Stamp collecting

When I was about 12, stamp collecting hit the neighborhood. At the Dime Store you could purchase a green World Stamp book. You could buy an envelope of stamps for nineteen cents. It was a large envelope and contained a great many stamps. The only trouble was there were often 30 of the same stamp. You had sticky things to mount them in the big book. The Bossler boys had started the idea so we made Kenny president. Every originator of an idea we made president. I was the only girl so I had to accept their terms. Most clubs we started lasted one meeting. This went along for two weeks. We traded stamps and actually had two meetings. The second meeting Kenneth's mother sang to us. After two weeks we found when we traded with Jimmy we were not getting stamps back in trade. We did not know what to do. Then we had an idea. The boys would get his attention and I would take the stamps back. I took mine back and then I got his attention and one of the others would get theirs back. When we were through we felt very elated but it happened again. We kept it up. Him taking stamps and our getting them back. Then our interest ran out and we let him keep the stamps.