon as pulled
the covers over me, as soon as |
was just feeling nice and warm and
comfortable l heard someone say:
"Oh, Buzz!" CHATS my nick
name) ooh! Buzz!"-It was Jack
Earlenhouse), where's that pitch
err of ice water" Its over there
by the desk, on the table, around
the corner in the alcove." said
Don't spill it-what do you want
it for anyway" why to get a
drink from, what'ja suppose, you
big hunk O. cheesen" Lying
around the corner there on ten
penny cot!!'" Likewise yourself"
l flung back at him, and dropped
off to sleep a moment later.
You'd better not skip the next
chapter cause "somp'tins gonna
hap'in!" as Speedy Evans says
and I'm not going to write any
more stories because it's so much
trouble hang it," And if I'd known
it was gonna to be so much trou-
BILE | wouldn't of started this in the
first place. But Aunt Poll-Par-
rot!"-I mean Aunt Polly says
that l simply gotta finish it, SO
| can expect to put in the next
month or two writing down a lot
of meaningless words on so many
scraps of paper. But I'm getting
tired now and | must go to bed.
I'll put a couple "a more pages IN
next week."
CONTINUED sometime ere other)
-Northrop r. Elmer.
Dear Hunk O. Cheese" | insist
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