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Show 118 Ooh-ooh, much so much so very matter," said Edju. Helen got between everybody. She was certainly brave. "Why don't you come back aaaikaixi another time, Edju?" "Ooh so?" "Red's trying to kill us, Edju," said Jon. "He's been trying since the first day." "So very no no, so no," Edju said, waving his hands in front of him like fly wings. "Well maybe we should go," said Aunt Elizabeth. "Take me with you," pleaded Jon. "I'm afraid we're taking a cab back to the kaxi hotel," said Aunt Elizabeth. Red left the room and came back, standing behind everybody and pumping his bowling ball and getting redder and redder by the second. Things were slowly sifting into the living room so all of us at the table got to eat and watch from a distance at the same time, at least as much axxiaa distance as anybody got in that place, considering you could never really be safe. Bush had gone to the living room closet and got her coat. She was going somewhere no matter what, which was pretty straight thinking, I suppose that's why she'd already spent most her life beingxxlxxx old, having a real knack for flight. "Edju," pleaded Jon, "Take us to Stanley's." "Oooh-oooh," said Edju. It was getting pretty clear that good old Helen's half of the family thought Jon was nuts, even Edju, Mr. Flexible, and they wanted nothing to do with him. "I fought," cried Jon. "You don't know. I was responsible. You don't know how I cried when we gave the Russians Eaxiaxak Eastern Europe." "I'd say they payed rather dearly for it," said Aunt Elizabeth. Jon moved to Edju and grabbed his lapels. "Edju, I fought to save Europe. Tell him Mother. I offered my life time and time again to save the world." "And now his family rejects him," said Bush. "Who are we?" said Helen. "The Russians?" "Hmm, I have many, so very many aaaxixx countries, hmmm, fight," Edju told Jon. Bush threw up her hands. "Ttor- P»E?™tfld u?-" said Jon' "They kept Mother and X apart • |