Radio mirror (Nov 1938-Apr 1939)

Abner unsuspectingly waved Lum off to spend his vacation in Europe Whitcomb, that is Edith, is talkin a blue streak to a curly-headed feller and Marcia is lookin out at the ocean like she didn't hear nothin. "Wal howdy Edith Smithers," I sed, intendin to remark that it was a small world, when I notised that she warent listinin or seein anything but the young curlyheaded feller. She sed to him, "How dare you take my pitcher and that of my daughter without askin our permission, young man?" The young feller sed reel meek, "Ime Dick Long, and Ime on a fotygraf expidition. I thot Ide get a pitcher of you and your daughter as typical American tourists." "Hmmmmph, typical indeed," sed Mrs. Whitcomb, maddern tophet. She stared rite past me at a feller in a uniform and sed real chilly that the young camary feller was up from tourist class and botherin the cabin class people, so the officer chased the young feller out. "I grannies," I sed outloud, "he seemed a polite enuf feller, Edith." She turned around and lifted up her eyebrows. "Why Lum Edwards," she sed, "did you see the nerve of that young man?" Marcia turned around and sed, "But we are tourists mother." Edith then looked very coldlike at her daughter and sed, "There's a diffrunce between those who go abroad because they have an spiritual meeting ground like us and those who go to see things." And she sailed off. Marcia waited a minit, then she looked at me. She said, "I thot he was (Continued on page 77) Above, wooden shoes may be all right for Hollanders— but not for feet raised in Arkansas. Left, Lum enjoys a bicycle ride with Marcia in Paris. 37