was
just as popular with the crowd. I give up five thousand berries and a
outfielder for him, and after them two games I couldn't of sold him as
a watch charm to the manager of a high school club!

From all of this you may get an idea of the sweet humor I was in when I
blowed into the flat that night. My idea was to put on the feed bag,
and then go around to the corner and play a little pinochle with the
gang. Like the guy which fell off Washington's Monument I was doomed
to disappointment, because they was quite a little reception committee
awaitin' me. Among them present besides the wife was Alex and them
lovely Wilkinsons.

The lovely Wilkinsons consisted of the regular set--husband and wife.
They had only been wed about three weeks, new time, and from the way
they behaved towards each other, a innocent bystander would think they
had only staggered away from the altar a hour before. They sit
together on the sofa, three inches closer to each other than the paper
is to the wall and both of them must of been palmists judgin' from the
way they hung on to each other's hands. The male of the layout is a
husky kid which either come direct from one of the college football
teams or had just knocked off posin' for the lingerie ads in the
subway. The female would of been a knockout, if my wife had been in
Denver, but bein' in the same room with her the best Mrs. Wilkinson
could do was to finish a good second. They is one thing about the
wife, they may be dames which can knit sweaters faster than her, but
when it comes to bein' excitin' to gaze upon she leads the league! I
don't have to tell the world that, the world keeps tellin' it to me.
This here is far from our first season as matrimoniacs, and when I say
that it still makes me dizzy to look at her, you may get a idea of how
she checks up.

But to get back to them lovely Wilkinsons, they are sittin' there on
the sofa keepin' a close eye on each other, and Alex is givin' 'em
everything he's got in the line of chatter. They're both payin' the
same undivided attention to him that the Board of Aldermen in
Afghanistan pays to the primaries in Bird's Nest, Va. Them babies is
too busy gazin' on each other and bein' happy, and while that stuff
gets silly at times--they is worse things than that.

After we have got the introductions all took care of, the wife rushes
me down to Delicatessen Row to grab off some extry food on account of
these added starters at our mode