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- 3788 I forgot about that. I forgot she always sleeps in D.B.'s room when he's away in
3789 Hollywood or some place. She likes it because it's the biggest room in the house. Also
3790 because it has this big old madman desk in it that D.B. bought off some lady alcoholic in
3791 Philadelphia, and this big, gigantic bed that's about ten miles wide and ten miles long. I
3792 don't know where he bought that bed. Anyway, old Phoebe likes to sleep in D.B.'s room
3793 when he's away, and he lets her. You ought to see her doing her homework or something
3794 at that crazy desk. It's almost as big as the bed. You can hardly see her when she's doing
3795 her homework. That's the kind of stuff she likes, though. She doesn't like her own room
3796 because it's too little, she says. She says she likes to spread out. That kills me. What's old
3797 Phoebe got to spread out? Nothing.
3798 Anyway, I went into D.B.'s room quiet as hell, and turned on the lamp on the
3799 desk. Old Phoebe didn't even wake up. When the light was on and all, I sort of looked at
3800 her for a while. She was laying there asleep, with her face sort of on the side of the
3801 pillow. She had her mouth way open. It's funny. You take adults, they look lousy when
3802 they're asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. Kids look all right.
3803 They can even have spit all over the pillow and they still look all right.
3804 I went around the room, very quiet and all, looking at stuff for a while. I felt
3805 swell, for a change. I didn't even feel like I was getting pneumonia or anything any more.
3806 I just felt good, for a change. Old Phoebe's clothes were on this chair right next to the
3807 bed. She's very neat, for a child. I mean she doesn't just throw her stuff around, like some
3808 kids. She's no slob. She had the jacket to this tan suit my mother bought her in Canada
3809 hung up on the back of the chair. Then her blouse and stuff were on the seat. Her shoes
3810 and socks were on the floor, right underneath the chair, right next to each other. I never
3811 saw the shoes before. They were new. They were these dark brown loafers, sort of like
3812 this pair I have, and they went swell with that suit my mother bought her in Canada. My
3813 mother dresses her nice. She really does. My mother has terrific taste in some things.
3814 She's no good at buying ice skates or anything like that, but clothes, she's perfect. I mean
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3815 Phoebe always has some dress on that can kill you. You take most little kids, even if their
3816 parents are wealthy and all, they usually have some terrible dress on. I wish you could see
3817 old Phoebe in that suit my mother bought her in Canada. I'm not kidding.
3818 I sat down on old D.B.'s desk and looked at the stuff on it. It was mostly Phoebe's
3819 stuff, from school and all. Mostly books. The one on top was called Arithmetic Is Fun! I
3820 sort of opened the first page and took a look at it. This is what old Phoebe had on it:
3821 PHOEBE WEATHERFIELD CAULFIELD
3822 4B-1
3823 That killed me. Her middle name is Josephine, for God's sake, not Weatherfield.
3824 She doesn't like it, though. Every time I see her she's got a new middle name for herself.
3825 The book underneath the arithmetic was a geography, and the book under the
3826 geography was a speller. She's very good in spelling. She's very good in all her subjects,
3827 but she's best in spelling. Then, under the speller, there were a bunch of notebooks. She
3828 has about five thousand notebooks. You never saw a kid with so many notebooks. I
3829 opened the one on top and looked at the first page. It had on it:
3830 Bernice meet me at recess I have something
3831 very very important to tell you.
3832 That was all there was on that page. The next one had on it:
3833 Why has south eastern Alaska so many caning factories?
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