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HE (fidgeting).-" Don't you get hungry yere?" SIIE.-"Y-e-s." HE.-" Well,-111),mother's going to send me a box and if you'd like to have a piece of chicken, and a bis- cuit, I'll send you some, who do .youpass 'em through?" SHE (shyly).-" Maybe Prof. McDaniel would pass it as we go to Math. class." Mr. McCloskev comes up to speak to Miss Heller. SHE(meditahvely).-';Ocar 11.1e,I'm dreadfully bored." HE (reAecti\rely).-"So'm T." SHE.-"Let's talk it off." HE.-" Any thing's doiug, its up to me to be in it-by the way-J'djust like to tell you that you arc the most up-to-date girl I have met in this' blinkcy ' town." SHE.-" r was just thinking the sa.me thing about you." H E.-" Let's call it off-that's a strike-" Suu.c-" You must be an old boy, aren't you?" HE.-" No, indeed, the only Satanic propensities r have are not evident-I-er- I just carne came last week-but here comes Green to speak to you. Don't forget we are strikes." SIIE.-" All rtght=say+hold all a minute" (as he moves off) "I just want to say that if I just don't get the right grin at oncc,-don't be discouraged. I'Hlearn soon, you bet, if I am new in the business." (At this point, I crawl leisurely around the other end of the room, and light-not on the bald- headed man-but on Miss George's collar just in time to hear her say-) "Dh, fudge-baby swal- lowed a ping-pong ball and broke his tooth on the rubber rattle!" WIN.-" Elsie, 1 reelperfectly dejected this evening over that bum box of candy I sent you. I ordered five pounds and it was only this morning that Hound that thatblock-head had only sent two pounds." ELSIE(coquettishly).-"Oh, that's all right. 01".Foster sent me two barrels of fruit and candy for my class this {'Yclling,-ancl I made out pretty we11"-. WIN(Iaconically).-" Oh, did you?" (Elsie gleefully shakes her head and r have to skee.daddlc to save my life. On my way across the room I overheard a sentence or two from Clifford Hancock and Miele Miller, 'who are both tearing down the wood pile a. la Carrie. My life is in danger, but 1 find __ 220 - -