The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-06-30

ways happens that way--the one who
plans a thing not only has to do all the
thinking. but he has to go and carry
out his own idea while the other people
tand and look on. or maybe ven make
fun of aim.
way" l said. IN read it outside her
door at I o'clock tomorrow morning,
and when I get through you must all
raise a mighty shout. like the people
did outside the palace Of the king at
the time OF the French revolution, and
you must yell. Down with the tryrant-
ess! Off with her head!' and things
like that. and Gregory Is to have the
servants dinner bell and ring like mad:
ana then all the rest of the day we're
going to do Just as we please, n If
she calls we won't come. not matter
how loud she hollers.".
The rest all thought 1t was a bully
Idea, but Charley said:
Hadn't we better do 1t after break
fast? Because it's griddle-cake tomor-
row morning. and we mightn't get
any"
SO we decided to start in being revo-
~lutloniSts after breakfast instead of be-
fore. After breakfast, while were sup
posed to be upstairs making our beds,
Miss Saunders sits in the library for
about half an hour, reading the morn
10 NSNH eiANA lit"l Nould pS d SoOo
chance to read the declaration to her.
All through breakfast the next norm
Ing we were awfully glum and nerv-
ous. Before we got to the griddle
cakes. l forgot n left my spoon in
my chocolate. and my arm went
against 1t quite accidentally. and the
whole cur got spilled on Hester, Just
as she was STOPPING to pick up a piece
or toast, and went all over the back
of the guiInpe of her dress. And Miss
Saunders swallowed whatever she put
in her mouth in a great hurry, and
took off her eyeglasses and pushed her
chair bgek fr9m the table a little and
IN that awfully quiet voice that is
twice as mad as when a person let's
out a yell:
Arthur, how often have l told you
never to leave your spoon in your cup?
This is the second time within a week
that this has occurred; you may go
up In your room n remain there un-
til l come"
didn't know what to do, because
If l went upstairs then it would knock
our plan Of reading the declaration In
the head. And while l was rolling up
my napkin as slowly as l could, trying
to think what l should do, her voice
broke in:
Come. Arthur, l am waiting
Then l put my napkin down and
stood up in my chair. Her eyes near
ly bulged out of her head at that, be-
cause of all the forbidden things in
he house. standing on any Of the
chairs but the ones in the kitchen and
thep layroom is about the forbiddenest.
Why. you-you bad little boy, you'll"
she gasped. Arthur, l don't under
stand"
But l just pulled the Declaration Of
Independence out Of my pocket and
began to read. I read all the things
that she woul not let US do, and was
just getting to the place where it said
we meant to Go as we pleased till
mamma and papa came home. 1 hadn't
been loking at her. because Ii was
as much as l could do % out
Charles writing. And, besides, some
OF the things. when you came to read
them out loud to the person they We're
intended for, sounded pretty dreadful
particularly where it said. Shes
just awful every way you can think
of" my cheeks felt kind of hot when
l got to those places, and l let my voice
down and hurried over them as fast as
l could. She must have come behind
while l was trying to make out some
OF the hard words, which l don't think
and he others all agreed with me
afterwards-was quite a Fair advan-
tage to take. And she used to be on
he basketball team when she was in
college, and she vas awfully strong. 1t
Is no disgrace to be ~overpowered by
such a strong person, and carried up
stairs, and locked in your room-and
then to be told through the keyhole
that o are to stay there until you
are sorry. suppose la Is the way
George the Third would have treated
John Hancock If he could.