The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-18
say anything, though 1 thought they

say anything, though I thought they
| would.
I s'pose I'd oughter known better
| than to make any for such little gin.
| as Effie Stanley, but then I didn't. You
| see she had all good straight pins, and
| then she wanted em SO bad.
| But by that time the chalk was a
getting awful low, and I didn't know
what to do. But sat down and thunk
and then I remembered that I'd seen
| teacher with some kind of white stuff
in her desk, and I just up and Dor
| rowed some while she was reasoning
with Mary McGinty out in the hall.
Then I had plenty of stuff for my
powders.
/ made up just a dozen for her, and
she took 'em home all right, but the
next day she came to school crying and
said that they was all lost So I went
and made her some more. That was on
Wednesday, and that very same day
l heard ma and sister talking about
how artful sick Effie's grandfather was
and how they'd had to have the doctor,
and then the next day Effie didn't come
to school,
I thought of course her grandfather
must be dead, and I went home and
told mother so, and she went right
straight up there. and was gone so
awful long that l made out it must be
real true. and began planning out all
that I'd do when he was buried, cause
Effie's grandfather was one of the men
that sit on our school boards That is
they say they do, but I don't believe it.
I've been around that school an awful
let, but I've never seen any of them
sitting on the boards yet. But [ knew
If he died we'd get out half a day.
cause we did once before.
When ma did come home she had "a
with her. and they looked awful Sc
| rious Somehow l didn't quite like the
way that pa said, where's that boy:''
and so I just sneaked down the back
steps and went over to Mrs Saunderses
to get the sugar cooky receipt mas
been wanting SO long.
1t took Mrs. Saunders quite a good
long time to write it out, but Just the
same I had to take lit and get home
before pa had left for lodge, and so it
all came out that night
But 1 don't know-nay be it was the
best thing after all. Beds about the
most comfortable place when you feel
sore in body and spirit. as our minister
says. Only it was mostly my body that
night ,aff1aT
Grandpa Stanley hadn't died after
ALL and they said as how it was me that
done it. Whether they wanted him to
Or not I don't know-but from what
they said it kind of looked that way.
You see Effie, she'd taken home those
powders that I'd made, and kind of left
'em around, and Grandpa Stanley he'd
got hold of 'em, and thought they was
some that his doctor gave him, and he'd
eaten 'em right down, and the white
stuff that I'd found up in the teach
er's desk, that had made him awful
sick, and then the doctor, he'd come
and left some more powders and
Effie'd got 'em all mixed up With the
second ones I'd made for her, and there
1t was
She'd tried to feed 'em to her dolls
and I guess those dolls was the only
things in the family that had good
sense, cause they just didn't take 'cr,
but il made Effie feel bad, and so Jus;
to make things even, why she went
and took 'em herself.
Of course, as they was the really
truly powders, why they made her aw-
full siok-just as sick as her grandpa
was-and there the doctor was with the
two of them on his hands.
Well, of course they was a-wond arina
what made it all, and so they got te
| asking Fife and her grandfather all
about it, and Mr.. Stanley, he talked