The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-18
TOMMIE TURNS DOCTOR.

Girls is awful ounces. I've always
known it, but now I'm real sure.
They've been and got me into dread
| full scrape, and l couldn't help it at
ALL 1t was just circumstances beyond
my control-that and girls.
| You see it all began back at school.
Our class went and grew too big for
| the room, and so they had to go to
work and make the room grow lit
| tie, too.
| They was funny little platform
along one side that they'd had for
speeches and things, and they went
and put some seats up there, six OF
them, and then they put some boys in
the seats.
| l was one of the boys. 1t was real
nice at first, because we could see way
| all over the school, and l could read
the notes that the girls was writing
on their states in the row right be-
low me, but then it got over being
nice, because teacher she could see us
so awful plain.
But then, that was only when she
was looking that way. There was 9TH
er times
But it wasn't the platform that was
the beginning of all my troubles 1t
was the blackboard that went along
the wall behind it. 1t was a black
| board they used an awful lot and
there was lots and lots of chalk dust
settled down in the little shelf under
it, l could reach the shelf real easy,
| and it was lots of fun playing with
| the chalk dust.
They was lots of dust, and some
times I'd stir it all up just before
| somebody went up there to write, and
then they'd sneeze and sneeze, SOS
sometimes they couldn't do their work.
Dust chalk's awful tickly stuff when
it gets up your nose It's almost as
good to give folks as pepper, only it
don't smart so bad.
It was along about that time that
ma went and got the homeopathy doc
tor and, come to think of it, she had
good deal to do with my troubles,
! too, cause if ma hadn't a called him
in, why, I'd never seen his little
white powder papers, and if I'd never
seen his little white powder papers
we'll, | wouldn't of had to go around
| looking for cushioned chairs to sit in,
like I'm doing now.
Well, but did see EN- anyhow, and
the next time that I was a stirring up
that chalk dust, why it just struck me
all of a sudden how much like the
stuff in his powders it looked, and
without hardly thinking, l put some
of it onto my tablet paper, and began
cutting it up into little pieces, and
| making powders.
| Arty McGinty's sister was a sitting
right beside of ME. Generally she
isn't so bad, as girls go, but she didn't
any morn'n see that powder n she
gave a funny little squeal, and wrote
On her slate for me to throw it down
to her.
Teacher didn't happen to be looking,
an so l did, and will you believe it,
at recess that day every one of those
crazy girls in that room came over an
wanted me to make powders for 'em
Said they wanted EN-. to feed their
dolls. Now, amt girls just the silliest
things you ever saw?
Well, you can better believe l wasn't
going to do all that work for nothing,
and | told the girls so. But they said
they didn't care-I could charge 'em a
pin for every powder. and they'd pay,
and so that was just exactly what L
did. And / had whole lot to make
up, too.
That far it was all right The girls
seemed to like EN-, and the dolls didn't