her or something. That makes a hit with Horty because she don't hate herself an' she thinks this doll
woman a lallapaloozer. Yeah, a lallapaloozer, a corker! Yeah.
"About a week later Tom-that's Peters-shows up while Horty's there an' sees the doll. Tom's a mite
jealous of Horty with the kid an' asks her where she got it. She tells him a Madame Mandilip, an' where,
an' Tom he says as this is a gal-doll she needs company, so he'll go an' get a boy-doll. About a week
after this Tom turns up with a boy-doll the lick-an'-split of Horty's. Mollie asks him if he pays as much for
it as Horty. They ain't told him about Horty not paying nothing for it or posing. Mollie says Tom looks
sort of sheepish but all he says is, well, he ain't gone broke on it. She's going to kid him by asking if the
doll woman thinks he's so pretty she wants him to pose, but the kid sets up a whoop about the boy-doll
an' she forgets it. Tom don't show up again till about the first of this month. He's got a bandage on his