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h!! Say, Listen! J,c i *f By Orrio Lashin I ;lr• V-—-----:! CbPNancy is this other crirI who is; staying in this far as house. She:X very swank and smokes cigar-j 15 because she flunks the na-'; tives arc shocked, but otherwise \ ^ Uh*re is practically :ic difference! j between us. She is big anti likes! j athletics fcui personally f couldn't’TV0\lleven try t.o swim the channel.I Come for a walk with tne,! he says, We'll bring our lunch j I land not come back “111 evening.; I I can't. I says. I didn’t even! | fbriug them kind of shoes, •Oh. come on. says Nancy, i J What did you ccme up here ror* i to sit on ih« porch? ; ^No/* I says, it Is true I did:£ • rot come to the country to sit. on!; the porch. I '‘Then come along. says she,I and get acquainted with the1i • ^•countryside and with nature.No thanks, I says. But don't •worry, i'll see a lot of this coun-; n‘UT-,, !v Ha, ha. si;n taunts me, All; ^right. You sit there and you wiir 0!se a lot of this country. It willq 'all come up to you on the porch. i-TVell. you know that saying—\ 1she laughs too soon who laughs' Q' first, \ r;That evo, when I met Nancy at Flipper. I says: j'TWell, how far did you get? J f,As far as the falls. she says. ^?victorily. Then I went up that’^ [ridge of mountain that you ciuiifj ! see from the back of the house.‘-r !’T certainly covered a let of] i ground.'Every bit of ten miles, Ljssys she.[ Really? I says, very irdiffer-: enLBAnd how far did you get?!.she says, 1| Well. I says, very modest, 'T‘ iwent as far an Anoka dam. l: think that is fifty miles.Yen—what?“It is really a shame if you. ; don't see the dam. r says. Then f—let's see—oh. yeah, then I went !to Albany and I had lunch there. j Are you kidding me? says she. ;Oh. no. I says. I would not-think of such a thing. But ycu: [forget there is more ways of seeing the country than walking. * There was a fellow come by. and'*«9■he had a car— • g
Newspaper Details
Logansport Press
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sun, Sep 12, 1926
Page 4
Full Page
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Steven Z.
NA, 28 Jul 2021
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