for Jim's jokes and when he told them to come with him
and see some fun they give up their card games and
pool games and followed along.
Doc's office is on the second floor. Right outside his
door they's a flight of stairs leadin' to the floor above.
Jim and his gang hid in the dark behind these stairs.
Well, Julie come up to Doc's door and rung the bell and
they was nothin' doin'. She rung it again and she rung it
seven or eight times. Then she tried the door and found
it locked. Then Jim made some kind of a noise and she
heard it and waited a minute, and then she says, "Is
that you, Ralph?" Ralph is Doc's first name.
They was no answer and it must of came to her all of
a sudden that she'd been bunked. She pretty near fell
downstairs and the whole gang after her. They chased
her all the way home, hollerin', "Is that you, Ralph?" and
"Oh, Ralphie, dear, is that you?" Jim says he couldn't
holler it himself, as he was laughin' too hard.
Poor Julie! She didn't show up here on Main Street for
a long, long time afterward.
And of course Jim and his gang told everybody in town,
everybody but Doc Stair. They was scared to tell him,
and he might of never knowed only for Paul Dickson.
The poor cuckoo, as Jim called him, he was here in the
shop one night when Jim was still gloatin' yet over what
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