Little Shirley Beans

I started walking over to Broadway, there was this record store that was open on a Sunday and I wanted to buy Phoebe this record called 'Little Shirley Beans' I hear it when I was at Pencey and knew Phoebe would love it. So I bought it , they charged me 5 bucks but I didn't care. I knew where Phoebe would be so I started to walk towards the park near the mall, thats where she liked to skate, at the Bandstand. When I got there I couldn't see anyone around, so I asked this little kid if she knew Phoebe, she didn't look to sure, but then she asked me if I knew her and I said I was her older brother. Then the kid told me that she was in Phoebes class and that I would find her in the museum probably, the one where the Indians were. The kid was having a hard time tightening her skate, so I helped her. It had been ages since I had a skate key. So, I said thanks to the kid and asked if she would like to come with me and have a hot chocolate, but she said no thank you, she was a really polite little kid. I didn't feel much like going to the museum. I just remembered the times we went when I was a kid. All the different exhibitions wih the Indians, and the one with the Eskimo that was sat catching a fish and everytime you went, he was still sat there catching the same goddam fish. There were these huge glass cases either side, enclosing all the old objects. It made you think how even though the things in the cases stayed the same, whenever you went, you always be different. Liked have a different partner or something like that. Sometimes you wish some things could just be kept in a glass case and kept the way they are. I thought about that as I walked past the museum. I had that goddam date with Sally, so had to get a cab down to Biltmore.