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Skippy Bedelle: His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World
By Owen Johnson
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Owen Johnson writes about the incorrigible and passionate young Skippy Bedell, a boy exploring his world and finding it to be not quite satisfactory enough. Excerpt: "The thought of girls was inalienably connected in his memory with unnecessary washing up; with boring parties; with stiff collars; with unending polishing of shoes; humiliating walks down the avenue, stammering, idiotic phrases, while from every window the eyes of malicious friends were set in mockery. Girls never slid down the banisters or fell out of apple trees, snapped garter snakes, raised white mice, or collected splinters coasting down the icehouse roof. Girls were always spruced up and shining; always covered with pink ribbons and waiting for callers; always dressing and undressing; always kissing their worst enemies in public instead of giving them a dig in the ribs or treading on their toes and whispering under their breath…"
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