Two Indians

(from MERRIMENT AND CHAOS WITH FIVE YOUNG ‘UNS
by Lois Myers Harris)

Albert as well as Betsy had good strong lungs as a youngster. They both should have been opera singers. Betty brought Albert to visit me in Alexandria when he was about five or six months old. The only way we could keep him from crying was to bang on the piano. We took him down to the Shirlington Shopping Center in his little stroller. On the way home, he put on a yelling and screaming act. Betty had to carry him back up steep Martha Curtis Drive to my apartment while I pushed the empty stroller. The only way we could stop his crying when we got indoors was to rush to the piano with him.

On day Nanny Myers was taking Baby Bucky for a walk in his little wagon. Albert was pushing the wagon when he suddenly stopped and ran into a neighbor’s yard. He had seen his little neighbor, Charlie Ledecker, in the yard, gave him a punch and returned to push the wagon.

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