The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-05

And reaching desk, boy down his
with Gathering reverberations.
Emmy Lou watched him uneasily. She miserable Z
for him She did not know that there times when the
emotions potent than the subtest Wines Nor
that the male of is moved thus
exhibition of defiance the impress
ing of the chosen female Of the species.
Emmy Lou merely knew that she miserable and
trembled little boy
catered his slate until Miss Clara raped sharp
ly, boy staggering
around the to where sat the bucket and upper
And his return he came the center aisle between
sheep the goats
Emmy Lou had no idea what happened. place
behind another little girl who did.
A little girl who boosted curs yellow curls in TERED rows
lachrymosal little girl who affected great
horror of the little boys.
Emmy failed to this: The little
boy passing deftly lifted cherished curl between finger
and thumb and proceeded on his way.
The little girl did not fail the little boy. In the sud
dnness the surprise she surprised him by her out
cry. jumped. Emmy jumped. And the
sixy-nne jumped And following this the little girl lifted
her voice in achrymal lament.
Miss Clara sat erect The primer class held its breath
always breath when Miss Clara erect Emmy
tightly her desk beside. She wondered what
about.
Then spoke. the silence
BILLY Traver!"
Billy stood boy
"Since you pleased to yourself with the
Billy, the pegs!''
Emmy rembed. go pegs"' What
known nquorial error lay behind those dread aconic
words Emmy Lou
She could only sit and watch the boy
stump aisle around the to where
along wall hung of feminine apparel.
Here he stopped and scanned the line Then he paused
a round little hat with silky
a curling had rosetes to keep the
tied beneath the chin. 1t Emmy Louis
Cordeia had cautioned her to care concern
ing it.
The little boy There seemed to be
doubt in mi to Clara But them
had been in the primer class from the beginning
Having the down, he proceeded to put it
His face it's broad and constant
said the little boy enjoying
affair." AS he the hat the sixtynine laughed.
The SEVENTEEN did not 1t her hat and beside she
understand.
Clara erect, spoke again. since
little girl get book Billy and over with
girls"
Nor did Emmy Lou understand why, when Billy, having
gathered belongings the aisle
and sat down with her, the sixty nine laughed again.
Emmy do laugh. for Billy
understand when Billy treated her to a
slow and supperous wink his freced countenance grin
ming beneath the roseted hat. 1t could have
% Emmy Billy had laid his cunning plans
this end. Emmy Lou understood nothing of all
this She only pitied Billy And presently, when public
become diverted she profered him the hos
pitality a grimy slaterag. When Billy
there something in it-something wrapped
a beautiful. glazed shining bronze 1t
candy kiss One paid cents for six OF them at the drug
store
On the road home, Emmy candy
beautiful shiny that she found within she carried
Cordea sticky and it smeared But
reading it.
printing" said Aunt cordelia. Cant
read it,
Emmy shook her head -.s
"Try," Katie.
"The easy words" said Aunt Louise.
Emmy remembering cat, pussy, shook her
Aunt Cordelia looked troubled "She certainly isn't
catching up" Then read from the
slip paper
ooh, woman. woman,
OF invade"
auntes laughed, but Emmy Lou put it with
the glazed paper primer meant quite much
did the reading in that primer: Cat cat the
It the jingle to both
that appealed Emmy Lou.
this
She heard that February things
peculiar 18th At the little girls locked
and talked valentines The echoes reached Emmy
valentines from little boy, or it wasn't
the thing. And to get valentine dreadful
dreadful thing timidest the sheep began
to cast eyes at the goats
Emmy would valentine. And
1 how survive the contumey and shame?