(xx) A Very Pleasant Noon Hour

Well sir, our friends who live in the small house halfway up in the next block have only just finished their noon-day meal as we join them now. They're assembled in the living room and saved and young rush are enjoying a brief recess between eating and dishwashing.

The master of the menage is speaking at the moment and we hear him say I was half a man and I fell on my inclinations and stretched out in the Devon Port and caught up the office until I'm not to expect me this afternoon.

Sleepy? Overwhelmingly so. You ate too much, Galley. True. Also I slept in unconstrable a number of hours last night. Her feathers stay in bed longer than his regular schedule calls for. He finds himself drowsy, languid the next day.

Watch out or you'll get to be like Gully Hooker there in Dixon. Name Gully Hooker eludes me. Father was straw boss on the railroad section game. Uh-uh. You remember Gully? wore one neck tied down his back and one neck tied down his chest.

Had two parts in his hair. Oh, you must have known, Gully. What do you want to say, buddy? Great, fella for sleep. Fell asleep while he was proposing marriage to Gertrude Skiedel. Dicks and people joked about it for years.

Gully and Gertrude were sitting on the sofa and Gully started his little speech about his great love and would Gertrude consider him as a husband and so on and so forth. and finally quit talking in order to wait for his answer and Richard said she'd have to have a minute to think it over and

pretty soon she murmured he asked and looked at Gully and there he was sound asleep with his mouth open very romantic no Nixon people talked about it for years who was witness to this tender table Vernon Skeetle, Gritter's little brother, he was hiding behind the bookcase Good food except golly. Oh sure. Uncle Fletcher tells me they live in Belvedere now. Got five children. All girls.