The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-11
the while. Dough-" said Emmy Lou

swallowing mlSeraD iy
Mr.. Cato was modified. Forget now 1t
was A; A is do hero. Always in the flu
ture remember the first letter In the scale
Is do. Whenever you meet 1t placed ike
this, A Is do. a Is do
Emmy Lou ,solvcd she would never for
got. s dough. How or why or where
fore did not matter. The point was. a
is dough. But Emmy Lou was glad
when the music man went. And then
eano spelling. when there was always
much bobbing up and down and changing
az nl.ees and tears This time the rest
might forget, but Emmy Lou would not.
1t came her turn.
She stood up. Her word was Adam
And A was dough. Emmy Lou went SLOW
~ to get 1t right. "Dough-d -dough- m,
ADAM" said Emmy Lou.
They laughed. But dear teacher did not
laugh. The recess bell rang. And dear
teacher. holding Emmy Louis hand. sent
them all out. Every one must so. DESKS
and states to be scrubbed. nattered not.
Every one must 60 Then dear teacher
lifted Emmy Lou to her lap. And when
she was sure they were every one gone,
Emmy Lou cried And after while dear
teacher explained about A and do. SO
that Emmy Lou understood. And then
dear teacher said, You may come In =
And tho crack OF tho door widowed and IN
came Hattie. Emmy Lou was Glad she
was an Intimate friend. Hattie had not
laughed.
But that day the carriage which took
dear teacher 10 and from her home out
side OF towr-the carriage with the white,
weoly dog on the seat by the little col
orcd boy driver and the spotted dog run
ring behind-stepped at Emmy LOUIS
gate. And dear teacher smiling at En-
my Lou Just arriving with her school
bag, went in, too, and rang the bell.
Then dear teacher and Aunt Cordel!n
and Aunt Katie and Aunt Louise sat IN
tho parlor and talked.
And when dear teacher left. ell the
aunties went out to the gate with her, and
Uncle Charlie. Just leaving. put her in
tho carriage. and stood with his hat
lifted until she was quito gone.
"4At her age" said Aunt Cordelia.
ITO have to teach" said Aunt Katie.
How beautiful she must have been
said Aunt Louise.
Is" said Uncle Charlie.
But she has the little grandchild."
said Aunt Cordelia; "she Is keeping the
home for him. She is happy" And Aunt
Cordelia took Emmy Louis hand.
That very afternoon Aunt Louise be-
gan to help Emmy Lou with her lessons,
and Aunt cerdelia went around and
and get her lessons with Emmy Bou.
And at school dear teacher, walking
up and down the aises, would stop. and
her fingers would close over and guide
the labornE disits Of Emmy Lou. striv-
ing to copy within certain ruled lines
upon her slate the writing on the black
board:
The pen is the tongue of the mind"
Emmy Lou began to learn. AS weeks
q
tobbed up n place, although sooner or
later she slipped back. She was not al
ways at tho foot.
But no one. not even dear teacher. who
understood so much, realized one thing.
The day after q lesson Emmy Ton knew
1t. On the day It was recited Emmy Lou
1hnd lacked sufficient time to grasp II.
With ten words in the spelling lesson.
Emmy Lou listened, letter by letter, to
those ten drsned out five times down the
line. then tHice again around the class
Of fifty. Then Emmy Lou, having al
seady labored faithfully over 1t, knew
her spelling lesson.
And at home. it was Emmy Louis JOY
to gather her doll children In line, and
giving out past lessons, recite them In turn
for her children. And so did Emmy Lou
know by heart her second reader as far
. as she had gone; she often gave the
lesson with her book upside down. And
an old and battered doll dearest to En-
my Louis heart. was always head. and
Hattie. the newest doll, was next. Even
the Emmy Lous must square with Fate
somehow.
Along in the year new feature was.
introduced IN the second reader. The
second reader was to have a medal.
Dear teacher did not seem enthusiastic,
She seemed to dread tears. But 1T was
decreed that the school was to use
medals.
1T recess Emmy Lou asked Hattie
what medal was. The big fourth and
from which the little girls were excluded,
for the school was large and the yard
was small. At one time It had seemed
to Emmy Lou that the odium, the oblo-
guy. tho reproach OF being a little girl
was more than she could bear, but she
would not change places with any one.
now she was an intimate friend.
Emmy Lou asked Hattie what 1t was
this medal.
Hattie explained. Hattie knew every
thing. A medal was-well-a medal. II
hung on a blue ribbon, Each little girl
brought her own blue ribbon. You wore
1t for week.-Mrs. medal.
That afternoon Emmy Lou went roind
the corner to Mrs. Heinzs little fancy
store. Her chin Just came to Mrs. Heinz's
counter. But she knew what she wanted
a yard of blue ribSon.
She showed 1t to Hattie the next day.
folded in the paper. and slipped for safety
beneath tho long criss-cross stitches
which held the calico cover of her second
reader. w.
Then Hattie explained. One had to stay
head a whole week to get the medal,
Emmy Louis heart was heaYy-the more
that she had now seen the medal 1t was
a silver medal that said merit" II
was around Kitty McKoeghany's neck.
And Kitty tossed her head, And when.
at recess. she ran. the medal swung to
and fro on its ribbon, And the big girls
all stopped Kitty to look at the medal,
There Was condition attached to the
gaining OF the medal. Upon receiving 1t
one had TO 80 foot. But that mattered
little to Kitty McKeoshany. Kitty climb
ed right up again, 1
And Emmy Lou peeped surreptitIously
at the blue ribbon in her second reader.
And at home she placed her dolls In line
and spelt the black lessons faithfully.
with comfort In her knowledge OF them.
And the old battered doll, dear to her