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Waupaca Republican

April 16, 1908

POCKETS

Pockets are fine

For marbles and twine,

For knives and rubber bands,

So, stuff them tight

From morning to night

With anything else but hands?

- Alden Arthur Knipe in St. Nicholas.

The following is the contents of a Waupaca’s small boy’s pockets as emptied for inventory one day last week.

1 lead pencil

5 matches

2 iron nuts

2 screws

2 screw eyes

1 small screw driver

1 nail

Black wool

3 pieces of string

1 rubber band

1 rubber washer

Small piece of watch chain

2 pieces of leather

1 piece of a suspender

2 brads.