Done with Dick and Jane

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"Air Mail for the airedale!"

"Are you sure, Mr. Mailman?"

"I'm paws-itive."

(Image source:  Charlotte Becker and Ellen Segner, Peter's Family, Scott, Foresman & Co., 1942)

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"I wonder which of her toys she stuffed into the pie this time?"

(Image source:  Charllotte Becker and Ellen Segner, Peter's Family, Scott, Foresman & Co., 1942)

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"Whoa!  It smells like grandad is back living with the Parkmans again."

(Image source:  Charllotte Becker and Ellen Segner, Peter's Family, Scott, Foresman & Co., 1942)

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"After paying, Mr. Simmons took his change in the form of the balloon man's wallet."

(Image source:  Charllotte Becker and Ellen Segner, Peter's Family, Scott, Foresman & Co., 1942)

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"Who's getting the noose this time?"

(Image source:  Charllotte Becker and Ellen Segner, Peter's Family, Scott, Foresman & Co., 1942)

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"Save room for the fish course."

(Image source: Corinne Malvern and Charlotte Ware, These Are Our Friends, Ginn & Co., 1949)

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"Hey, losers.  The von Trapp's called.  They want their outfits back."

(Image source: Corinne Malvern and Charlotte Ware, These Are Our Friends, Ginn & Co., 1949)

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"At yet another foster home, Eddie was set free into the wild."

(Image source: Corinne Malvern and Charlotte Ware, These Are Our Friends, Ginn & Co., 1949)

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"Save the sob story for the D.A."

(Image source: Corinne Malvern and Charlotte Ware, These Are Our Friends, Ginn & Co., 1949)

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"Pa!  Lucy got her head stuck in the fence again."

(Image source:  Juanita C. Bennett, In School and Out, Row, Peterson & Co., 1941)

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"The kids get so frisky in the summer." (Image source:  Juanita C. Bennett, In School and Out, Row, Peterson & Co., 1941)

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"Did you come up with that?  You two need to worry more about being dumb butt dorks!"

(Image source:  Juanita C. Bennett, In School and Out, Row, Peterson & Co., 1941)

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"The more we tear out of these textbooks, the less we have to study."

(Image source:  Juanita C. Bennett, In School and Out, Row, Peterson & Co., 1941)

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". . . I wear a suit.  I pretend that I read.  Still, she never notices me. . ."

(Image source:  Juanita C. Bennett, In School and Out, Row, Peterson & Co., 1941)

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"Sorry to ruin this story, son.  But this bus is off limits."

(Image source: Helen John, Many Homes, Rand McNally & Co., 1950)

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"Sorry, ladies.  I can't make this scene anymore.  My home is on the open road."

(Image source: Helen John, Many Homes, Rand McNally & Co., 1950)

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"He's the local bookmobile."

(Image source:  Helen John, Many Homes, Rand McNally & Co., 1950)