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and atarted for the door. "Did you to see me, but after a while I heard the
lav* trouble? M she aske^.
itflif croaking, ^ I turned over,
"No.** I wanted *o tall hut I'd been pretending I waa asleep. *Ihn light,
whan be pushed the door open, made
are you cobs?H she asked. me turn on my hack, and 1 heard "Out." I got toy lied and ran away Mm coming closer and then he Seat
from Da house. I didn't know where I down on the bed and touched my
wu going. I went up the next Mock boulder.
iyi ont to tb* hill, but I didn't want "Joe," he said. "Joe mine," he aaid.
to did*, After a while, 1 waked back. "Don't want to aee the old man?" he
m> nobody would oee me, and cot into
the toenmunt through the aide door. I I turned over, end he could see I found an empty beer cue end eat by hadn't beta sleeping.
the furnace, my hand* in my pocketa. Right then I believed pa would
"Hello, Joe," be said. "Hello, pa." He had his hands be
never coma borne. I believed be had tween hie legs. run away. 1 believed he had gone back "Ma caysyouwere a good boy, went
to the Old Country and we would all to the coalman for her.
aterve here, and freeze, and ma would "Yeah."
have to be e washwoman.
"You know, Joe, 1 had a good trip,
I stayed in the beaement until it wna made over a hundred doUara."
darkoutaide, and then I meaired out That didn't bring my gold piece
again. It waa eo cold I went into the
house. I ate aupper without laying "Next week I go again. Every week
anything, and aa aoon as I waa through, till wring. Looks good for this family
I went upstair* to my room, ana I now/' He grinned.
wouldn't let Phil follow m* or come in "That's swell." I wanted him to
with me. 1 closed the door end laid on laave.
tha bed in the dark.
He put his hand in his shirt pooket
Isaw metenyears from now meeting like he waa looking for a cigarette. "I
Mr. Kraft and punching him in the stopped by Kraft's," he aaid. "Thought
Boae. I saw me with a big atom of my maybe ma didn't sarkd lor groceries."
own right across the street from Mr. I was quiet.
Kraft's, and I would get all hie business "I paid him money on the bill," ha
and he would be poor and have to said*. "1 told him tiungs are diffluent
dose. I saw me behind a counter in my now; hack is changed."
store, and Mr. Kraft came hi and J I didn't asy anything.
wouldgivehim a jobeweepingthe atom. "I told Kraft I'm Micky now," ha
Then I heard Martha yelling, said. He bent does to me, and at first
'Daddy!" and Phil yelling and ns I didn't see it in his Mnwl- "1'toU Mm
talking, and I could hardly keep from I'm lucky man, because 1 got beet boy
running downstair*, but I stayed on im could have." He pushed the gold
Kthe bed. I guess 1 didn't want to aee * oe does, and he got my hand with
him. It was his fault 1 didn't have my
and dropped it in the palm, rinsing
gold piece. I got out of bed and my fingers over it.
opened the door An inch, but 1 didn't " I told him my boy Joe ia my tuck,"
hear anything.
pa aa.i.d..,..a..n...d...h...e...bent dos>t ai nd 1'
I wont hack and laid on the bed and my forehead and nibbed my hair till
was mad because he didn't even want the scalp hurt.
m END
KEY JINX
it ia usually a depression--a damp depreasinn, a muck-fiUed hols or an area
(Cuniinmudflmm Fugu 49)
of true rack ben
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kit wasn't very imposing: a oanvas hag higher oi I
for snails, if any; abottle of cold water; followed I
s package of raisin crackers, which die for a o I
liked; a bug bomb and some patent point B> I
bandages for brier scratches.
twenty f I
They ducked under the tree and the key.
went on. The road forked. She cboaa "Mak
the hae open branch, which ran to body sol
the left. It waa so overgrown that hope it I
THESE ADS
These Gliddsn ads are beln . . . and they or# really & take advantage of them . .
they began at once to walk around sap people d I lings In the middle of it, to wade Bills|l through brush and to dodge under She lei
and watch point sales jump Th. May 8th SATURDAY E
limbs. It became fairly aoon a tunnel longer a |
with indistinct footing. It peased an There ton | abandoned shanty, stove in by wind or herself til
ods. Others ran (n the Issu and coming on May 77 is
tons. Then there waa no road.
stead, ab I
Paint od In history!
"You aaid," Bill cried, "one was pine m I into soft I
Talk about this advertising
sure did." "Look!"
through was brig
. .. and customers ready to
On a small gumbo-limbo tree tha and bee
lavender member of the ligua family much da
climbed oontsntedly.
was like
"How wonderful. Bill! Do you which D ________________ ________
know, if we never find another snail the it rim aaw a stretch of mangrove with
day is a great suoooss? "
water visible under theroots. It almost
Bill aaid, "Lookit."
turned her back.
She peered deeper into the surround But Bill, squinting through the snarl
ing trees: she could see, here and there, of leaf and branch, aaid, "We could
more of the same species slowly, ai- climbover it, MiasEUiaaon. It'snotvety
lantfy moving in the shadows. She ex wide. There's trees on the other side."
amined dozens, selected three, and re "You go Azat," she aaid. That way
turned the rest to their habitat
ahe could grab him if ha slipped and fell
They went on, leaving the lavender into the murky water.
family behind. The ground, to her sur Moving through mangrove# is not an prise, rose a little. On the keys it ia art, for no one baa found a means of
generally fiat and if it has any contour
(CtnliiiHri m Pefe 159)
GUD33't00
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
MY HITS --
AND MY ERRORS
(Continuedfrom
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by Joe DiMaggio, Joe Gordon, Tommy Henrich, Charley Keller and younger follow* like that.
1 rooted for Lou to hold hla own in this new combination, and to keep putting hi* consecutive-games record
further out ofany future player'sreach. And for a long, long time he came through. But then I began to hear some strange stories about the Dutch* man. Lou had a terrible spring eeason in 1939. and then sent word to me that he was going to the Mayo Clinic far a checkup. In June of 1939 the eountry
learned the worst--that be had a ran form of infantile paralysis. His great streak ended at 2180 games.
No matter hoar long I Uve, I'll never forget the least detail of the Gehrig
Day at the Stadium--July 4. 1939. Lou spoke as 1 never thought I'd hear a man apeak in a ball park. Every word be said plainly mm from his heart, and the big crowd of more than
60,000 warn obviously affected. The Dutchman spoke of Mom and Pop Gehrig, and Eleanor, hfa wifs*and what the Yanks had meant to him, and whan be said, "I concider myself the lockfast man in the world," I couldn't stand it any longer. I went over to him and put
my am around him, and though I tried to smile and cheer him up, I could not keep from crying.
way--getting your answers by t
cry end deduction before looking at the ads. You can play the game es solitaire n use It as a party game by having your guests bring their copies of the Poet, then cnooee up aides.
Answers on Page 192
1. For a starter, let's test our vocabulary. Among products adver tised this week an G*ne Needles, Musettes, Petros and Quonaeta.
a. Would you us* a Gam Needle in the garage, the music room or the sewing room? 6 points.
b. Would you put the Musette in tbs dining room, the living room or a storage closet? 6 points.
c. Would you put a Pvtro in Quonaet or a Quoneet in a Fetro? 6 points.
2, On a single page, two replaceable filter^ are advertised. For 3
_ nnlwty
wo substances are filtered?
[E SALES
bout . . . everywhere . Have your dealer* ham in windows . . .
for the geography daas. 8 points for each of is. nut are the Mountain* oi the Moon? y does meet balsa wood grow?
a the world's richest crude oil found?
W free, a capacity calculator to prospective the purpose of the calculator? 5 pedals,
i black, white, rose orchid, powder blue and Ints, la the product blouses, showar curtains, eats or upholstery material?
POST features these
g hints on food preparation and suggestions teinad from your Amana dealer. For 5 points,
10 and April 24 . . .
>d slogans with the lettered products, for 6
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'(for value, a. Automobile, e. Prefabricated
dealers enthusiastic
(precision, b. Candy.
home,
be finer, e. Luxury f.Trailer.
Id . . .
cruise. g.Vacuumckanei.
rtl d. Nalldippers. h-Wrist watch,
sh# social graces? S points,
rter Pembroke? 5 points,
you think of new highways, think of the big t build them." For 6 points, who builds tbs ,?
And now the 20-point question:
11. What magazine Is bought by nearly a million more dome* than any other roagasins?
Possible score 100
Your total score .
In two weeks you will have a chance to try to betteryourscore, when I shall have another fio You Read the Ads? game ready for you.
--HARLEY p. COOK.
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