there some time while I was there and I could tell Mother and Dad what a good cook he was when I got home, and I did.

After supper Uncle Richie said would I like to go to the movies; there was a double feature playing, and I said sure. We went up the street about two or three blocks and he bought me a ticket. I asked him wasn't he going with me and he said no and pointed to another restaurant with a big neon sign and said for me to come in there when the movie was over and he would be there.

One of the movies was a western with Vaughan Monroe in it. He was. the good guy, and it was all right with shooting and horses and all and he sang, but the second feature wasn't so good. It was with Tab Hunter and how he and some lady got cast away on some desert island off of a marine troop ship that got torpedoed by a Jap sub and how they got all mushy and started to kissing and that kind of stuff until a man crashed his airplane there in the war and loses an arm and had a fight with Tab Hunter and they got rescued. It was awful gooey with a lot of old love stuff.

After the movies I went to the place Uncle Richie said he would be and he and Uncle Jay were there. They were drinking lemonades. Uncle Richie asked me if I wasn't tired and hadn't I better go to the apartment with him now and go to bed. I told him yes because Mother said if I didn't mind Uncle Richie she had told him to send me home on the next train and I didn't want to go home. Besides I was kind of tired. While he was walking back to the apartment with me, Uncle Richie said he was going to take me sightseeing tomorrow and to see the double header between the Senators and the Yankees on the Fourth which was on Saturday. I asked him didn't

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he have to work tomorrow and he said his boss had let him off this afternoon and tomorrow both. While I was getting undressed and ready for bed, he set up an army cot for me in the living room and asked me could I sleep all right there did I think, and I told him sure I could. Then he showed me where he and Mr. Leathers slept and the kitchen. There wasn't but one bed there, in the bedroom I meannot in the kitchen-but it was a double bed and Uncle Richie said they were going to buy another bed when they saved enough money, but they were saving money to buy them a better car right now. They sure did need another car.

When I was in bed in the cot, Uncle Richie said he was going back out for a little while and would I be scared there by myself. Huh, I'm twelve I said and there's nothing to be scared of and he wasn't going to be gone long anyhow was he, and he said no.

I woke up when he and Mr. Leathers, I mean Uncle Jay, came in. They were laughing and talking and Mr. Leathers couldn't walk too good. I mean Uncle Jay. I keep forgetting. I didn't let on I was awake and they kept on talking even after the lights were out, only I couldn't hear what they were saying real good. I dropped off to sleep then.

I woke up early the next morning and went into Uncle Richie's bedroom after I went to the bath room. Mother tells me always to go to the bath room first thing when I get up, and I do. I woke up Uncle Richie and he said my god what time is it and I told him the clock said sixthirty. He asked me to hand him his bathrobe and did I know how to light a gas stove. We've got a gas stove at home I said and Mother lets me light it for her sometimes. Go light the burner under the water kettle he told me and he came in dressed