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usually easy flow of talk was interspersed with certain stammerings and
stutterings. But Josie didn't come in often. She had a lot of dignity for a
girl of eighteen. Besidesshe was taking the teachers' examinations that
summerwhen the other girls were playing tennis and drinking sodas.
Eddie really hated the soda water end of the businessas every soda
clerk in the world does. But he went about it good-naturedly. He really
wanted to learn the drug businessbut the boss knew he had a drawing
cardand insisted that Eddie go right on concocting faerie queens and
strawberry sundaesand nectars and Kunz's specials. One Saturdaywhen
he happened to have on hand an over-supply of bananas that would have
spoiled over Sundayhe invented a mess and called it the Eddie Extraand
the girls swarmed on it like flies around a honey pot.
That kind of thing would have spoiled most boys. But Eddie had a
sensible mother. On those nights when he used to come home nauseated
with dealing out chop suey sundaes and orangeadesand saying that there
was no future for a fellow in our dead little holehis mother would give
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him something rather special for supperand set him hoeing and watering
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