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The first boy cap on the first boy haircut, for the first day of school. All the tragedy of all change in that haircut to mother. Epochal barbering that shears away an era of life! Mother has saved one lock from the ruin. Sweetest years are locked away with that curl in mothers drawer. First Day of SchoolCoal wagons are beginning to crunch the gravel driveways. They still use horses to haul coal in our town. The roar of anthracite down the shute draws all the children on the street. The coal man takes the ice mans place in their interest. The ice mans boy has gone back to school. Next week hell be in football armor and his customers children will cheer him as their hero. Signs of FallIm not pounding her head. Im just patting it. Der, der, dont cry, ittle baby. Cant I just rub it? Why hasnt she got any eye winkers? Wont she get dirt in her eyes? What does she chew the air that way for? I guess shes hungry New Baby O, Dad, put it in the paper that Stewie found a snake. Ill tell you how to write it. Stewie Downs picked up a snake on the street where he lives an swinged it round his head an then he threw it away. Gee I most ran right into it on my tryke. I thought it was a piece of rope or somethin. Know Somethin Do you love me? How much, a bushel? Do you love Grammy a bushel too? How much do you love Mummy? Do you love the baby a bushel? How much do you love Tip? Just as much as the baby? Mummy only loves Tip half as much as the baby. She loves the baby and me the same a