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- 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?
3834 Because theres so much salmon
3835 Why has it valuable forests?
3836 because it has the right climate.
3837 What has our government done to make
3838 life easier for the alaskan eskimos?
3839 look it up for tomorrow!!!
3840 Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
3841 Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
3842 Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
3843 Phoebe W. Caulfield
3844 Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield, Esq.
3845 Please pass to Shirley!!!!
3846 Shirley you said you were sagitarius
3847 but your only taurus bring your skates
3848 when you come over to my house
3849 I sat there on D.B.'s desk and read the whole notebook. It didn't take me long, and
3850 I can read that kind of stuff, some kid's notebook, Phoebe's or anybody's, all day and all
3851 night long. Kid's notebooks kill me. Then I lit another cigarette--it was my last one. I
3852 must've smoked about three cartons that day. Then, finally, I woke her up. I mean I
3853 couldn't sit there on that desk for the rest of my life, and besides, I was afraid my parents
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3854 might barge in on me all of a sudden and I wanted to at least say hello to her before they
3855 did. So I woke her up.
3856 She wakes up very easily. I mean you don't have to yell at her or anything. All
3857 you have to do, practically, is sit down on the bed and say, "Wake up, Phoeb," and bingo,
3858 she's awake.
3859 "Holden!" she said right away. She put her arms around my neck and all. She's
3860 very affectionate. I mean she's quite affectionate, for a child. Sometimes she's even too
3861 affectionate. I sort of gave her a kiss, and she said, "Whenja get home7' She was glad as
3862 hell to see me. You could tell.
3863 "Not so loud. Just now. How are ya anyway?"
3864 "I'm fine. Did you get my letter? I wrote you a five-page--"
3865 "Yeah--not so loud. Thanks."
3866 She wrote me this letter. I didn't get a chance to answer it, though. It was all about
3867 this play she was in in school. She told me not to make any dates or anything for Friday
3868 so that I could come see it.
3869 "How's the play?" I asked her. "What'd you say the name of it was?"
3870 "'A Christmas Pageant for Americans.' It stinks, but I'm Benedict Arnold. I have
3871 practically the biggest part," she said. Boy, was she wide-awake. She gets very excited
3872 when she tells you that stuff. "It starts out when I'm dying. This ghost comes in on
3873 Christmas Eve and asks me if I'm ashamed and everything. You know. For betraying my
3874 country and everything. Are you coming to it?" She was sitting way the hell up in the bed
3875 and all. "That's what I wrote you about. Are you?"
3876 "Sure I'm coming. Certainly I'm coming."
3877 "Daddy can't come. He has to fly to California," she said. Boy, was she wide-
3878 awake. It only takes her about two seconds to get wide-awake. She was sitting--sort of
3879 kneeling--way up in bed, and she was holding my goddam hand. "Listen. Mother said
3880 you'd be home Wednesday," she said. "She said Wednesday."
3881 "I got out early. Not so loud. You'll wake everybody up."
3882 "What time is it? They won't be home till very late, Mother said. They went to a
3883 party in Norwalk, Connecticut," old Phoebe said. "Guess what I did this afternoon! What
3884 movie I saw. Guess!"
3885 "I don't know--Listen. Didn't they say what time they'd--"
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