Good Housekeeper Volume 71 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ... sed come down here quick so i piled out of bed and put on my close as lifely as i cood and went down 3 steps at a time, when i got there father told me to come out in front of the house and to look and i done-it and there on old J. Alberts side of the house was a sine whitch sed J. Albert Clark we have broak your winders, this is jest a beginning, moar anon, bewair bewair. the Terible 3. i looked as sirprised as i cood and sed gosh father then it was the Terible 3 and they was trying to get even with J. Albert insted of you. i wunder what he has did to them, but father sed i dont cair what he has did to them it cant go on this way verry long befoar sumone will be in jale. when he sed that i felt as if i dident have enny stomack. then he hollered for J. Albert and old J. Albert come down and when he saw the sine and father had told him about the broaken winder he sed he shood go down to the polise stasion and make a complaint and see if innosent peeple aint going to have enny pertection under the law. then father sed have you did ennything rong to ennyone Albert whitch mite want to get even with you and old J. Albert he sed he hadent done rong to a living sole as far as he gnew and he sed i gess George they must have got on the rong side of the house and they ment it for you insted of me and father sed that may be so Albert but it is almity quear that they shood call me J. Albert Clark and hang the sine on your side of the house and J. Albert dident know what to say to this and so he sed i gess that is quear but peeple do quear things sumtimes. then father sed have you heard how they hung a snaping tirtle on old man Tiltons doorgnob and rung his bell and he went to the door and got so badly bit that it took 3 doctors to sow him up. and old J. Albert sed no ...