A Pumpkin and a Prince 



managed to accumulate for those rare 

 events as much as a dollar and a 

 quarter, but a dollar and a quarter 

 doesn't go real far when you are in a 

 toy shop every day for two or three 

 weeks before Christmas with the win- 

 dows and show cases overflowing with 

 marvelous gaily painted tin soldiers 

 and jumping jacks and monkeys that 

 turned wonderful somersaults over the 

 top of a stick! As for the glorious 

 "Fourth," fire crackers cost fifteen 

 cents a bunch and torpedoes ten cents 

 a bag, and if you commenced when the 

 other "fellers" did in the morning and 

 kept it up until near noon you needed 

 a lot more than I was ever able to 

 purchase. How I envied those pluto- 

 cratic playmates who were able to 

 enjoy the tremendous thrill that at- 

 tended the firing of a whole bunch of 

 the little red "crackers" all at once! 

 Then lemonade, peanuts and soda 

 water added grievously to these early 

 financial difficulties, especially on those 



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